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Strategy Creates Future
Making a difference: The purpose of strategy.
Strategy is about creating the future and making a difference, not just an exercise.
It involves considering possible futures and continually working towards them with...
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Strategic Planning with Scenarios
Forward thinking: How scenario planning can help your organisation plan for the future.
Scenario planning should be a key part of good strategic planning as it helps organisations to focus on their vision and consider...
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Anticipating Change and Adapting
What's on the horizon?
Forecasting the strategic issues that will impact your organisation.
Envisioning the future: Key insights from senior executives and stakeholders.
Every few months, bring in executives or...
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Operating Plan Activates Strategy
Mastering the art of strategy: Three key elements for success.
There are three important elements in a long-term strategy: a vision or purpose, a strategic plan, and an operating plan.
The board is responsible for the...
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Vision Statement: Driving Force
The power of purpose: Your Vision Statement as a guide.
A vision statement helps to guide future planning by considering what the desired future outcome is and what needs to be done to achieve it.
Scenario planning...
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Continuous Strategy Review
The key to staying relevant: Ongoing strategic planning.
Strategic planning is an ongoing process that should be regularly reviewed and updated.
It should be discussed at board meetings and involve input from staff...
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Tips for your Strategy review
Get the most out of your Strategy review with these tips.
A planning day or review of a strategic plan can be helpful for a board to have a more strategic board meeting.
It can also be a good opportunity to have...
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Keep your Directors focused
Transform your board meetings with a focused agenda.
The purpose of a board agenda is to keep directors focused on making important decisions that will shape the future for the communities they serve.
It helps to...
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Apologies Only Accepted With Preparation
Meeting your duty of care as a director: Apologies are not a substitute for engagement and responsibility.
The necessity of reading Board papers and asking questions as a director.
A director's apology for not...
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Time-Saving Tool: Consent Agenda
Maximize meeting productivity and streamline decision making with a Consent Agenda.
The Consent Agenda is a technique that separates papers for decision making, discussion, and information only.
Items worthy of...
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Who Owns the Agenda?
Avoiding Micromanagement and Rabbit Holes: The Role of Board Agendas.
The chair of the board owns the agenda and controls the conversation at meetings, but should involve directors in determining what should be...
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Key Ratios and Board Reporting
Board reporting: Going beyond pretty charts and graphs.
Translating ratios into actionable insights for directors ratios can be useful for understanding financial performance, but it's important to know the acceptable...
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