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Strategic Planning Sequence Explained
Don't get lost in the details: The importance of keeping your strategic planning simple.
Strategic planning follows a sequence to identify key strategies that align with an organisation's vision, scenario planning and...
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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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Focus on Key Strategies
Focus on the few: The power of prioritizing key strategies.
Strategic planning should focus on 2-4 key strategies, rather than trying to address too many at once.
These key strategies should help drive the company...
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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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Unpacking Vision for Strategy
Why Your Vision Statement Needs to Go Beyond Just Words
The most effective way to reach agreement on a vision and purpose is not to focus on specific words, but rather on the guidance and strategic conversations it...
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Planning for strategic conversations
Elevate Your Annual Strategic Conversations with a Comprehensive Board Workplan.
A board work plan helps directors and senior executives plan strategic conversations, allowing them to consider the future of the...
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Clarify Agenda Items Ahead
Get Clarification Before the Meeting
A Smart Strategy for Directors.
Petitioning the Chair: A Way for Directors to Influence the Agenda
The Chair and CEO can hold pre-board meetings with directors to clarify agenda...
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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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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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Charting Success: Board Commitments
Setting the Standard: Our Board's Commitments for the Coming Year.
Transparency is Key: Let directors know what's expected of them.
Provide a table outlining expected commitments for new directors as part of their...
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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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