Not just another book on the theory of strategic planning, here are dozens of recipes for creative group activities to facilitate strategic planning in any organization. Designed for use by consultants, facilitators, and management team leaders, step-by-step instructions guide you through exercises for gaining employee and management participation, gathering feedback from management about the current state of the organization, creating an organized mission, vison and values statement, and planning so that the vision becomes reality. Ready-to-use reproducible materials and handouts are also included.

High Impact Tools and Activities for Strategic Planning: Creative Techniques for Facilitating Your Organization's Planning Process

Business & Money

Sanaghan, Patrick

Napier, Rod

Sidle, Clint

Industries

McGraw–Hill Education

In higher education, almost 80 percent of strategic plans for campuses don't get implemented. This is despite a great deal of time, money, effort, and resources. How to Implement Your Campus Strategic Plan is your guide to effective practices that initiate strategic change. Including protocols tested in over 50 schools across the United States, this practitioner's manual for successful strategic implementation and execution will benefit your institution and those within it. You'll discover: <ul> <li>Thirteen strategic planning implementation mistakes to prevent wasted allocation of time, funds, and resources.</li> <li>Informal and practical surveys to evaluate organizational culture, implementation capacity, and boundary management.</li> <li>Eight powerful and collaborative meeting designs that create the meaningful engagement of stakeholders, encourage honest feedback, and delegate responsibility of formulated solutions to the right parties.</li> <li>The Push Agenda, a prioritization process for the final year objectives of a strategic plan that reenergizes stakeholders and enables them to " finish well."</li> <li>An engaging, inclusive, five-phase process with an 80 percent rate of goal accomplishment for over 50 institutions.</li> </ul> Improve the chances of strategy-based goal achievement for your school and your mission. Get How to Implement Your Campus Strategic Plan now for more effective and collaborative strategic planning that facilitates abiding change.

How To Implement Your Campus Strategic Plan: A "Practitioner's" Guide

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Courageland Publishing

Teams that are "pretty good" don't cut it in today's world. You need an exceptional team to handle the complex, highly ambiguous, and often daunting challenges facing organizations now. This practitioner's guide is packed with processes, designs, tools, and models, a diagnostic instrument and good old fashioned advice from two leadership experts.

Creating the Exceptional Team: A Practitioner's Guide

Eberbach, Kimberly

Management & Leadership

H R D Press

Effective communication is at the heart of leadership.The Communication Styles for Leaders survey is easy to take and will provide you with a description of your strongest communication style or your communication preference. A deep understanding of your style will enable you to play to the strengths of your style and be conscious about mitigating your weaknesses. We all have weaknesses regarding our communication style. The key is understanding how your weakness can get in your way and strategizing how to avoid our communication pitfalls.You can also use this survey to better understand the diverse communication skills of the members of your team or workgroup. You will learn through this survey that people communicate very differently. The key leadership question then is "How do I use my communication differences as assets and not have them become liabilities?" Leaders need to be able to use the many communication gifts that their people bring to the table and not let their differences get in the way.We have worked with hundreds of teams and groups and have found that a team can go downhill quickly when communication breaks down. People start making assumptions about each other (usually negative ones), judge others' intentions, and begin to debate the issues rather than using dialogue and inquiry to discuss them. In short, it gets messy and ugly fast. This Communication Style survey will help you gain insight into the complexity of communication and learn how to leverage this knowledge to build a great team.

The S2P2 Communication Styles Survey for Leaders

Phillips, Stephanie

In higher-ed, there is a widely-held myth that the smartest person in the room should lead. We take for granted that someone who is smart can lead, and when we don't take steps to prepare or develop our people for leadership positions, leaders are more likely to derail. This is a problem, because college and university leaders at all levels increasingly face complex challenges without easy solutions. They are navigating unknown territory. When we lead in the absence of a map, often we rely too heavily on what we already know or think we know well. We fall back on tradition, losing sight of the creativity and the risks we need to take now. We rely more heavily on "smartship" than leadership. We are especially prone to this tendency in higher education because of the unique weight we assign to hierarchy and tradition. This tendency leads to four destructive dynamics, and Pat Sanaghan's new book explores these four in depth and offers specific strategies for countering them. These four include: Derailment of the leader - wherein leaders are often promoted on the basis of academic prowess or past achievement but lack the management training, development, and support needed to succeed. Seduction of the leader - wherein leaders incorrectly believe they are receiving accurate intel about what is happening within their division. Arrogance - wherein we over-emphasize and reward individual achievement rather than encourage leaders to seek broad input and approach complex issues as a team endeavor. Micromanagement - wherein the risk averse culture of higher ed fosters leadership patterns that emphasize control and predictability rather than the risk taking, courage, and empowerment of one’s people that leadership in today’s higher education requires. EARLY REVIEWS FOR THE BOOK: "Pat Sanaghan has done an excellent job of identifying the unique characteristics of executive positions in higher education and offering a learning agenda that will assure success for university and college leaders. This book should be required reading for any president, and deserves a place on every leader's desk in higher education." - Bob Kustra, President Emeritus, Boise State University "Noting that the academy usually fails to select and prepare leaders with the right traits and experiences, Sanaghan's book is masterful at not only helping leaders prevent derailment and failure, but also at helping new and experienced leaders succeed. This is a wonderful keep-by-your-side manual for higher-ed leaders." - Rebecca Chopp, Chancellor, University of Denver

How Higher Ed Leaders Derail: A Survival Guide for Leaders

Lohndorf, Jillian

Academic Impressions

Why so many abrupt presidential exits? And how can we prevent them? 
There are hundreds of presidential transitions taking place every year, but many are doomed to derail early. Why is this? Often, it’s because attention is paid only to the initial hire and transition. Though the search process is important in selecting a new president, it is merely one component in a larger integration process that will make or break a presidential tenure. If we are to prevent presidential derailments, then the integration needs to be explicit, strategic, well-executed, and monitored and owned by campus leaders, especially by the governing board. 
Drawing on research into hundreds of presidential transitions, filled with strategies that have been tested at colleges and universities, and written by a leading leadership consultant with contributions from former and current presidents, From Presidential Transition to Integration provides an in-depth handbook to setting up a new presidency for success. It is a must-read for aspiring presidents, boards, and executive search and transition committees.

From Presidential Transition to Integration: Strategies to Avoid Early Derailment

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