Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Facilitating Strategic Planning Meetings: A Strategy Consultant's Guide
    Facilitating Strategic Planning Meetings: A Strategy Consultant's Guide
    Facilitating Strategic Planning Meetings: A Strategy Consultant's Guide
    Ebook133 pages1 hour

    Facilitating Strategic Planning Meetings: A Strategy Consultant's Guide

    By Bill Birnbaum

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    The person responsible for facilitating a strategic planning meeting faces a multi-dimensional challenge. Certainly, he or she must keep the planning team on track so that their resultant product is a viable, implementable strategic plan. The facilitator must also assure that a room full of highly opinionated individuals will set aside their day-to-day tasks to focus on their organization’s most critical, long-term issues. And often, the facilitator must guide the planning team’s discussion of critically important, though highly sensitive issues.

    This is the challenge which author Bill Birnbaum faced in 1980 when he launched his strategy consulting practice. As there existed no book which would help him navigate this complex challenge, he developed a number of his own methodologies. Since 1980, he has successfully used those methodologies to facilitate strategic planning meetings for hundreds of client organizations. It’s ironic in a way, that a third of a century later, Bill has written the book which he searched for in 1980. Here you have, in some 24,000 words and 20 diagrams, the essence of what Bill has learned in successfully facilitating strategic planning meetings during these last three decades.

    From this book, you will learn:
    •The one question to ask at the very start of your strategic planning meeting – to initiate lively, strategic-level discussions among your planning team members.
    •How to get your strategic planning team to focus on their organization’s key strategic issues and avoid getting bogged down in tactical details.
    •The two criteria to use in determining whether or not a suggested internal strength is really an internal strength – so that the strength can later be successfully used to support your strategy.
    •How to be sure that a suggested internal weakness is really an internal weakness. For all too often strategic planning teams confuse weaknesses with symptoms of weaknesses. Remember – you can‘t fix a symptom. And before you can fix a weakness, you first have to identify that weakness.
    •A valuable tool for consolidating your strategic planning team’s diverse opinions about their organization’s mission statement. In fact, you’ll learn how to facilitate your planning team’s development of their mission statement in three hours or less.
    •How to avoid the common mistake of confusing an external opportunity with a strategy.
    •How much detail to include in your strategies. For too much detail will present a problem; too little detail will present a worse problem.
    •Why and how to challenge your planning team members when they’re setting due dates for their strategies.
    •A suggested table of contents of the written strategic plan.
    •Options for communicating the resultant strategic plan to others in the organization.

    This book serves as a guide for those responsible for facilitating strategic planning meetings. You’ll find it to be equally helpful for both the internal “strategic planning person,” and the external strategy consultant. Whether internal or external, the facilitator faces the multi-dimensional challenge of guiding the organization’s strategic planning team through the process of developing a viable, implementable strategic plan. Bill Birnbaum’s time-tested methodologies will be of help to you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBill Birnbaum
    Release dateApr 11, 2016
    ISBN9781932632040
    Facilitating Strategic Planning Meetings: A Strategy Consultant's Guide
    Author

    Bill Birnbaum

    For over three decades, I’ve worked with senior management teams helping them develop a shared strategic vision for their organization and then turn that vision into a sound business strategy. For 20 years, I published and edited the Business Strategies Newsletter. I’ve authored a number of strategy books including “Strategic Thinking: A Four Piece Puzzle,” currently in its fifth printing. Also for 20 years, I taught strategy courses for the American Management Association including: •The Strategic Planning Course •Strategy Implementation (I developed this course for the AMA) •Thinking and Managing Strategically I also developed The Strategic Planning WorkshopTM, a hands-on program to prepare senior management teams to develop their strategic plan. I’ve conducted that program for hundreds of organizations and thousands of senior and mid-level managers. I’ve served on the board of directors for three high-growth corporations, all of which were acquired per the plan I help them develop. •ISR Corporation •Trans-met Engineering •Woodroof Laboratories I’m certified as a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) by the Institute of Management Consultants. I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration. In 2007, I lived and worked as a business consultant in Abancay, Peru, helping entrepreneurs and university students stimulate economic development in this poor region of the Peruvian Andes. I lectured at both UNAMBA and UTEA Universities and wrote for Nuevo Management Journal. I speak, read and write Spanish, and have traveled extensively in Spain, Mexico and South America. Now semi-retired, I work with a few select clients from time to time. I continue to write on the subject of business strategy development and implementation and also offer critique of strategic plans and strategic planning processes.

    Read more from Bill Birnbaum

    Related to Facilitating Strategic Planning Meetings

    Related ebooks

    Strategic Planning For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    Related categories

    Reviews for Facilitating Strategic Planning Meetings

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Facilitating Strategic Planning Meetings - Bill Birnbaum

      Ncbook_preview_excerpt.htmlYn7~W) +NZt[H!MkNA/J5g8!9ի^I;?uX,РD};?_]l}FV 68VW❑]GUyr/xm;? A{Wq]C{r;;l u' k}C:֯v2SqC_~ ثe+ncO⛿|}/^~˳/+8)ܽ'+z邰;ʽX+ꝭJ:;+)X.2"kUH,*3䖾V,pe =;z ~:UഺF;;Α>kt QqVno^\Np|F.s.W7XZ{V]d$^Nb :>7)ۃJ<(?Ct骓f`~)l-N.~=)jM޽F禂TyF#7^e֖Dȅ/8λFuS-VmOLhwIVqHb a~J`'~y/J{r`&F&x $kc}D0ZUBq/=L3uS1)^]0X>d9c^K7}o]:_0zĵ0rj!$(|ުP5G@Htq;;Zl[E7rc 6G>v6pYm̼} u8fgF9 gwv?Aa%0fhd\i3,A̺-7k$n(yGNVPѡqJ8b!,(:3̋c9fDv(N{,m<wTP'BٟB IկW7)$#=4jB,}Գ`?Z\ݠ;1Ii6@rgeM|$ dC!d {p2Dq6HqP]Űg ZKdTԸPF51ODj[:q#'ej2靵j]Gɛ3[{dMK@\lhP4.wK*~4A|؃_0U5a,!yz@ qwT5Ċ ީإHHةd0'4Ev5x^˵(ѯJj^R=,׀;X Y˞C_ ĺHm2lx(I:AY #&dP '@KZ%]jPX-pGEaہ;ꥸZI!K <5ZÂ !wxcM"qRTˀ&l%|qTЭGt)~h$">z Z{5<+{fZ˭_,rcQO5[A|$%b2Qnf)BcŚM9 ulE<7MO?_ Z4`-,ZnqS}q+j;!~^i[IͭUE5+]X?"ډV貛`RCO rK ᳤gn rז{OzOk-Y!h 7:BAlY<Y3@|4̬6=ڷNs*: }*`)xv+,B1B@mY n :b tQGѤ w!iS+A[,!Hs'o;IRyɉmc+ wp4Ŀ4 *,~E^O%`PDyco*DÓD({mM\J;#]^YY\-\kS}69%mgm73^){۩XLAֶKq|Q Pl%;LMr1a}$@*]Ae6Ji'K/Km (@oǛ?:Ih;QK5m$[Ub-Qc1HLR凗Wmf&9!M8 [Ui}UioLT }"RͿz6Qҩ]9"ѸxLI:4|4qۑgr=ƐsoyV3c8hT{ #q7^YZIFO; oDCl6# e E+W!7+#dG"a+<)¹dw L pP.9{lbN9 9xp@ vnٟܙuEV$VfR{O_ϭaUPP4h7wy.-Rʸe=H<AQ8vp߶yf*O+˝d];^<1Wi+1oMK7}ʞ9.N'0ݣ#ܵ;V=OtނK 4hwK'4b3/ Wêp;T i$JXxalľA -??]?g 'l6=[qf@<0+ʳW74XfGyJM}s?=ۣrZ < #+$"G0c(ZydkKN(}R 9@z 91ȸbjaKqFf,_dNePi>>,ˊtc_*wVj]agG3E3$'*?56mƎ"x~rLbRÇ$ dقDhf_
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1