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

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Summary: Just plain EXCELLENT!
Review: Great resource for getting people involved. Lot's of interesting, practical and creative ideas. Our organization isn't used to doing things different, but we used the ideas from this book and got Great results! They walk you through the thinking and design of these activities so you understand HOW to do them, and what results to expect. I highly recommend this book.

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Summary: Great book, What a surprise!!
Review: I didn't think this book was going to be good,boy was I wrong!This is easy to read and very interesting. Chock full ideas that work. If you have to do planning, get this book.

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Summary: Making the complex planning process practical.
Review: I found this material very practical and useful for my work as a manager in a growing industry. I am faced with an ever increasing need to plan with my staff in ways that are engaging and productive. This tool set allows me to do just that. I think it is a MUST for any leader today.

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Summary: Terrific, useable straight-forward approach.
Review: I found this to be the BEST book on planning I have ever read (and I've read a lot). Useable, clear, takes the mystique out of the process; a very manageable and accessible resource for the leader needing to do planning. I recommend it highly.

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Summary: I used these ideas to help plan a technology implementation
Review: I have been involved in a implementation for a year. The ideas in this book have been invaluable. We have involved over 2000 people in our project , and this book has been a major tool we have used successfully. Practical and interesting.

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Summary: This book shows you how to plan collaboratively. It's great
Review: I have been involved in a long , complicated planning process for over a year. We were making little progress , with no buy in from the stake holders. We have used this book to jump start the process. The activities really work! We were able to diagnose where things went wrong and get our people re-engaged. The authors understand planning very well and are able to show you ways to involve people without getting bogged down. I would recommend this to anyone who is responsible for planning. It was a godsend for me. Thanks!

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Summary: Invaluable tools for Organizational Planning
Review: I have had the opportunity to use the designs in this book over the past year. The designs or "strategic activities" are creative and guarnateed to advance the planning process for a wide range of organizations. The instructions have just the right amount of detail to adaquately prepare the facilitator. There is tremendous felxibility with each acitivity to accomodate longer or shorter amounts of time. The designs are
crip, imaginative, thoughtful, rooted in practice. Its a book I refer to again and again. Its been an invaluable tool to my work.

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Summary: Invaluable tools for Organizational Planning
Review: I have had the opportunity to use the designs in this book over the past year. The designs or "strategic activities" are creative and guarnateed to advance the planning process for a wide range of organizations. The instructions have just the right amount of detail to adaquately prepare the facilitator. There is tremendous felxibility with each acitivity to accomodate longer or shorter amounts of time. The designs are
crip, imaginative, thoughtful, rooted in practice. Its a book I refer to again and again. Its been an invaluable tool to my work.

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Summary: I work in Higher Education and we needed help with planning
Review: I read this book because we are engaged in a university wide planning process. Our goal was to make our planning interactive, so our people could share ideas across divisions and departments. The authors are excellent in showing how to Involve people. Great book

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Summary: A fascinating way to plan,you have made it interesting
Review: I really like this book. Although this is a long book, it is well worth the effort. There arelgreat ideas, that you can use in a variety of ways. My organization does a lot of planning, little of it is well done or interesting to our employees. This book gave us ways to involve our people and make it more meaningful. Most importantly, they take the mystique and complexity out of planning and show you how to get real results.