Todd R Christensen

Leading the Awesome Todd R Christensen

Follow the 9 steps Christensen clearly outlines to facilitate your upcoming strategic planning session. This second volume in a three-part series is an easy read with important principles and practical guides to running a successful strategic planning meeting. Whether you hold strategic planning sessions each year or this will be your first meeting, you will find clear and helpful information on these pages. If you decide to gather your board, executive and management teams, and other stakeholders for a strategic planning session without consulting this book, you will likely miss some critically important opportunities for success. Leading the Awesome will provide priceless ideas for the first time session facilitator and the experienced meeting leader alike. Step 1 addresses the critical importance of documenting your entire strategic planning process. Steps 2 through 4 take you through activities that have the participants creating or reviewing the organization's guiding statements, including its values, mission, and vision. Steps 5 through 7 provide specific ideas for creating your business's annual objectives, goals and tactical approaches making things happen. In fact, you will learn in step 6 how important SEEDS goals are and why they are the 21st century's response to SMART goals. Finally, steps 8 and 9 provide clear instructions for setting up the assignments and accountability system necessary to see your goals and tactics through to the end.