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Managing The Tactical Aspects Of A Strategic Planning Process
- When you run your strategic planning process, it's important to be aware that there will be times you're working together as a team, and people are off on their own doing individual work. The typical cadence of a good strategic planning process will have people working individually doing some pre-work. Then you'll come together as a team and work on things like your vision, your mission, guiding principles. Then the team will go away and do individual work to evaluate some initiatives. They'll come back together to go through a prioritization meeting. They'll go away again as individuals and do deeper analysis on initiatives, and come back together to do final planning and resource allocation.
And the deliverables that come out of this strategic planning process will be a strategic plan in the form of a document. You'll have a defined set of core competencies for what your organization is great at, you'll have a prioritized list of initiatives that you're going to pursue, and an implementation and sequencing plan where you'll identify which initiatives, when, and what resources are we going to allocate. Now, I'll cover all of these tools in future chapters of this course, but just remember that your planning process is going to be a balance between working together and working as individuals.