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Strategic planning can yield less-than-desirable results if you experience planning pitfalls. To prevent that from happening, avoid the following common traps:
Leaving out key players. A strategic plan needs to account for all individuals, teams, and entities that have a stake in the organization’…
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Preparation is the key to successful strategic planning, and the following ideas will get you started.
Secure full commitment from key people in your organization. Ensure that you have support for strategic planning from your organizational leadership. Creating buy-in within the team will…
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Strategic planning is “a deliberate, disciplined approach to producing fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization or collaborative is, what it does, and why.”[1] It is the systematic process of bringing key people together to envision a desired future and develop…
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Now that you know where you are and where you want to be, the next step is to identify the organization’s strategic issues and the key policy levers or challenges that need to be addressed. Generally, these strategic issues are ones that an organization can do something about. The analysis or…
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Take the Temperature
Taking the temperature in a situation is about better understanding where the heat is high (conflict, pain, a lot of disequilibrium) or low (where people are bored or checked out). All of these signal the need for leadership.
Questions to Ask Yourself
What’s the temperature…
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Explore Tough Interpretations
Exploring tough or uncomfortable interpretations means pushing beyond people’s opinions and conclusions, especially the ones that come automatically, almost unconsciously. You may need to get more skeptical or keep an open mind. You may need to thoughtfully question…
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Distinguish Technical and Adaptive Work
Adaptive work tends to be a problem, issue, or opportunity that requires more learning and understanding about the situation. This is when your expertise is not enough when a checklist or another technical tool won’t make the problem go away. Addressing an…
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If you are trying to make progress on a tough issue, understanding what you are getting into is critical. The biggest leadership mistake people make is misdiagnosing the situation. In the field of medicine, a huge amount of professional skill, talent, and energy are given to identifying the problem…
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South Carolina
South Carolina: First Steps Every Child Ready 2020–2025 Strategic Plan
Used with permission: South Carolina First Steps. (2020). Every Child Ready 2020–2025 Strategic Plan. https://www.scfirststeps.org/ media/itrluenr/strategic-plan-2020-2025.pdf
Alaska
Early Childhood Alaska:…
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The adaptive leadership framework within this chapter—key ideas, principles, competencies, and dimensions—has been used with permission from the author of the book, Your Leadership Edge, Ed O’Malley[1]
"It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when…
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