Adapted from a Google Hangout Webinar, presented by Steven Bowman

Delivered as a link to a private YouTube video with learning resources attached (approximately 2hrs). You will need to be online to view this product.

This video is a guided tour of the way Steven Bowman has been teaching strategic planning for over 30 years with real examples and case studies throughout.

Topics Covered:

• A different way of looking at strategic planning
• Developing action plans to achieve the identified strategies
• What the most effective strategic planning team looks like
• How to use stakeholder community engagement programs
• How to engage an external planning teams and the five critical questions to ask (with tools for analysis)
• Ensuring buy-in form staff and stakeholders
• Strategic scenario planning for plausible futures and impact on business processes
• Organisational strength, weakness, opportunity and risk analysis (SWOR analysis)
• How to avoid making a bad strategic plan
• How to source a good facilitator 
• Tips to launch your strategic plan to the community
• How to use a Gantt chart / Dashboard reporting

Included Resources:

• Sample Board Agenda
• Sample Completed Strategic Plan
• Sample Strategic Plan Agenda
• Scenario Planning In Australia Academic Paper
• Building and Using Scenarios
• From Strategic Thinking to Strategic Action
• Provoking Strategic Conversation
• Strategic Thinking with Scenarios