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Bringing Your Strategic Plan to Life!

Tags: Best practices, budgeting, Business communication, CFO, Change management, Collaboration, Communication, dashboard, Employee engagement, execution, Gantt charts, Leadership, implementation, Management, Nonprofit, Strategic planning, quality improvement, stakeholders, Transparency, Tree Diagram, World Cafe

Most strategic plans are never implemented. Organizations may put a great deal of time and effort into creating a strategic plan and then neglect to implement it.

To paraphrase author Patrick Below, the purpose of planning is not to create plans. The purpose of planning is to create results.

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Collaboration in Action

Tags: Best practices, Business communication, Collaboration, Employee engagement, Healthy workplaces, Honesty, Human resources, Leadership, Management, Nonprofit, Strategic planning, Stress, Transparency

Collaboration in Action

We have an opportunity to get up to speed on today’s most pressing leadership and human productivity issues. Human resource leaders in the Madison area are collaborating to offer a day of hot topics  as part of a larger conference of the IPMA-HR Central regional conference. This collaborative learning event takes place on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at the Madison Marriott West. (The full IPMA-HR event runs June 6-9.)

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How Is Collaboration Going?

Tags: Best practices, Change management, Collaboration, Decision-making, Healthy workplaces, Leadership, Management, Nonprofit, Strategic planning

Thanks to the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, you can measure for free how well collaboration is going.

 

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