<div><p><strong>Create a winning strategic plan!</strong></p><p>How do you reach your goals and make an impact when you're faced with funding cuts and increased competition? You'll find the answer in the <em>Strategic Planning Workbook</em>. With practical step-by-step guidance and worksheets to develop your own plan you'll learn how to:</p><ul><li>Solve a web of problems that are hard to address one-by-one</li><li>Build teamwork improve communication and boost managerial skills</li><li>Influence rather than be influenced-especially in this time of new federal cutbacks</li><li>Survive-even thrive-with fewer resources</li><li>Stimulate forward thinking and refocus your mission</li></ul><p>You'll gain a sense of direction that will guide your choices about which opportunities to pursue and which to avoid.</p><p><strong>New improvements make the workbook even more useful </strong></p><p>Written by national strategic planning expert Bryan Barry this updated edition builds on the original and adds new sections so that you get:</p><ul><li>Step-by-step guidance through the five planning phases and the critical ingredients of a sound plan</li><li>Information on how to create a shared vision of your nonprofit's future to guide staff in making everyday choices</li><li>Strategies to address problems and opportunities that the nonprofit sector now faces</li><li>A new more detailed sample of one nonprofit's actual three-year plan</li><li>Tips for implementing and updating your plan</li><li>Examples of how multiple organizations coalitions and communities can use strategic planning</li><li>Easy-to-complete worksheets to help you develop your own plan sell it to your colleagues and measure results</li></ul></div>