Strategic Planning

Effective strategic planning will:

1. help an organization do a better job
2. focus its energy
3.ensure that members of the organization are working toward the same goals
4.assess and adjust the organization's direction in response to a changing environment

Strategic planning is a disciplined effort to produce fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what it does, and why it does it, with a focus on the future. (Adapted from Bryson's Strategic Planning in Public and Nonprofit Organizations)