Success Planning: A 'How-To' Guide for Strategic Planning

From the Author

If you own a small business or run a nonprofit or community-based group, you may know you need a plan. You may not have the resources to hire an experienced consultant to help you develop and, more importantly, execute a robust strategic plan. Now you have the help you need. Success Planning: a 'how-to' guide for strategic planning leads you through each step of the process and provides you with basic tools, techniques and forms. The guide shows you how to implement you plan, track your results and make adjustments as needed.

A mid-sized company or department in a larger company can use this guide successfully to create and execute a plan. We have included special instructions for adapting the guide for nonprofits, IT departments and individuals.

Consultants will also find the guide useful. You can provide your customers with a proven methodology that will be easy for them to follow and for you to coach them through.

All of the material has been used successfully for many years, is practical and helps you get results.

From the Inside Flap

What our customers are saying about Success Planning:

When our old business paradigm failed as our industry was changing, Rebecca's system of analysis and action, Success Planning, helped our management team turn things around. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in establishing a better business focus. -- Timothy M. Winger, President, Novelty Manufacturing

Success Planning is a remarkably detailed and concise expression of what we needed to learn and implement in order to succeed at the next level of corporate growth. -- Dennis E. Willman, Chairman, York Container Company

Dr. Staton-Reinstein's approach to strategic planning creates a forum for effective, profitable ideas from everyone and helps us make informed decisions, whether big or small. Her system, Success Planning, eliminates confusion about where we are going as a company and gives us a way to measure, so we know we're on track. Strategic planning provides us a mechanism to enhance entrepreneurship. -- Steve Hayworth, CEO, Gibraltar Bank.