Filling the need for a "how-to," step-by-step guide to strategic planning, Strategic Action Planning NOW! outlines team-based planning in four steps. Gate Gable's techniques provide detailed guidance into planning processes, strategic skills, recognition of challenges, consideration of goals, monitoring and measurement, and implementation tips to help the reader begin the planning process almost immediately. Written in three parts, the author provides exercises with each chapter. Part one covers the pre-planning stages, defining who and what your team is and what your teams' goals are. The second part goes over the actual planning, identifying the challenges and setting the goals for your team. The third and final part deals with post planning, implementation and evaluating your team's progress.

Defining the fundamentals of building a risk management plan, Applied Risk Management in Agriculture uses strategic management to organize the process of risk management. A time-tested procedure inside and outside the business community, this technique provides an ideal platform for organizing risk.Making complex principles easily accessible to stu

Best Practices in Planning Strategically for Online Educational Programs is a step-by-step guide to developing strategic plans for creating and implementing online educational programs within higher education institutions. From conception to execution and assessment, the successful management of purposeful online educational programs in colleges and universities carries increasing importance and a unique set of requirements. This book enables administrators and faculty to: identify the opportunities and challenges presented by online education for institutions based on their histories, missions and market positions develop a roadmap for creating and implementing a strategic plan provide guidance for assessing the plan and insight into the iterative nature of planning. With computer networked-based technologies gaining ground in traditional private and public institutions, this critical volume is the first to apply the principles and practices associated with strategic planning specifically to online educational programs.

This book reviews major issues involved in achieving the objectives of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). Using a simple framework for evaluation, the analysis highlights considerations relevant to policymakers in the areas of poverty reduction, macroeconomic policies, trade promotion, attracting capital flows, and governance and institutional reforms. The analysis also identifies risks involved in achieving NEPAD's objectives. To minimize these risks, it will be important to make some goals more operational, to further broaden and deepen stakeholder participation, to establish a sound basis for monitoring progress, to prepare contingency plans, and to harmonize the role of regional institutions with NEPAD initiatives.

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This is the only book that gives bank managers the practical tools they need to become effective sales leaders and to develop a dynamic, successful sales culture. It builds on practices developed by the co-authors who argue that any financial institution can maximize profitability by combining the principles and practices of leadership with those of sales management and applying them to everyone in the organization. Topics discussed include: defining a strategy and vision; developing lines of communications; building relationships and empowering people; monitoring and tracking performance; coaching, directing, and controlling the sales force; and putting it all together by setting sales goals in motion.

This book offers a "... practical, useful, goal-oriented approach to developing strategies and implementing them for higher sales, profits, and shareholder value ..." Outlines a four-cycle approach that has been successfully used in more than 100 corporations.

Lots of books tell the reader to simply do what you love. In these turbulent times, more is needed. Targeting the Job You Want is a book that takes a pragmatic approach--do what you love, and also what the market needs. The book offers assessment exercises and stories of real people to help guide job searchers on their quest.