Q&A: Sharing about a Strategic Planning Process
What should we share about our strategic planning process with our stakeholders?
Impactful strategic planning is a community effort, not a leadership activity, so transparency should be built into every step of your strategic planning process.
One of your first activities when preparing to plan should be to develop a communications strategy that answers the following for each of your key stakeholder groups:
At which planning stage would we like to involve this group?
How will we inform them about the process, plan, and outcomes?
How will we get input from them?
More specifically, you may want to plan for sharing:
Information about the steps in your planning process
How your team and stakeholders will be asked to engage or offer input
An initial draft plan for stakeholder feedback
The final draft of your plan
Periodic updates on progress towards goal attainment.
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