• First You Need a Planning Process that will Produce a Great Plan
• At the front end of the Process you need to understand and implement the key business building strategies that produce the best results.
• You must have a clear set of ground rules that will work for every planning session.
• Your facilitator must be well trained and know how to keep the team moving through the process.
• The process must provide a template that makes it easy to write your plan.
• The planning methodology must address the ten most common problems that make planning fail.
• You need a process that will prioritize the high level initiatives based on the plan and the define the resources needed to address the plan
• The process must get everyone’s buy in.
• You must know in advance How to Execute Your Strategic Plan
• You must be able to assign responsibility/accountability to the right person
• How to do plan updates and when are critical to execution
• You need to celebrate milestones and know when to celebrate.
• How can you recognize a good plan?
• What are the telltale signs that the team is going off track?
• How to get the team back on plan?

These are some of the tools in our process that are provided to improve the likelihood that you have developed an effective plan and you know how to Strategically Execute Your Plan.