Planning Approach Articles

Core Competency: Planning Changes Minds, Not Simply Make Plans

Facilitating a planning session makes you a change agent. Because even President Eisenhower (then General) was known to say, “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but...

Decision Types: Understanding the Time and Place for Individual or Group Decisions

The continuum of leadership behavior provides one context for understanding the best time and place for individual decisions versus group decisions. That continuum, as illustrated below, ranges from...

A Simple Planning Agenda for Agreeing on WHO Does WHAT by WHEN

Any type of descriptive or prescriptive plan, process, or series of activities can then be illustrated with a simple process flow diagram. A process flow diagram describes WHO does WHAT by WHEN, in...

Group Decision-Making: Focus on Strategic, Operational, OR Tactical Issues

Scope creep wreaks havoc on projects and group decision-making. Meetings also spin out of control because the leader allows the co-mingling of strategic, operational, AND tactical issues. Each...

Appreciative Inquiry — A Facilitative Path for the Future

Jul 9, 2015 | Planning Approach

Organizations seeking to change HOW they work use consider Appreciative Inquiry. The Appreciative Inquiry approach...

Core Competency: Planning Changes Minds, Not Simply Make Plans

May 7, 2015 | Meeting Support, Planning Approach

Facilitating a planning session makes you a change agent. Because even President Eisenhower (then General) was known...

Decision Types: Understanding the Time and Place for Individual or Group Decisions

Apr 30, 2015 | Decision Making, Planning Approach

The continuum of leadership behavior provides one context for understanding the best time and place for individual...

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