Speaking with Strategic Impact

Speaking with Strategic Impact
Author: Kate LeVan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2017-05-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9780998975900

Speaking with Strategic Impact is for business people who make their living-or their mark-through presentations long and short. You'll get specific strategic and tactical advice to keep you on the mark in your presentations and meetings-and differentiate you from the vast majority of business presenters.

Engine of Impact

Engine of Impact
Author: William F. Meehan III
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2017-11-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1503603628

We are entering a new era—an era of impact. The largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history will soon be under way, bringing with it the potential for huge increases in philanthropic funding. Engine of Impact shows how nonprofits can apply the principles of strategic leadership to attract greater financial support and leverage that funding to maximum effect. As Good to Great author Jim Collins writes in his foreword, this book offers "a detailed roadmap of disciplined thought and action for turning a good nonprofit into one that can achieve great impact at scale." William F. Meehan III and Kim Starkey Jonker identify seven essential components of strategic leadership that set high-achieving organizations apart from the rest of the nonprofit sector. Together, these components form an "engine of impact"—a system that organizations must build, tune, and fuel if they hope to make a real difference in the world. Drawing on decades of teaching, advising, grantmaking, and research, Meehan and Jonker provide an actionable guide that executives, staff, board members, and donors can use to jumpstart their own performance and to achieve extraordinary results for their organization. Along with setting forth best practices using real-world examples, the authors outline common management challenges faced by nonprofits, showing how these challenges differ from those faced by for-profit businesses in important and often-overlooked ways. By offering crucial insights on the fundamentals of nonprofit management, this book will help leaders equip their organizations to fire on all cylinders and unleash the full potential of the nonprofit sector. Visit www.engineofimpact.org for additional information.

Strategic Impact

Strategic Impact
Author: Carol A. Poore, Ph.D.
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1632993171

Are you a senior executive, board member, emerging leader, or consultant responsible for leading a strategic plan that actually gets implemented and delivers results? ​Strategic Impact : A Leader’s Three-Step Framework for the Customized Vital Strategic Plan presents a trailblazing method that will help you guide and customize your organization’s strategic planning program. Dr. Poore delivers innovation through virtual strategy workshops, digital communication opportunities, and new, accessible cloud-based tracking systems. Strategic Impact provides a reliable, three-step framework, applicable to any organization, regardless of size, scale, or structure, allowing you to: • Declutter the typically complicated strategic planning process. • Deliver a destiny-shaping program in an efficient, budget-conscious way—including for mission-driven small businesses and nonprofits with limited resources. • Plan and lead a life-changing leadership workshop experience culminating in strategic goals. • Craft a compelling written strategic plan which can be digitized and communicated through social media. • Implement an effective tracking and communication system to monitor progress and ensure accountability. • Engage employees, customers, and key audiences in celebrating your organization’s strategic impact. Unlike other strategic planning books, Strategic Impact places intense focus on curating a vibrant, life-changing strategic planning workshop that strengthens leadership bonds and commitment for implementation. It simplifies the strategic planning process and ensures a clear, comprehensive, and customizable approach for you and your leadership team. Dr. Poore's emphasis on strategic goal implementation will amplify your organization’s ability to get it done, fulfill your mission and purpose, and achieve strategic impact!

Moments of Impact

Moments of Impact
Author: Chris Ertel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2014-02-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451697627

Two leading experts on designing strategic conversations unveil a simple, creative process that allows teams to tackle their most challenging issues. In our fast-changing world, leaders are increasingly confronted by messy, multifaceted challenges that require collaboration to resolve. But the standard methods for tackling these challenges—meetings packed with data-drenched presentations or brainstorming sessions that circle back to nowhere—just don’t deliver. Great strategic conversations generate breakthrough insights by combining the best ideas of people with different backgrounds and perspectives. In this book, two experts “crack the code” on what it takes to design creative, collaborative problem-solving sessions that soar rather than sink. Drawing on decades of experience as innovation strategists—and supported by cutting-edge social science research, dozens of real-life examples, and interviews with well over 100 thought leaders, executives, and fellow practitioners— they unveil a simple, creative process that leaders and their teams can use to unlock solutions to their most vexing issues. The book also includes a “Starter Kit” full of tools and tips for putting the book’s core principles into practice.

Strategic Conversations

Strategic Conversations
Author: J.-C. Spender
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2014-05-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107036194

Accessible and practical book providing a guide for building entrepreneurial workforces through carefully designed strategic conversations between management and employees.

Strategic Communication at Work

Strategic Communication at Work
Author: Diane Lennard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2018-03-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351863096

Strategic Communication at Work provides the reader with a practical approach to engaging in all types of communication—one-on-one, small group, and large group—to achieve intended results. The framework presented enables readers to make informed decisions that increase the effectiveness of their communication and enhance their credibility. Lennard presents the IMPACT Paradigm—Intending, Messaging, Presence, Attending, Connecting, and Together—in the first part of the book explaining the benefits of using a single framework for all strategic communication. The second part illustrates how to apply these principles and approach interactions with a purposeful mindset, express ideas congruently, and connect with others. The third part offers curated exercises for practicing communication skills, along with specific ways to integrate the paradigm into everyday communication interactions. The text’s clear and practical approach will appeal to graduate students of business communication, as well as instructors and professionals interested in improving their communication skills.

Storytelling with Data

Storytelling with Data
Author: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2015-10-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1119002265

Don't simply show your data—tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples—ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation. Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal don't make it any easier. This book demonstrates how to go beyond conventional tools to reach the root of your data, and how to use your data to create an engaging, informative, compelling story. Specifically, you'll learn how to: Understand the importance of context and audience Determine the appropriate type of graph for your situation Recognize and eliminate the clutter clouding your information Direct your audience's attention to the most important parts of your data Think like a designer and utilize concepts of design in data visualization Leverage the power of storytelling to help your message resonate with your audience Together, the lessons in this book will help you turn your data into high impact visual stories that stick with your audience. Rid your world of ineffective graphs, one exploding 3D pie chart at a time. There is a story in your data—Storytelling with Data will give you the skills and power to tell it!

Strategic Doing

Strategic Doing
Author: Edward Morrison
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2019-05-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119578612

Ten skills for agile leadership Complex challenges are all around us—they impact our companies, our communities, and our planet. This complexity and the emergence of networks is changing the practice of strategic management. Today’s leaders need to understand how to design and guide complex collaborations to accelerate innovation and change—collaborations that cross boundaries both inside and outside organizations. Strategic Doing introduces you to the new disciplines of agile strategy and collaborative leadership. You’ll learn how to design and guide complex collaborations by following a discipline of simple rules that you won’t find anywhere else. • Unleash the power of true collaboration • Learn and master the 10 skills of agile leadership • Apply individual skills to targeted situations • Introduces a new discipline of leadership strategy Filled with compelling case studies, Strategic Doing outlines a new discipline of leadership strategy specifically designed for open, loosely-connected networks.

Fierce Conversations (Revised and Updated)

Fierce Conversations (Revised and Updated)
Author: Susan Scott
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2004-01-06
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780425193372

Fully revised and updated—the national bestselling communication skills guide that will help you achieve personal and professional success one conversation at a time. The master teacher of positive change through powerful communication, Susan Scott wants you to succeed. To do that, she explains, you must transform everyday conversations at work and at home with effective ways to get your message across—and get what you want. In this guide, which includes a workbook and The Seven Principles of Fierce Conversations, Scott teaches you how to: • Overcome barriers to meaningful communication • Expand and enrich relationships with colleagues, friends, and family • Increase clarity and improve understanding • Handle strong emotions—on both sides of the table • Connect with colleagues, customers and family at a deep level Includes a Foreword by Ken Blanchard, the bestselling co-author of The One Minute Manager