Creating Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations

The practical companion workbook to the field's standard reference on strategic planning

Creating Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Fourth Edition, is the hands-on companion to the widely recognized standard reference in strategic planning. Designed by leading scholars John M. Bryson and Bert George, this workbook helps practitioners and students work through exactly how to think, act, and learn strategically in their specific organizational contexts.

This updated edition provides detailed worksheets that guide users through every stage of the strategic planning process. Drawing on the conceptual framework from Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Sixth Edition, it translates theory into actionable steps. New multimedia instructor resources, blank templates, and internationally relevant content expand its practical utility.

Readers will also find:

• Step-by-step worksheets for identifying and addressing key organizational challenges through structured strategic planning exercises
• Practical tools for stakeholder analysis, environmental assessment, and strategy formulation tailored to public and nonprofit sector contexts
• Resources designed to help teachers and executive educators incorporate strategic planning concepts into their courses
• Templates and frameworks tested by practitioners globally and used in executive education programs at leading universities
• New international content reflecting strategic planning applications across diverse governmental and nonprofit settings worldwide

An invaluable resource for public administrators, nonprofit executives, consultants, and students in public affairs programs, Creating Your Strategic Plan provides the practical tools needed to translate strategic planning theory into real-world organizational success.