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Featured Post
Product NewsA Perfectly Planned ICMA Conference: Planning & Performance Pig’s Guide to Tampa 2025
Read MoreHello, friends of strategic alignment and public transparency!
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Strategic Planning
9 Best Practices for Communicating a Strategic Plan
ContentsTip 1: Take your time, don’t rushTip 2: Perfection is not realisticTip 3: Plan to communicate long-termTip 4: Consistency is…
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Performance Management8 Best Practices for Your Employee Recognition Program
Contents1. Collaborate with your team, define your process2. Get your creative juices flowing3. Introduce a director of culture4. Take a…
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Strategic Planning
9 Strategic Planning Questions City Managers Should Ask Their Teams
ContentsAre you prepared for a swot analysis?Here are 9 questions our municipal customers always ask their teams As a City…
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Strategic Planning
The City Manager’s Playbook: 10 Questions Every Council Member Will Ask You
Contents10 questions every city manager should be prepared to answer:What now? Developing a strategic plan for your municipality not only…
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Strategy Execution
5 Tips for Improving Strategy Execution
ContentsPlan for what won’t changeStep 1: Project alignmentStep 2: ManagementStep 3: CommunicationStep 4: Employee alignmentStep 5: Rewards and recognitionCan you…
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Strategic Planning
The Journey to Becoming a Great Leader
ContentsThe blind sideThe experts weigh in…The missing link: emotional intelligenceHow do you stack up?Wait a minute…Overrated Vs. underrated: how do…
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Strategic Planning
How to Measure the Success of Your Strategic Plan
Contents1. Clear objectives2. Efficiency3. Quality4. Accuracy5. Change management: Leaving behind the status quoHow do your staff play a role in…
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Strategic Planning
How to Optimize Strategic Planning with the Balanced Scorecard
ContentsWhat is the balanced scorecard approach?How does the balanced scorecard approach work?1. Balanced scorecard approach: The customer2. Balanced scorecard approach:…
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Strategic Planning
The Art of Effective Operational Planning
ContentsThe ideal situationDefine operational initiativesTake baby stepsDetermine the necessary resourcesTechnology as a potential solutionBudget planningAlways look at the big pictureCommunicate…
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Performance Management
10 Characteristics That Define Great Leadership
Contents1. Keep calm and carry on2. Learn to think ahead3. Stay organized4. Take a preventive approach to problem solving5. Lead…
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Strategic Planning
5 Ways to Sell Innovation and Organizational Change
ContentsEmbracing change management strategies1. Recognize and embrace the need for change2. Work on your timing3. Know what you’re doing4. Get…
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Strategic Planning
3 Killers of Strategic Planning
Contents1. Mistaking aimless productivity for strategic accomplishment2. Getting caught up in deciding what’s important3. Not recognizing the need to act…
