Worksheet 40. Rewards and Threats for Your Agency's Top Executives.

Focus on how to make strategic planning a rewarding activity for your agency's director and other top executives. What can you do to maximize the rewards and minimize the threats?

What can you do to encourage your agency's director to take a lead role in the design of the strategic planning, and to be positively recognized for this? ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................

What can you do to learn exactly what your director wants from the planning? How can you set up the planning so that these needs will be met? ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................

How will you keep your director informed of progress and problems during all stages of the planning process? ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................

How will you give your director positive recognition for the successes that come out of the planning process? ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................

What else should you do to create a positive administrative and psychological setting so that your agency's leaders will gladly claim "ownership" of the planning? ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................................