Some Benefits of Strategic Planning
When Done With Teams

• Establishes and focuses on priorities
• Integrates and coordinates
• Provides guidelines for annual operational planning and budgeting
• Better allocates resources
• Saves time
• Gets away from crisis management
• Creates a culture of anticipation and innovation rather than one of reaction and defensiveness
• Causes communication and understandings which otherwise wouldn't occur
• Builds teams
• Develops more professional managers
• Quantifies accountability (e.g. through Objectives and Action Plans)
• Provides for reviews of implementation
• Generates personal and group commitment
• Makes things happen