Running a Strategic Review (PDF Guide)
A strategic review is a chance to step back, test assumptions and choose a direction with confidence. Done well, it builds understanding and commitment across the organisation. Done badly, it produces a glossy document that changes nothing. This guide gives you a practical process for running a review that ends in real choices and a plan people can follow.
What's inside
- When and why to run a strategic review
- A 12-week review process, stage by stage
- Diagnosis: evidence, stakeholder voices and the critical challenge
- Generating and choosing strategic options
- The plan on a page and the first 100 days
- Governance, communication and keeping strategy alive
- A quick-start page, worked examples, troubleshooting, a glossary, checklists and worksheets
Who it's for
CEOs, headteachers and trust leaders, charity chief executives, senior leadership teams, boards, governors and trustees, and strategy leads.
Format
21-page A4 PDF. Written UK-first, with a page on using it in other countries.
Your digital edition
This listing is for the PDF guide. Read it on a compatible computer or tablet, or print pages for your own study. No physical book is supplied.
Put your learning into practice
Start with the area most relevant to your role or study, work through the practical tools, and return to the guide when planning your next steps.