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Strategy, Leadership, Governance, Performance JOHN H. HYLTON & Associates Best Practices In Strategic Planning: Lessons From Three Regions Dr. John H. Hylton, FCCHSE, FACHE John H. Hylton & Assoc.

Strategic Planning Best Practices . . same old, same old • Make the decision to plan • Plan to plan • Review mission, vision and values • SWOT analysis • Identify strategic priorities • Consider alternatives and make decisions • Develop an implementation plan • Monitor and evaluate • Communicate and celebrate

The Problem Is . . . • 90% of healthcare organizations run without a plan • Of the 10% that have a plan, 90% fail to execute their strategies successfully • 86% of executive teams spend less than one hour per month discussing strategy • 95% of a typical workforce doesn’t understand its organization’s strategy • 60% of organizations don’t link strategy to budgeting • 75% of organizations don’t link employee incentives and performance management to strategy

The Leadership Challenge . . . • How to work with competing priorities and competing interests to make intelligent strategic choices in a constantly evolving and shifting environment The Leadership Choice . . . • To be intentional about the path our organizations follow - or to turn on autopilot •To plot our course before we set out - or to go with the flow •This requires a judgment about how we think we are most likely to get to our destination.

As my boss once said . . . Ideas are a dime a dozen . . . But the person who can implement them . . . Priceless

Outline • What occasioned your strategic planning exercise -under what circumstances was it undertaken? • How did you proceed and why did you proceed in the way that you did? • What were the results and what is the current status of the work? • What major obstacles did you have to overcome? • What were the major lessons learned? • Thinking about the regional context, what difference did that make to the process, the obstacles, the outcomes?

Our speakers . . . Howard Waldner Shan Landry Rob Devitt