Making Assignments and Managing Strategic Plan - Multiple Choice Questions Survey

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* 1. A strategic plan without associated action plans is:

A wish list

Is often easier to reference

Is strategic, but not a plan

Sometimes faster to implement

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* 2. Which of these are typical contents of action plans?

Objectives

Assignments

Deadlines

Executive Summaries

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* 3. Action plans can:

Make the strategic plan more realistic

Help to get buy-in of employees

Sometimes make it more difficult to involve the Board

Sometimes make strategic plans overly complex

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* 4. Which of the following are true about action plans?

Once approved by the Board, should not be changed

Useful especially if employees were involved in developing them

Useful especially if they are integrated and aligned

Should specify roles, rather than names of employees

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* 5. When developing an action plan, which of these applies?

Don’t aim for perfection

Employee involvement makes them more realistic

Write down best initial thoughts, then adjust as necessary

Adopt action plans from other organizations

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* 6. When verifying that action plans are complete and integrated, which of these applies?

All of these

Look for duplication

Look for conflicting action plans

Examine if any might be missing

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* 7. Which of the following best defines a critical success factor?

Must be addressed for future goals to be achieved

Helps in sequencing the strategic priorities

Must be scoped to the mission and priorities of the organization

Is the issue people are most concerned about now

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* 8. Which of the following are true for determining a time span for a strategic plan?

If outside and inside environments are stable, use a longer time span

If primarily focused on internal systems, use a shorter time span

Plans should always be 3-5 years out

It depends

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* 9. To complete your strategic plan document, which of these applies?

Mark it as “draft” until approved by Board

Date it so you can manage versions

Notarize the document

Do Table of Contents or Executive Summary, not both

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* 10. Which of the following are means to integrate the goals and/or objectives throughout the organization?

All of these

Include in Board committee work plans

Put on Board meeting agenda

Use as performance goals for your CEO

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* 11. Which of these does NOT apply when communicating the strategic plan?

Rarely share plans outside of the organization

If plans are behind schedule, be reluctant to share plans

Each stakeholder group might want different plan information

Identify who will provide the information, how and when

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* 12. Which of these are the most useful tools when regularly monitoring the implementation of your plan?

Staff meetings

Planned-versus-actual budget reports

CEO’s report to the Board

Annual reports

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* 13. If implementation is behind schedule, which are the most important considerations?

Get more resources?

Extend deadlines?

Reduce the number of goals?

All of these?

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* 14. What titles should be listed in the Associated Documents section of the plan?

Documents very closely related to strategic plan’s information

Other major plans, for example, business plans and program plans

Listing of all relevant laws and regulations

Board’s comments about the plan

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* 15. When does your strategic plan become official?

When it’s approved by the Board (in the case of corporations), otherwise the CEO

After it’s successfully implemented

When specifically, it’s financial plan is approved

When integrated throughout the organization

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* 16. If changes need to be made to the strategic plan before the next round of planning, which of the following applies?

Change the revision date of the plan

Board approves changes to top-level statements and priorities

Management approves changes to action plans

Create a temporary version of the strategic plan

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* 17. Changing a plan systematically includes:

All of these

Specifying the change(s) to be made

Getting approval for the changes

Changing the version of the plan

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