Strategic Management These are short examples of strategic management services provided by Rebecca Leet & Associates to specific clients. American Rivers Rebecca Leet & Associates helped American Rivers develop a five-year strategic plan, an effort that included performing a Situation Analysis, conducting a key function audit of its programs, facilitating plan development over several meetings (including a two-day retreat with its Board and staff), and consultation with the staff to make the plan operational in the subsequent budget and annual planning process. The plan took the organization in a dramatically new direction and helped double its size over the period of the plan. Georgia Child Advocacy Work Group Rebecca Leet & Associates was engaged by a group of statewide leaders to conduct a situation analysis on the effectiveness of the state's long-time child advocacy organization. After a survey of state and local leaders, a landscape assessment of other child advocacy organizations, in-person interviews of key individuals, and facilitated discussion with the work group, Rebecca Leet & Associates recommended that the existing organization be closed and a new group created – the recommendation adopted by the group. The new group was launched in 2003. Friends of the Earth Prior to embarking on creation of Friends of the Earth's first strategic plan, Rebecca Leet & Associates conducted a key function audit of FOE's policy programs – the heart of the organization's activities. Such audits are done for various purposes; the purpose of this one was to ensure that the Board-staff strategic planning team shared a common understanding of exactly what the organization was doing. The planning team was surprised by many audit findings – for example, that FOE spent more money on a program considered marginal and likely to be eliminated than on seven programs considered important. The audit results helped focus the planning team on the critical issues that needed to be addressed.

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