Stage 6: Monitoring & Reviewing Your Strategic Plan



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The final step in any planning process is to monitor and evaluate progress. The same way as you check the sign posts along a road when completing a journey it is similarly important to check that development is on track.


You must ensure that whoever is doing the work is keeping appropriate records so that progress can be assessed. This will involve, at the implementation stage of your plan, being clear what systems and structures are required. The things you decide to measure will give an indication of how well you’re doing, hence, the name indication or performance measures.

Before completing your plan, you need to agree how and when it will be monitored and reviewed and what information the Management Committee needs to receive in order to review progress.

When reviewing progress towards achieving the strategic aims and objectives, the Management Committee should:

  • ensure that activities are kept within the parameters of the agreed strategic aims and objectives
  • ensure that activities are consistent with organisation’s vision, mission and values
  • keep under review internal and external changes which may require changes to the organisation’s strategy or affect their ability to achieve their objectives.

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