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This course explores models and principles of strategic planning and the leadership characteristics that promote effective strategic planning, including setting priorities, allocating resources to support priorities, and focusing energies to strengthen operations and employee engagement. The outputs of strategic planning, which include documentation and communication that guide achievement of an organization's identified goals. Students learn to recognize the degree of alignment between these goals and actual outcomes from execution of the strategic plan, as a measure of the organization's strategic advantage. Students will extract a set of practical principles useful in any future leadership role.