Scenario: Imagine that you are working as a mid-level administrator within a healthcare system. You have been tasked with chairing a strategic planning task force to revise and update the healthcare system’s strategic plan. Your initial task is to call a meeting with your newly created strategic planning task force. Your first item on the agenda is to engage your task force in generating creative approaches to the strategic planning process.
Please briefly explain (in a minimum of 250 words) to your task force the overall strategic planning process and why creative thinking is important in the strategic planning process and how you will encourage it with your team.