The surest method to shifting your board's focus from immediate and reactive matters to future and strategic ones is captured in one word -- calendar. If its really important for your stability and sustainability, it must be reduced to routine priorities from which you never turn away -- you schedule it. The annual calendar allows you to program standing reviews, committee reports, financial performance milestones and every aspect of your strategic plan oversight. The Annual Calendar Planner included here offers to two ways to develop your calendar: Type I View: "Vertical, Board Meeting Agendas Approach and Type II: "Horizontal, Functional Board Priorities. Each template contains sample entries to offer your board examples of annual "launch and land" planning examples.