non profit strategic-planning: four really important factors for success
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Non-profit strategic planning can be challenging. Learning and focusing on success factors can really help your organization have a successful strategic planning process. This presentation covers four keys to a great plan. More information at: http://www.dot-orgstrategicplan.com/.TRANSCRIPT
NON-PROFIT STRATEGIC PLANNING
FOUR REALLY IMPORTANT FACTORS FOR SUCCESS
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
Successful strategic planning is awesome!
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
Successful strategic planning is awesome!
Here are four key success
factors
1. ENSURE EFFECTIVE PROCESS
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
1. ENSURE EFFECTIVE PROCESS
STRATEGIC PLANNING IS GENERALLY A MULTIFACETED, CHALLENGING GROUP PROCESS.
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
ARRANGE FOR FACILITATION THAT BALANCES
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
ARRANGE FOR FACILITATION THAT BALANCES
INCLUSION
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
ARRANGE FOR FACILITATION THAT BALANCES
INCLUSION EFFICIENCY
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
and
IF NEEDED, HIRE (OR BORROW) A FACILITATOR FOR PLANNING SESSIONS
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
YOU DON’T NECESSARILY NEED A STRATEGIC PLANNING FACILITATOR—IF YOU HAVE A PLANNING PROCESS IN HAND.
2. REALLY DEVELOP A STRATEGY
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
2. REALLY DEVELOP A STRATEGY
YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN GUIDES YOUR SHIP. CROSSING SHAOL WATERS, YOU PROBABLY NEED TO DO MORE THAN JUST TRIM THE SAILS.
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGEY REFERS TO IDEAS ABOUT HOW BEST TO ACHIEVE A GOAL
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGEY REFERS TO IDEAS ABOUT HOW BEST TO ACHIEVE A GOAL
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
YOUR ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY IS HOW YOU ADVANCE YOUR MISSION—SO
IT’S SUPER DUPER IMPORTANT. (MORE SO EVEN THAN THAT COMMA.)
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
IT’S EASY TO SIDE-STEP STRATEGY
LISTING:
• KEY OBJECTIVES • WAYS TO MAXIMIZE
STRENGTHS AND OPPORTUNITIES
• ORGANIZATIONAL PRIORITIES
• ETC.
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
IT’S EASY TO SIDE-STEP STRATEGY
LISTING:
• KEY OBJECTIVES • WAYS TO MAXIMIZE
STRENGTHS AND OPPORTUNITIES
• ORGANIZATIONAL PRIORITIES
• ETC.
IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR:
WE BELIEVE THE BEST WAY
FOR US TO ___________
IS TO ___________ .
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
A comprehensive organizational strategy can guide your organization on all decks, from programs, to resource management, to internal functions.
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
A comprehensive organizational strategy can guide your organization on all decks, from programs, to resource management, to internal functions.
A resilient organizational strategy—one that remains relevant in the face of environmental change during its timeframe—can guide in all kinds of weather too.
3. KEEP ORGANIZATIONAL SCOPE
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
3. KEEP ORGANIZATIONAL SCOPE
STRATEGIC PLANNING OFTEN GOES TOO FAR “DOWNSTREAM”
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGIC
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGIC PLAN
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGIC PLANNING
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGIC PLANNING OFT
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGIC PLANNING OFTEN
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGIC PLANNING OFTEN T
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGIC PLANNING OFTEN TAKES
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGIC PLANNING OFTEN TAKES T
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGIC PLANNING OFTEN TAKES TOO
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGIC PLANNING OFTEN TAKES TOO L
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGIC PLANNING OFTEN TAKES TOO LO
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGIC PLANNING OFTEN TAKES TOO LON
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGIC PLANNING OFTEN TAKES TOO LON
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGIC PLANNING OFTEN TAKES TOO LONG
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGIC PLANNING OFTEN TAKES TOO LONG
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
“Hey, our new strategic plan is
already old!”
ONE CAUSE OF THIS IS GOING TOO FAR DOWNSTREAM
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
ONE CAUSE OF THIS IS GOING TOO FAR DOWNSTREAM
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
It’s not DSL vs. cable Internet—it’s that we don’t have a fast
enough connection!
ONE CAUSE OF THIS IS GOING TOO FAR DOWNSTREAM
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
Let’s not figure this out here—let’s set a strategic goal to
create a technology team with a technology plan.
ONE CAUSE OF THIS IS GOING TOO FAR DOWNSTREAM
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
Right, I didn’t mean to take us too far downstream.
When’s lunch?
MAINTAIN A CLEAR, HIGH-LEVEL FOCUS BY IDENTIFYING WHAT’S NEEDED AT AN
ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL
• VISION? • VALUES? • MISSION GOAL? • CORE STRATEGIES • STRATEGIC GOALS • ETC.
YOU MIGHT CONSIDER PROGRAM MIX, OR EVEN SET HIGH LEVEL PROGRAM OR UNIT GOALS, BUT BEST TO AVOID PROGRAM OR UNIT PLANNING
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
4. INTEGRATE YOUR PLANNING
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
4. INTEGRATE YOUR PLANNING
OFTEN STRATEGIC PLANS BECOME DISCONNECTED FROM ORGANIZATIONAL LIFE
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
DO STRATEGIC PLANS OFTEN “COLLECT DUST ON A SHELF?”
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
DO STRATEGIC PLANS OFTEN “COLLECT DUST ON A SHELF?”
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
STRATEGIC PLANS DO
SOUNDS LIKE TOO FEW INSTITUTIONALIZED LINKAGES BETWEEN
ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY AND
GOALS
ACTIONS ON THE GROUND THAT CAN
IMPLEMENT AND ACHIEVE THEM
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
AND
CREATE A PLANNING SYSTEM IN WHICH EACH LEVEL DRIVES THE OTHER
STRATEGIC PLANNING,
EVALUATION, AND REVISION
PROGRAM- AND UNIT-LEVL
PLANNING, EVALUATION, AND
REVISION
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
Let’s meet tomorrow at 10 for program planning—and be sure to bring your copy of
the strategic plan…
IN SUMMARY
FOUR REALLY ESSENTIAL FACTORS FOR SUCCESS ARE: – ENSURE EFFECTIVE PROCESS (IT’S A COMPLEX GROUP THING)
– REALLY HAVE A STRATEGY (THE BEST WAY TO GO IS TO FIGURE OUT THE BEST WAY TO GO)
– KEEP ORGANIZATIONAL SCOPE (OVERPLANNING IS OVERBOARD)
– INTEGRATE YOUR PLANNING (SYSTEMICALLY LINK THE ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL TO THE PROGRAM AND OTHER UNIT LEVEL)
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success
LEARN MORE
DOT-ORG STRATEGIC PLAN
An online tool for do-it-yourself, non-profit strategic
planning
www.dot-orgstrategicplan.com
ROOT ACTION
Strategic planning, facilitation, and other
non-profit support
www.rootaction.org
Non-profit strategic planning: Four really important factors for success