Strategic Planning

The process of determining an organization's long-term goals and then identifying the best approach to achieving those goals.

What are the Steps in the Strategic Planning Process?

  1. Where are we?
  2. What do we have to work with?
  3. Where do we want to be?
  4. How do we get there?
  5. How do we get everyone on the same page?
  6. What are the priorities?
  7. How do we resolve conflicts?
  8. How do we put that into a written plan?

What Are the Results of Strategic Planning?

  1. Defining your mission, vision and core values.
  2. Establishing realistic goals and objectives.
  3. Figuring out how you’re going to accomplish # 2.
  4. Developing a way to communicate goals and objectives to constituents.
  5. Providing a base to measure progress.
  6. Building consensus about where your organization is going.
  7. Creating a model that produces more efficiency and effectiveness.
  8. Building strong teams in the board, executive and staff.
  9. Creating common language around a common vision.
  10. Solving major problems.

Roles of the Planning Consultant

  1. Coach - Active direction throughout the process.
  2. Facilitator - Assistance dealing with difficult phases.
  3. Trainer - Explains the process.
  4. Strategist - Actively helps set strategy.
     

"If you don't know
where you're going,
how do you know
you got there?"

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