Category: Strategic Planning
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Investment Plans as a strategic planning tool
In many strategic planning processes, prioritization among competing potential ideas or strategies becomes the linchpin of the process. If organizational identity isn’t at stake (e.g. vision/mission), the organization doesn’t face…
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Ticket to Ride and nonprofit leadership
One of my pandemic “weaknesses†has been the amount of time I’ve spent playing Ticket to Ride – the online version. For those not familiar with the game, you can…
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Strategic Planning and the board-ED relationship
I recently wrote an article for Blue Avocado on the board-Executive Director relationship. When I talk to nonprofit leaders about strategic planning, they often voice some of the obvious benefits…
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Planning and Management Amidst a Pandemic
I’ve worked with quite a few clients over the last few years developing strategic plans. A few have called me and asked: what now in light of the pandemic? I…
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Another technique for being strategic
I recently blogged about the importance of being strategic as an organization and one technique for being so modeled after Paul Covey’s insight about effective people focusing on important tasks…
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One technique for being more strategic
I’ve recently been thinking about the concept of organizations being strategic. Being strategic is a choice made by successful nonprofits. There are a lot of ways nonprofits fail to be…
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a lesson from my yoga instructor
My yoga story told a short story that she applied to life, but my mind immediately applied to nonprofit organizations. Chapter 1: You’re walking down a street, and you fall…
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How much input should we seek?
When starting to talk to a potential strategic planning client, one of the first questions that comes up relates to the level of input they are seeking to solicit as…
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Creating a “Time” Budget
As a consultant, one thing I often observe is that clients routinely have staff who are working far more hours than is sustainable. Â Moreover, they often have little idea where…
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A primer on nonprofit dashboards
What’s a nonprofit dashboard? Why should my nonprofit consider getting one? And how should we develop one? These are some of the questions I address in a recent guest blog…