Category: Strategic Planning
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What you call it doesn’t matter
I was recently talking to someone who plays the staff role for a medium sized nonprofit organization. She had raised the possibility of doing strategic planning with her boss and…
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A fascinating video about motivation
The question I keep asking myself after repeatedly re-watching this video is: what are the implications for nonprofit organizations? Some implications are fairly straightforward: For example, with very few exceptions,…
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Clarifying the “why” when doing strategic planning
Often times in early conversations with clients, it becomes clear that they can’t articulate why they’re doing strategic planning. This can lead to disagreements about what process to utilize, since…
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Tips for being innovative
Lots of groups say they value innovation. But it’s harder to say that than to do it. If you want to encourage out-of-the-box thinking in your organization, here are some…
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Time is your most precious commodity
I recently wrote an article about the perils of chasing money and other shiny objects. That article didn’t do justice to one reason why this type of mission and strategy…
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Why volunteers before how volunteers
It’s an age-old question in virtually any social impact organization – how we do get volunteers? In my experience, if you start by answering that question, you’re getting off on…
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Raising money through strategic planning
Strategic planning can require significant resources — both time and money. Fortunately, going through the process can also be a means of raising additional resources. In my mind, there are…
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How Organizations Learn
Just read a fascinating article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review on how organizations learn. It definitely has tremendous applicability to any effort to help an organization establish systems or…
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On Evaluating Advocacy
A great article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review: The Elusive Craft of Evaluating Advocacy. Very much worth a read for those who want to understand the real-world of advocacy.
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From strategic plan to work plan
I’m often struck when talking to people how often individual work plans are wholly disconnected from strategic plans. Or even more by how some organizations never develop work plans. A…