Is your business ready to operate with critical functionality for up to two weeks? Will your staff be available to help you run your business in the days after a crisis hits? Lifesaving inventories (food, water, first aid supplies) need to be readily available, protected, and regularly refreshed to ensure the safety of you, your family,[…]
An important aspect of your planning process is determining how far you want to stretch your goals. Some of the most common questions that arise during planning retreats (especially with nonprofit organizations – and I’ll get to that shortly) are “Are our goals strategic enough?”, “These goals don’t seem strategic enough to me.”, or “This[…]
We must grow, or we will wither in the wind. But, we must manage growth, or growth will manage us. What does growth mean to your agency? I suspect you want to grow your nonprofit agency by increasing membership, donors, clients, or funding bases. And, you need to grow in a cost-effective manner, as each[…]
As we approach the traditional strategic planning season, this is a good time to think about what planning schedule is best for your agency. Over the past thirty years, I’ve led and/or participated in a multitude of planning retreats. If our experiences are similar, most planning events start on a Friday evening and conclude on[…]
Here we are again. It’s January, the month many organizations kick off their newly developed strategic goals. Do you remember the passion and excitement you experienced during your strategic planning retreat; and how motivated everyone in the room became as you finalized your new set of strategic goals? Now, it’s time to get everyone in[…]
It is extremely important for your nonprofit agency to have an up-to-date strategic plan. No, that’s not a shameless plug. It is a fact. A plan by itself is not the driver to your vision. If your strategic plan is aligned to your daily operation, then it has the power to drive change, make a difference,[…]