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The Best Laid Plans
Planning can be incredibly valuable, but even the best-laid plans are subject to factors beyond our control.
When you find your plans disrupted or thrown off course, here are some questions that can help you reset and make the most of a challenging situation.
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Modern Strategy for Meaningful Results [PODCAST]
I recently had the chance to visit with the We Are For Good podcast team about the benefits of modern strategy for social good, involving your community in your strategic planning, and what it looks like to get your strategic plan so clear you can fit it on one page.
While we focus on strategic planning for nonprofit organizations and leaders in this episode, the practical advice and approaches here work for social good businesses and anyone else who's looking for a better way to articulate and activate their strategy.
Creating an Environment Where Strategy Can Succeed
Strategy succeeds when we intentionally create an environment that enables success.
That may sound obvious, but so many organizations struggle with this simple truth.
If your work environment is essentially a harrowing obstacle course ranging from minor frustrations, like not being able to get the right people in a meeting for two to three weeks, to major barriers, like having out of date or faulty technology systems that actively reduce your ability to do your job every day – your chances of success dwindle quickly.
On the flip side, when your environment and organization culture are intentionally designed to support you, it becomes a whole lot easier to achieve your goals and feel great while doing so.
A New Approach to Goal Setting
It’s the beginning of a new year, which often means new goals, new priorities, new visions for what we – and our organizations – will accomplish.
It can be easy to get caught up in choosing impressive goals – ones that follow best practices, align with what funders want to see, or push our impact to a whole new level. And if we’re doing it well, we will already have invested in the approaches, systems, and communications it takes to drive accountability, collaboration, and integration so that we can make meaningful progress toward those goals.
But what happens when you’ve done everything right, achieved every goal, and yet something is still missing?