Ask the Experts - Making Strategic Planning Work For You

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   CommonGood VT
   Moderator

   Earlier this month, Common Good Vermont kicked off its NPO Mavens series with this lunch-time panel of notable nonprofit leaders discussing when and how strategic thinking and planning can tighten up your operations and improve your outcomes. For the next week, Jim LeFevre (LeFevre Associates), Julie Broadway (American Morgan Horse Association) and Nick Richardson (Vermont Energy Education Program/ VEIC) will answer basics of strategic planning and discuss how strategic thinking can transform your organization.Watch the video here http://bit.ly/bKiMA3 and pose questions

   To start things off, what three things should I consider before starting my strategic plan?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Lauren-Glenn Davitian
   Member

   We'd like to start a strategic planning process for Common Good Vermont and could use some help focusing on what seems like a very large process. What 2-3 things do you suggest that we start with? Thanks so much!

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   nick.a.richardson
   Member

   LG-
   My first piece of advice is to break this process down, and focus on the parts that are in the "urgent and important" category first. Strategic planning need not be a all-encompassing "avatar"-like adventure, nor as costly! Pay for an hour with a consultant to sit with your team and map a list of strategic planning priorities, and then tackle them in a systematic fashion- this will bring strategic thinking and action into your every day.

   Remember, you've gotten this far! Nothing's going to burn down tomorrow if you don't get it all figured out tonight.

   Good luck!

   Posted 2 years ago #

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