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Deciding Whom to Involve in Strategic Planning: Tactics, Strategy, Priorities
Categorize all the people you think you'll invite to participate in your nonprofit's strategic planning project into one of three categories: Tactics, Strategy, or Priorities.
The purpose here is to...
Deciding Whom to Involve in Strategic Planning: Veto, Discuss, Inform, Implement
Use this model to list and categorize all the people who could and should be involved in your nonprofit's strategic planning. Try to be all-inclusive in this first analysis; you...
The Fundraising Talk with Your Board Chair
Start a strategic conversation about fundraising with your board chair using these four provocative questions.
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Get Aligned with Your Board Chair on Strategic Planning
Get Aligned with Your Board Chair on Strategic Planning
Involve your board chair from the earliest stages of planning your next strategic planning retreat. This helps ensure her/his and the...
Strategic Planning Assessment: Will It Be Productive or Painful?
Take this quick assessment to find out whether strategic planning in your nonprofit is as stress free and effective as it should be.
Rate how much you agree with the following...
How to Bake Strategy into Every Meeting
Your planning efforts are wasted if you don't constantly think strategically.
At every leadership team and board meeting, attendees should think and talk about how each agenda item advances the...
How to take a vacation work day
- Do it on a Tuesday. The schadenfreude of relaxing on a Monday while everyone else heads back to work is delicious.
- Be just as disciplined with your time...
