Sow, Grow, Lead: Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Executives

Are you excited about the thought of strategic planning–or are you dreading the process, wary of the time and energy it will take and skeptical of the results it will produce? Nonprofit organizations spend thousands of dollars and countless hours of board and staff time to produce strategic plans that can be stale, uninspiring, and hard to implement. When you feel the pressure to plan a retreat and produce the end document you may be tempted to rush through the early steps of the process. But when you don’t gather the necessary information about the internal functioning of your organization and the external environment in which you operate, you risk producing a plan that fails to inspire staff, set your organization apart from its competitors, or adequately respond to a rapidly changing environment. Learn how to get strategic planning right from the start by conducting internal and external scans that are streamlined, inclusive, and thought-provoking.

This interactive workshop will help you prepare for your own planning process and can be even more powerful when attended by multiple members of a team or committee. Join us to discover how taking a careful, sequential approach can make the strategic planning process faster, more powerful, more fun, and easier to translate into concrete action steps that are embraced at every level of your organization.