Strategic Planning for the Nonprofit Organization

Strategic Planning for the Nonprofit Organization

In this course we discuss how to overcome the challenges to effective strategic planning in a nonprofit organization, in order to enable the executive team and board of directors to appropriately and effectively guide the organization’s future direction.

We start by discussing why strategic planning seems to be so difficult for nonprofit boards and management teams. Then we cover Issues like the board’s role, staff/board collaboration challenges, visionary thinking, risk taking and the relationship between strategic plans and day-to-day operations.

This course discusses how to overcome the challenges to effective strategic planning in a nonprofit organization.

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What you will learn

• Recognize why strategic planning goals are typically not met – by most organizations, but particularly nonprofits.
• Identify how to engage the right mix of collaborators to ensure the plan has relevant input and broad acceptance by those who will implement it.
• Recognize how to effectively employ 5 tools for changing the outcome of the next plan you help build.

Rating: 3.7

Level: Intermediate Level

Duration: 1 hour

Instructor: Illumeo Learning