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Put Your Strategic
Plan to Work!
Action Planning for
Boards,
Volunteers and Staff
Move from "blue sky" thinking to getting things done!
Get rolling with "hit-the-ground-running" action plans!
Rally volunteers and staff around a focused set of goals!
When to Use
Put Your Strategic Plan to Work
- As the next step, after the strategic planning process, when you want to hit-the-ground-running.
- When momentum and enthusiasm for the plan may have stalled.
- To help incoming board members, volunteers or new staff get up to speed.
- To brainstorm solutions when unexpected obstacles arise.
Delivered in the Format that
Meets Your Association's Needs
Each session is customized specifically for your association. I work closely with you to determine the needs of your board, committee and/or staff. The format is flexible to accommodate your schedule. For example, Put Your Strategic Plan to Work might be:
- Scheduled as a follow-up to your Board's strategic planning session.
- Offered as the basis for a Board or staff retreat.
- Offered as an educational workshop for your chapters or committees.
- Designed as a series of hands-on working sessions for your staff.
What topics are addressed in a session of
Put Your Strategic Plan to Work?
Each session of Implementing Your Strategic Plan addresses the three challenges an association typically faces when implementing its strategic plan:
Action Planning
Participants dive into the in hands-on creation of hit-the- ground-running action plans. This includes:
Identifying crucial steps: The key actions that must be taken in the coming months or year.
Overcoming obstacles: Determine what issues are most likely to derail implementation of the plan; utilize problem-solving techniques to overcome those obstacles.
Defining task assignments: Determine who does what by when. This helps to ensure accountability.
Developing clear, understandable measurements: To ensure the plan stays on track and everyone agrees how to monitor progress.
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Between Board and Staff
This section covers three topics:
Defining roles and responsibilities for volunteers and staff: To overcome the common problem that results when there is a lack of clear role delineation between board and staff.
Communicating the plan: An ongoing, internal marketing campaign to promote the strategic plan ensures that volunteers, members and staff are fully educated about the strategy.
Leadership styles and buy-in: Putting your strategic plan to work requires that members, volunteers and staff have "buy-in." To help in this challenging area of leadership, the session reviews the most effective leadership styles (visionary, democratic and affiliative) and practical ways to apply these to your association's situation.
| Priority Setting:
Allocate Your Resources Productively
This segment addresses two critical questions:
Allocation: During the coming year, what is the most productive way to allocate our association's limited resources? What will give us the most bang for the buck?
Leveraging: Are there creative strategies we can utilize to achieve maximum leverage from our limited resources?
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 Click on the graphic to see
sample slides from the presentation:
Overcoming Barriers.
© 2005 Allen Liff
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