Strategic Action Planning
More and more nonprofit organizations are realizing the importance of thinking and working more strategically. Limited budgets combined with growing public scrutiny have placed nonprofits under the donor microscope. In response, nonprofits are beginning to look for support to build healthier, more efficient systems in the hope of creating the kind of organization donors are willing to support.
What they are finding is that traditional consulting and strategic planning methods are too costly and conceptual to be of any value for nonprofits. They want immediate results, and they demand a practical outcome.
A Different Approach
Cool Strategies, however, offers a revolutionary, 2-day planning process that focuses a management team on high impact areas and begins moving them forward. It is cost effective and the results are extremely practical:
- We use a customized nonprofit organization assessment tool called Virtual CEO™ to collect information from the ministry's executives and and non-management staff alike.
- This tool is entirely web-based. No paper surveys. No consultants to meet with.
- Your management team is challenged to "think like a CEO" by considering their use of 189 best practices covering a wide range of organizational disciplines.
- Assessments are followed up with a two-day onsite planning meeting with the management team.
Two Days. That's It?
- Day one--you identify the most significant issues impacting your organization. These are based on your conclusions about what will have the greatest impact, not ours.
- Day two--you work as a team to build a detailed action plan addressing your most pressing priorities.
We guarantee you will walk away with a specific plan of action defining who is going to do what by when. We are available, at your request, for ongoing consultation and support. Some clients want the
accountability and extra input. But it's your choice.
So what are the benefits from this kind of engagement? Based on our own experiences working with nonprofit organizations, they are radically different from what happens in other methods of strategic planning.
Top Benefits from a Cool Strategies™ Strategic Action Planning Engagement
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- Presents the TRUTH of your nonprofit organization
- Develops ALIGNMENT across the management team
- Creates AGREEMENT about how you should respond
- Promotes ACTION in response to top priorities
- Establishes BENCHMARKS for future evaluation
We've been asked if it is truly possible to impact in an organization in only two days. Based on our experience, absolutely!
Be sure to review our FAQs for more information, including some pricing information. We also have a cool interactive demonstration (15 megs) of the Virtual CEO assessment tool and reports. Beyond that, we strongly encourage you to contact us today for more information about this vital and effective process.
