Strategic Planning

If you volunteer for a nonprofit, and you should, you’ve probably been through a strategic planning process. This is where the organization sits down and draws up a plan for the next five years or so that directs where the organization is going and how it will achieve goals beyond the daily grind of doing the work. By “sits down”, I mean that often everyone sits and sits and sits and the plan eventually reflects whoever has the strongest bottom more than anything else. It needs to be done, but how many things in life as so literally a pain in the rear?

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