This blog post is by Shannon Sullivan, Director of Strategic Planning; you can read more about Shannon and learn how to contact her here.
Increasingly, science is finding that quiet is important for our mental health, our creative selves, and even our cardiovascular health. But the more we discover about the importance of quiet, it seems, the harder it becomes to find. Join SooJi Min, senior consultant for Mission Plus Strategy, as she teaches about mindful leadership and ways to find that quiet at our monthly workshops, which you can register for here.
Are you wondering what executive orders and policies are at risk with the Trump Administration? Would you like to see this information organized succinctly by key topics? Mission + Strategy has partnered with noted policy experts David Lloyd and Mike Koetting, with further commentary by K. Sujata, to produce four brief webinars to provide you with the information you need. The four topics addressed were:
Are you wondering what executive orders and policies are at risk with the Trump Administration? Would you like to see this information organized succinctly by key topics? Mission + Strategy has partnered with noted policy expert David Lloyd to produce three brief webinars to provide you with the information you need. The three topics addressed will be:
The process of partnering with clients on any planning engagement necessitates the hard work of ‘turning in’ and examining organization practices, culture, and effectiveness. This is one of the reasons that engaging in planning on a regular cycle actually increases mission impact—it forces us to examine who we are and how we do what we do, often with outside help from folks like me.
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Come Sit With Me
Really. I mean it. Come sit with me. Friday afternoon. Too busy? Too stressed? Too much to get done before you head out the door for the weekend? I’ve found that at times that I’m the most busy is when I need to sit the most.
“The only worthwhile strategy is one which can be executed,” or so says Justin King, the former CEO of Sainsbury’s, one of the UK’s largest grocery companies. I happen to agree. I also strongly recommend that strategic plans have specific, measurable performance objectives so everyone knows when the plan is in fact “executed.” According to a 2012 survey by the Association for Strategic Planning, only 51% of the 973 nonprofit executives who responded to the survey indicated their plan has defined performance outcomes.