The strategic plan is what holds a non-profit organization together during challenging times, growth times, changing times… basically at all times. The Strategic Plan is the core tool which defines the mandate and parameters of what the organization will do, and delivers high-level instruction and authority from the Board to the staff and volunteers.
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Our strategic planning services encourage non-profit organizations to use planning thoughtfully and successfully. Through our planning retreats, workshops, customized support and online resources, we seek to equip non-profit leaders with ever-increasing knowledge and comfort in doing strategic planning.
Facilitating the Strategic Planning Process
Directis Consulting is a team of professionals who care passionately about helping non-profit organizations, especially the small and medium-sized ones, develop and maintain good strategic planning habits. Our core service for non-profits is to facilitate the strategic planning process in concert with the board, Executive Director, staff and volunteers. The pieces of this puzzle include:
- Environmental Scan and Situation Analysis: surveys and research to ground the organization’s challenges, resources and goals in a well-informed planning context.
- Visioning / Mission / Goal-Setting: collaborative facilitated experiences with a range of stakeholders to set the high-level direction.
- Addressing Key Issues: using expert consultants to improve fund development, board readiness, marketing/social media, volunteer management, IT, financial management and human resources issues. We can also help you assess and prepare for a social enterprise.
- Action and Operational Planning: developing short-term and mid-term plans for bringing goals and objectives to life, including budgets to tie money to mission.
We use a variety of visual and collaborative techniques to make sure that any plans or solutions are the brainchild of your organization, not imposed as recommendations by outsiders. We look and feel like a different kind of consulting group – because we are!
Making the first move can feel awkward or uncertain. We don’t ask you to say “YES” to an undertaking like this right away. Please contact us if you’re preparing to embark, or in the middle of a strategic planning journey and you’d like some objective, supportive assistance.