Strengthening Strategic Planning Skills for Nonprofits
Learn how to Chart a Clear Path to Long-Term Success and Sustainability and Leverage your Theory of Change
Strengthening Strategic Planning Skills for Nonprofits free download
Learn how to Chart a Clear Path to Long-Term Success and Sustainability and Leverage your Theory of Change
About this course...
Strategic planning is the process we use to enable our nonprofits to achieve their missions. It’s also the overarching ability–or capacity–to plan strategically over time. Nonprofit strategic planning is a structured process that organizations use to define their direction, set priorities, allocate resources, and strengthen operations to achieve their mission and goals. It involves analyzing the nonprofit's internal and external environment, identifying opportunities and challenges, and making informed decisions about long-term objectives. This planning helps ensure that all activities align with the organization's mission and values, driving impactful outcomes and sustainable growth.
We'll explore the typical process of strategic planning, including stakeholder engagement, setting measurable goals, creating action plans, and regularly reviewing progress to adjust strategies as needed. We'll then look at ways to make the process truly transformative for your nonprofit. This skill is useful across many roles in a nonprofit, and can be used to deepen your own effectiveness in your current role or advance to another role.
What You Will Learn
How strategic planning can be an action, an ability, and an adaptive leadership approach.
The role of adaptive strategy in nonprofit leadership.
How a culture of learning and being a learning organization can support your strategic planning effectiveness.
How to assess readiness for strategic planning across multiple dimensions, and put the elements of the "Theory of Change" model into practice.
Six phases of nonprofit strategic planning.
Using the strategic choice cascade in your planning work.
The role of self determination theory in motivating yourself and others around strategic planning efforts.
Recognizing how self-preservation, altruism, resistance and competition plays into your own (and your colleagues') motivation for strategic planning.
Who is this course for?
Strategic planning is a skill that all nonprofit professionals can participate in, whether through leadership or support. The lessons within this course will offer new perspective on traditional and current planning processes and approaches. You'll enjoy a unique consideration of how you and others may be motivated or resistant to the planning process and outcomes. The Theory of Change is introduced in this learning path as well.
This course explores the following Korn Ferry competencies:
Action Orientation
Financial Acumen
Organizational Savvy
Plans and Aligns
Driving Vision and Purpose
