Strategic Planning
Mark Twain once said, “You can’t trust your judgment if your imagination is out of focus.” All too often not-for-profit organizations find themselves guided by inertia – going in the same direction as last year, often from a sense that there is no other reasonable option. Strategic Planning is an opportunity to stop long enough to lift your eyes to the horizon and make conscious decisions as to what roads you will need to take to get where you would like to be – not just to where you have always gone before. The Strategic Plan provides a framework for decision making grounded on the shared mission and vision of the organization.
Rondout Consulting works with both Board and key staff members in a series of facilitated discussions toward a deliverable document that will be specific in its expectations, measurable in its expected outcomes, achievable within the reasonable means available (or potentially available) to the organization, and trackable so that real-time adjustments can be made through the implementation process.