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Planning is an essential part of leading and managing.
Progressive organizations serious about their missions plan. They hold retreats and involve volunteers and staff.
Often, the leaders and participants are dissatisfied either
with the plans or the execution. Are you ready to do
something about that?
Incite execution by being inclusive.
Compare
what you can lose by being exclusive.
I worked for a company that said in my interview that I
would participate in setting my goals. Instead I
received them, along with department goals we could not
achieve. It didn't work. It was frustrating. It was a
waste of so much time.
In the modern-day non-profit or credit union with
professional staff there are two negative tendencies.
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First is to discount the
volunteers' role because they do not know enough about
the operations. Yet, they can and should, from a
governance perspective, set the ultimate destination and
help define strategies that make management's work
easier. The role of directors belongs in what I call Tiers I and II
and can be immensely valuable.
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The second negative
tendency is not involving line staff in part of the
planning process; ignoring what employees intimately
know about their work is costly.
Learn how you can ...
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Develop four
distinct tiers that clarify roles and
dovetail together to for execution.
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Get the most you
can from volunteers and staff at their part in the
process.
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Get
started on reforming your planning process.
Organizational planning
processes have been in a state of flux for all the 37 years
Clark has observed and worked with credit unions and other
non-profits. There are principles that affect human behavior
on the job that some processes seem to ignore. For example,
complete buy-in requires participation. There is an appropriate place
in the process for employees & middle managers
& senior managers & volunteer directors. Attend this
Webinar and find out how one model of a planning process
involves everybody, and how it all ties together. See how
this planning model can help your
organization.
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