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The Approach
Far too often, organisations choose the wrong approach to strategic planning. As a result, strategic plans sit untouched on shelves and many trustees and managers become even more sceptical about the strategic planning process. This occurs especially with 1) new organisations, 2) organisations having many current issues, and 3) organisations having very limited resources.
An issues based strategic plan starts from the present and works to the future. The leaders identify major issues facing the organisation right now. Then they can specify action plans about who is going to do what and by when in order to address each issue. They might scan the external environment, but they focus especially on the internal environment of the organisation in order to ensure the organisation accomplish strong internal systems.
“We have a positive, crystal clear strategic plan, which we are proud of, we couldn’t have done that without the support of Pro Bono OR.”