Purpose The purpose of this operating procedure is to establish, document, and communicate the process for strategic planning at YOUR CHURCH. Scope The strategic planning process is used by senior staff to evaluate the organization’s performance, in terms of meeting stakeholder needs, and to develop a plan to better meet those needs during the coming planning period. The process begins with an annual strategic … [Read more...]
Documenting A “Strategy”
Some Thoughts On How To Go About Developing And Documenting A Strategy
Documenting a strategy is one of the most important steps in any "plan and execute" leadership culture. I will blog more about a "plan and execute culture" in a future post, but for now, suffice to say that it's one of the most important aspects of a healthy leadership culture, be it in or outside the church. The purpose of a strategy is to succinctly communicate to the reader "the plan" for accomplishing … [Read more...]
Strategic Plan Critical Strategies And Key Objectives
The “actionable” part of the Strategic Plan consists of critical strategies, each broken into key objectives. Critical strategies are the highest-level objectives that begin to break the plan down into its different and distinct areas of focus. Key objectives are the detailed actions identified under each critical strategy. The church's critical strategies and key objectives are outlined below: (1) Numerical … [Read more...]
Strategic Plan Core Values
The next section of the Strategic Plan Document is the Core Values. Here's how it reads: Core values are those key beliefs and/or statements of fundamental principles that are “non-negotiables” for the church. They are the values the church will literally “die on the hill” over. Everything the church does must be consistent with its core values. The core values will rarely, if ever, be changed or modified. CCV’s … [Read more...]