How to Execute a Strategic Plan at Your Church – Crafting the Plan
Too many leaders attempt strategic planning without fully considering their past and present circumstances.
As I’ve said in the past several posts, the better (and more honestly) we evaluate who we are and where we are, the better we’ll be able to define a strategy that moves us to where we want to be.
In this NEW POST, we move along from Defining Reality and Position” to step two: Develop a strategy
If you need to better understand strategic planning, I hope these articles help.
How to Execute a Strategic Plan at Your Church – Where Are We, Really?
If you want to execute an actionable strategic plan, you need a practical process.Â
Effective strategic plans do not just present where you want to go – they begin with a complete understanding of where you are. And who you are.
That’s the goal of the first segment of strategic planning. And it ends with a reality check.
In this NEW POST, we’ll finish out the “Determine position and reality” portion of our strategic plan.
How to Execute a Strategic Plan at Your Church – The One Unifying Question?
All actionable and pragmatic strategic plans follow a similar process:
1. Determine position and reality
2. Develop a strategy
3. Design the tactics
4. Measure the progress
Part of the first step is to ask the ONE that defines our strategic true north while creating unity within the organization.
In this post, I give you that ONE KEY QUESTION.
How to Execute a Strategic Plan at Your Church – Differentiation
Have you ever heard or used the term “Points of Differentiation?”
Differentiation is what makes you, you. Differentiation is essential to your brand, product mix, and market positioning. It’s also part of your culture.
When you are working on a strategic plan, determining your position and reality requires you defining your differentiation.
You don’t want to lose it when you plan for the future. The opposite, in fact – you want to leverage it!
How do you define your points of differentiation? In this NEW POST, I give you 8 questions to get your started.
How to Execute a Strategic Plan at Your Church – Values and Culture
You can’t begin designing a “HOW you’ll do it” strategy until you understand the “WHO you are culture.”
This is an often skipped step in the strategic planning process.
Attempting to design a new strategy without first understanding your current culture results in 1) a plan that cannot be executed or 2) a plan that creates a new and potentially unwanted culture.
In this NEW POST, I outline the steps to evaluate your current culture and define new aspirational values.
This is the second post this week on Strategic Planning. Make sure you look at the previous post for the full context.
How to Execute a Strategic Plan at Your Church – Defining Success
Success will be accidental and unreadable if you don’t have a strategic plan.
This is beyond your mission and vision statements. Well beyond!
The strategy is how the mission and vision come to fruition.
All great strategies are built strategically in this order:
1. Determine position, reality, and success
2. Develop a strategy
3. Design the tactics
4. Measure the progress
In this NEW POST: I give you some crucial tactics to determine success.
Follow along for the rest of the conversation as we outline the full strategic planning process.