Strengthening Strategic Planning Skills For Nonprofits

What you'll learn
How strategic planning can be an action, an ability, and an adaptive leadership approach.
How a culture of learning and being a learning organization can support your strategic planning effectiveness.
Six phases of nonprofit strategic planning.
The role of self determination theory in motivating yourself and others around strategic planning efforts.
The role of adaptive strategy in nonprofit leadership.
How to assess readiness for strategic planning across multiple dimensions, and put the elements of the "Theory of Change" model into practice.
Using the strategic choice cascade in your planning work.
Recognizing how self-preservation, altruism, resistance and competition plays into your own (and your colleagues') motivation for strategic planning.
Requirements
No prerequisites needed!
Description
About this learning path...Strategic planning is the process we use to enable our nonprofits to achieve their missions. It's also the overarching ability–or capacity–to plan strategically over time.Full participation in this certificate is applicable for 3 points in Category 1.B Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.What You Will LearnHow strategic planning can be an action, an ability, and an adaptive leadership approach.The role of adaptive strategy in nonprofit leadership.How a culture of learning and being a learning organization can support your strategic planning effectiveness.How to assess readiness for strategic planning across multiple dimensions, and put the elements of the "Theory of Change" model into practice.Six phases of nonprofit strategic planning.Using the strategic choice cascade in your planning work.The role of self determination theory in motivating yourself and others around strategic planning efforts.Recognizing how self-preservation, altruism, resistance and competition plays into your own (and your colleagues') motivation for strategic planning.Who is this learning path for?Strategic planning is a skill that all nonprofit professionals can participate in, whether through leadership or support. The courses within the strategic planning learning path will offer new perspective on traditional and current planning processes and approaches. You'll enjoy a unique consideration of how you and others may be motivated or resistant to the planning process and outcomes. The Theory of Change is introduced in this learning path as well.This learning path explores the following Korn Ferry competencies:Action OrientationFinancial AcumenOrganizational SavvyPlans and AlignsDriving Vision and Purpose
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Introduction to Strengthening Strategic Planning Skills for Nonprofits
Lecture 2 Downloadable Workbook
Section 2: Bronze 1: What is Decision Making?
Lecture 3 What you can expect in this lesson
Lecture 4 What is decision making?
Lecture 5 Why does decision making matter?
Section 3: Bronze 2: Skills to Improve Decision Making
Lecture 6 What skills can improve decision making?
Section 4: Bronze 3: Effective Decision Making
Lecture 7 Key Indicators of Decision-Making Effectiveness
Lecture 8 How do we measure effective decision-making?
Section 5: Silver 1: Action Planning to Improve Decision Making
Lecture 9 What you can expect in this badge
Lecture 10 Action Planning to Improve Your Decision Making
Lecture 11 Action Planning to Improve Your Organization's Decision Making
Section 6: Silver 2: Information that Supports Decision Making
Lecture 12 What types of information supports decision-making?
Section 7: Silver 3: Setting Decision Making Improvement Goals
Lecture 13 Setting Decision-Making Goals: Reducing Decision Quantity
Lecture 14 Tracking Your Decision-Making Success
Section 8: Gold 1: Getting (and Staying) Motivated to Improve Decision-Making
Lecture 15 What you can expect in this series
Lecture 16 Motivating Yourself to Improve Decision-Making
Lecture 17 Ideas to Build Motivation and Energy Around Decision-Making
Section 9: Gold 2: Decision Making in Review
Lecture 18 Decision Making in Review
Strategic planning is a skill that all nonprofit professionals can participate in, whether through leadership or support.
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