A board retreat that ends with a longer list than it started with. A head of school who knows the enrollment trend matters but cannot get the leadership team past next week’s schedule. A plan that was celebrated in May and has not been opened since. None of...
A leadership team can spend months discussing the same concerns and still leave every meeting with more to do than before. That is not a commitment problem. It is usually a clarity problem. This strategy workshop case study shows how a facilitated planning session can...
A strategic plan for a Christian school carries two jobs at once. It has to answer practical questions about enrollment, faculty, facilities, and program, and it has to do that work in a way that is recognizably faithful to the mission the school exists to serve....
A leadership team can spend two days in a retreat center, fill three flip charts, eat too many pastries, and still leave without a usable plan. The problem usually is not a lack of intelligence, commitment, or ideas. It is a lack of strategic planning tools that help...
A leadership team can spend two productive days building a strategy, agree on a handful of meaningful priorities, and still lose the plan by the next staff meeting. It gets buried in a shared drive, separated from the budget, or reduced to a slide deck no one opens. A...
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