Design & Align Your Operations
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Which comes first: A well-designed organization or a highly collaborative one? Trick Question. You can’t have one without the other.
To design a social-profit organization that will attract and retain creative, engaged people, a highly collaborative culture is required. And to sustain a highly collaborative, creative culture, your organization must be well designed to empower colleagues to grow their skills and run with their ideas while working together effectively.
It’s a tall order.
And immensely doable if you have a Shared Strategic Vision to act as everyone's touchstone while deliberately working together to create a collaborative culture capable of bringing it to life every day.
How well you manage to design & integrate the following crucial areas of your operations –– to align with your Shared Strategic Vision –– will have a major impact on how well everyone works together to achieve your intended results.
- Shared Strategic Vision
- Aligned Governance & Leadership Practices
- Structure & Responsibilities
- Programs, Services, & Systems
- Strategic Fund Development
- Integrative Strategic Planning
I’ll say more about these areas in later posts, but for now, suffice to say: how carefully each one of these fundamental disciplines is designed and aligned with your Shared Strategic Vision -- and integrated with one another -- will have a significant impact on your organization's culture, health, and social-profit results.