The Shrinking Church 09 – So, You’re Leading a Church With No Plan: Think Again!

“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!”  ― Benjamin Franklin

Planning is a key part of every success. I meet leaders almost every day who don’t have a strategy and are implementing tactics in the absence of an overall strategy. I continue to observe leaders who compromise the success of the organization they lead. The primary deficiency is the lack of a plan. Without a plan, stakeholders and organization members don’t know how to engage. Without a plan, leaders set up the organization for failure.

Over the next few posts, I will be addressing major leadership issues. The first is how to create a strategy for the organization.

Here’s the plan for the plan:

Create the Strategy: Leadership without a strategic framework for the organization will compromise the results, overwork the leadership and teams, and waste time and money. A strategy is a Solution Map defining where the organization wants to be and how to get there. In a nonprofit, the planners must be the doers…no exceptions. The top level team, the board and staff, are key to implementation. The integration of strategy and performance happens with the planning.

Define the Process: This is out of order. Start with defining the process. Here are the steps:

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