Committing your time and energy to strategic work is the most impactful investment you can make.

Strategy Sessions

Organizational Resilience: 7 Crucial Steps to Safeguard Your Association

As they say, the one constant in life is change. Your organization is sure to face disruption from every direction: an evolving marketplace, financial hurdles, challenges of all kinds.

Knowing that these challenges are inevitable, what can you do? Here’s what: You commit to safeguarding your organization by engaging in an ongoing process of organizational structure and strategy.

This strategic session will give you the knowledge and tools to:

  • Face change with an attitude of strength and resilience

  • Make your goals part of the everyday conversation

  • Recognize foundational strengths

  • Identify and celebrate achievements

Evolving Strategy: Building Frameworks Instead of Plans

You’re only as strong as your strategy. So, what happens if the carefully crafted strategy you committed to isn’t serving your organization the way you intended? How do you remain committed to the mission while shifting your methodology?

Now, more than ever, associations need to be flexible. Successful organizations must build frameworks of strategy that can easily evolve, grow, and mature with the needs of membership, staff, and volunteers from which many plans of operationalization can emerge.

This unique session will guide you through an approach to:

  • Lead with flexibility and strength

  • View 3–5-year goals with optimism and resilience

  • Build a steady process for regular check-ins

  • Adapt and reprioritize as needed

Forecast Fluency: Learning How to Look Ahead

The aftermath of a pandemic, societal disruption, economic threats…from one challenge to the next, our organizations and leadership have faced crisis after crisis.

The silver lining is that with each challenge comes an opportunity. The ability to forecast these challenges and opportunities is a priceless skill. Intuitive foresight is the key ability to track trends – past, present, and future – and translate them into likely possibilities of tomorrow.

This session will step through a process of trend identification that can be used for any association or industry, helping volunteer leaders & staff alike to look up to the horizon and focus on what will most enable mission advancement.

Attendees will gain the ability to:

  • Learn and practice a framework of past, present, & future trend identification

  • Discover what questions can connect trend fluency to better mission-focused decisions

  • Bring back interactive facilitation methods to build a forecasting practice with your team

Strategy: A Year-Round Process

Yes, our organizations should have a framework they use to unify purpose and align resource investments to mission. Yes, when strategy is just an exercise in creating an artifact that is refreshed every 3-5 years, is an organization truly strategic? This session will touch on how the strategic framework is a nexus to year-round strategy and then review a half dozen approaches that associations use to ensure they are building the strategic capacity and fluency of staff and leadership every day.

This high-level session will allow you the opportunity to:

  • Review how a strategic framework can, when properly structured, serve as an organizational nexus and north star

  • Examine approaches to incorporating strategic practices into regular organizational function

  • Discuss the volunteer and staff frameworks needed to elevate the strategy potential of an organization