The Importance of Strategic Planning: a Roadmap for Organizational Sustainability

Workshop is led by John McEwan, Executive Director of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance.

A strategic planning process identifies strategies that will best enable a nonprofit to advance its mission. Ideally, as staff and board engage in the process, they become committed to measurable goals, approve priorities for implementation, and also commit to revisiting the organization’s strategies on an ongoing basis as the organization's internal and external environments change.

This half day workshop will discuss the following elements of the strategic planning process: · “SWOT” Analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) · Stakeholder Engagement · Organization Assessment · Planning Assessment · Suggested Plan Timelines and Formats · Strategic plans vs. annual plans · Working the plan

Using an experiential and problem-solving approach, you will be able to answer the following questions: · How do I improve my strategic plan? · How do I utilize metrics to achieve desired outcomes? · How do I improve my own leadership abilities? · How do I effectively engage people to produce results?