AMR Management Services

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For many association leaders, a strategic plan is a must, while others are not so enthused. Perhaps they have had a past strategic planning experience that didn’t pan out well—or perhaps they don’t understand the potential positive effects of a well-developed strategic plan. What’s the Purpose?

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Aaron Wolowiec

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Most associations view strategic planning as a necessary evil and cringe when the three years are up and it’s time to do another plan. Over time Boards can become jaded and skeptical of the strategic planning process, “We waste time and money on developing a plan and it never goes anywhere”.

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Smooth The Path

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Goals are not just for strategic planning meetings. The post Goal Setting Beyond the Strategic Planning Meeting appeared first on Smooth The Path. Setting goals is useful for many big and little things in life. What is our goal, and why are we doing this? What would a great outcome be? A message for the board.

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World Class Boards

APRIL 25, 2018

Strategic planning is a standard exercise at many, if not most, associations/nonprofit organizations. Do you have a strategic plan? Traditional strategic planning methodology is an old school approach that doesn’t address the root cause of most organizational challenges. Values aren’t steps in a plan.

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SCD Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

As we talked, I shared with him the “strategic intent process” I use with organizations seeking to envision their future and create steps to help them get there. Then, when reviewing my draft proposal, he said,“You need to remove ‘strategic’ from the proposal. my board is not comfortable with strategic planning!”

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Virtual

APRIL 19, 2021

During the COVID-19 pandemic, strategic planning became a critical need for many organizations. Jay & Greg give us tips on how to facilitate Zoom meetings and how to strategically plan. During the COVID-19 pandemic, strategic planning became a critical need for many organizations. New challenges emerged.

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Virtual

APRIL 19, 2021

During the COVID-19 pandemic, strategic planning became a critical need for many organizations. Jay & Greg give us tips on how to facilitate Zoom meetings and how to strategically plan. During the COVID-19 pandemic, strategic planning became a critical need for many organizations. New challenges emerged.

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Thanks For Playing

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Lots of chatter about strategy and strategic planning on the ASAE Collaborate groups recently, with lots of people throwing around lots of VERY IMPORTANT sounding terms. Strategy is a plan of action designed to help you achieve a set of goals. Me, I like simplicity. What do we mean when we talk about strategy?

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Spark Consulting

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Lots of chatter about strategy and strategic planning on the ASAE Collaborate groups recently, with lots of people throwing around lots of VERY IMPORTANT sounding terms. Strategy is a plan of action designed to help you achieve a set of goals. Me, I like simplicity. ” What do we mean when we talk about strategy?

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World Class Boards

APRIL 25, 2018

Strategic planning is a standard exercise at many, if not most, associations/nonprofit organizations. Do you have a strategic plan? Traditional strategic planning methodology is an old school approach that doesn’t address the root cause of most organizational challenges. Values aren’t steps in a plan.

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Association Success

APRIL 15, 2020

With modern technology and a good facilitation plan, you can still bring people together to think strategically and co-create for the future. Strategic thinking is best done in groups, not by one or two people. But it can be effective with a little planning and ingenuity. No, it is not quite the same.

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AMR Management Services

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Strategic planning sessions have been a staple in the for-profit and nonprofit arena for many years. While some question their usefulness referring to the current plan as a.

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Association Success

JANUARY 17, 2019

Does strategic planning create unwarranted concern in your association? Does a strategic plan conjure up visions of fat binders, death by meeting, rigid guidelines, longer than ever to-do lists, and fancy charts that detract from your true mission? Can an association get by without strategic planning?

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PROPEL

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

That means that your organization’s strategic plan is essentially a cultural artifact. Anyone you share that plan with will see what your culture is like. Your culture should be designed to drive the success of your organization, just like your strategy should be. Unfortunately, for a lot of.

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Association Strong

MARCH 30, 2021

What do you think of when someone says the words “Strategic Plan”? Tom Morrison’s association formalized their strategic plan in 2006 and have revisited it every two years since. What do you think of when someone says the words “Strategic Plan”?

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Associations Now

AUGUST 17, 2017

The Toy Association recently underwent a complete overhaul, which included creating a new strategic plan. Here are four tips from Pasierb about how to successfully design and implement a new strategic plan: Listen to a diversity of viewpoints. Create a strategic plan with quantifiable metrics.

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Association Strong

JANUARY 25, 2022

All value and engagement in associations point back to a strategic plan that aligns goals, action steps, metrics and execution that work together to create a vibrant association that is making a difference for their members. Strategy doesn't just happen. Strategy doesn't just happen.

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Eric Lanke

APRIL 27, 2015

Well, as the title of this blog post suggests, it is not another pseudonym for our strategic plan. Unlike too many strategic plans in the association world, our Strategy Agenda doesn't deal at all with what we intend to do. Now, in our discussions, there is no Strategic Plan. Our Strategy Agenda. What is it?

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Smooth The Path

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

It was time to revisit the strategic plan. In preparation for other strategic planning processes the association conducted quantitative member surveys but found the results were not all that actionable because there continued to be so many unanswered questions. Defining goals. Listening to members.

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Leading Associations

AUGUST 6, 2019

Strategic planning is a standard exercise at many, if not most, associations/nonprofit organizations. Do you have a strategic plan? Not only that, most traditional planning methodologies are not strategic to begin with and put the focus of leadership in the wrong place. Values aren’t steps in a plan.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 23, 2019

Strategic planning. Perhaps scarred by a past planning effort, many nonprofit leaders and board members describe lengthy, laborious and ultimately ineffectual processes that failed to translate their organizational vision into reality,” Gregory Nielsen explains on the Bloomerang blog. “But And that plan starts with purpose.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 9, 2017

Your communication strategy isn’t so strategic if you’re not measuring it against specific goals. If you can’t immediately rattle off a list of goals and key performance indicators (KPIs) that your communication plan is being measured against, then it may not be as strategic as you think it is. Shake It Up.

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Virtual

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Too many professional associations function without a strategic plan. Without strategic planning, an organization lurches from priority to priority, depending on who has the loudest voice at the Board table; volunteers are frustrated, and critical goals go unmet. It doesn’t have to be. They define key metrics.

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Smooth The Path

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Every conversation, every plan, every action should be about what is essential. Or is your association more like Association Z where you have the luxury of planning what you would like to do? The post Using Association Health to Guide Strategic Planning appeared first on Smooth The Path. Not Association A.

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Association Success

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Spelling out a strategic and sustainable framework for associations. As structured organizations themselves, associations too, like their corporate counterparts, need to be strategic and sustainable. In “Business Associations for the 21st Century”, the Washington, D.C.-based

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Principled Innovation

JULY 11, 2012

During the more than twenty years I have worked in and with associations, it is my guess that organizations throughout our community have committed millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of hours of staff and voluntary leader time to generate tens of thousands of pages of strategic plans and related documents.

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Eric Lanke

JANUARY 23, 2012

Stop Calling It Strategic Planning. But dare I start with the endlessly controversial subject of strategic planning? I need to stop calling what my association does strategic planning. To illustrate, lets tackle the honest truths of traditional strategic planning one at a time. image source.

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Virtual

OCTOBER 2, 2013

And even though it should be the driving force behind your professional association’s agenda, strategic plans are often lacking in their most basic elements—including the imperative to stay current. Absent a strategic plan, technology will pass you by. New technology brings new opportunity. .

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AMR Management Services

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

One way AMR assists associations is by putting support and accountability behind strategic plans and goals. Our process-orientation and structured approach allows us to break down strategic plans.

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AMR Management Services

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

One way AMR assists associations is by putting support and accountability behind strategic plans and goals. Our process-orientation and structured approach allows us to break down strategic plans.'

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Aaron Wolowiec

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Whether your association has just recently penned a new strategic plan or you’re three or more years into a long-term strategic planning cycle (however impractical that may be given today’s environment), do me a favor and locate this document. Member learning is not well-represented in the strategic plan.

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Jamie Notter

AUGUST 1, 2012

In a keynote session last week about Humanize , I once again challenged the effectiveness of strategic planning. For strategic planning, please read Henry Mintzberg’s The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning.). (For That seems to be what we are doing with strategic planning.

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Portage Group

MARCH 28, 2012

Discuss how you can develop a strategic plan that is effective, easy-to-follow and that gets everyone excited and pulling on the same set of oars to help turn your Association’s strategy into a reality. Because I know you want to develop a plan that works.and that doesn''t make everyone want to press the snooze button!

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Portage Group

MARCH 21, 2012

All you ED’s out there have been here: it’s 2:30pm, you have a belly full of roast beef from lunch and despite the gallon of coffee you’ve been ingesting steadily since your strategic session began this morning at 8am, you are getting sleeeeeepy. I love this planning space. You look around at your board members.

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The Association 100

MARCH 24, 2024

In our Association Insights video series , I dive into the art of making a mark with strategic media planning. Ultimately, strategic media efforts will deliver tangible results. In association communications, one question stands out: How can we impress our board with our media efforts?

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The Association 100

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Discover the secrets to successful association strategic planning in our latest video with Elisa Pratt, CEO, Brewer Pratt Solutions. And to me it also conveys a willingness to fail,” shares Pratt when describing the need to think of strategic planning through a new lens of strategic agility.

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Associations Now

MAY 3, 2024

Strategic planning is often a function of thinking about this current headwind, or that current membership trend. A plan tries to set a goal for the future, but it often doesn’t look far beyond the present. In 2020, ASLA developed a strategic plan that set a vision for where the organization would be in ten years.

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