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Become Your Own CEO
◗ Assess role. Define the trade association’s role in serving its members. How does it serve? How has its service changed? Why do members join?
Why do members stay? What value
do members derive from the trade association?
◗ Define future. Review and analyze how the leadership and the team has defined the trade association’s current status, identity and role and based on this input and analysis, define its future. What is its future? What are its goals? What are its aspirations? How does it want it be defined? How does it want to be known? Where will it be in 10 years? 20? 30? What is its trajectory?
◗ Define goals. Based on the trade association’s goals, define long, medium and short term goals.
◗ Create action steps. Define action steps and tasks to complete each goal, assign someone responsible to perform and oversee each task and create deadlines for each task.
◗ Create accountability. Create a plan to hold everyone accountable to complete the tasks assigned to them.
◗ Assess the plan. Regularly assess the plan and determine whether it needs to be revamped, changed or tweaked and if so, how.
Prepare a Strategic Plan for Your House of Worship
Initiate strategic planning at your house of worship. Secure the buy in from the leadership (both the clergy and the lay leadership) and the team and facilitate the creation and implementation of a strategic plan. How does a house of worship engage in strategic planning?
◗ Assess current status. Survey the leadership and team to determine
the current status of your house of worship. What population does it serve? How does it serve them? What are its demographics? How have those demographics changed? How much does it draw from the immediate surrounding community? How about beyond that? From where does it
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generate donations? How does it generate revenue? What is its size, in terms of members and congregants? How has that changed over the last years? 10 years?
Assess identity. Discuss the house
of worship’s mission, vision, values, principles and purpose. Review how these have changed and why. Why was
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