Community Impact Planning
Helping your clients plan for strength and power in challenging times
A special webinar for CONSULTANTS ONLY
In uncertain times, planning is MORE IMPORTANT than ever.
How can you help your consulting clients find strength and confidence in the face of uncertainty?
How can the plans you create help organizations step into the power they DO have?
In these scary times, the answer will be found in...
- Plans that build on possibility and community.
- Plans that build on strengths and power that leaders may not realize they have.
And traditional strategic planning
was never intended for any of that!
Did you know...
Traditional strategic planning was developed by the military, then embraced by the business world. It was designed for gaining strategic advantage over an enemy (the competition) to create short term gains (win a battle, increase profits).
That is the OPPOSITE of what is needed right now.
- When we are living in scarcity, the answer is each other.
- When we are living with uncertainty, the answer is what is constant - the north star of our community's aspirations.
- When the present is scary, the answer lies in working to create a more healthy, humane future.
In these times, we can create plans that simultaneously build strength for now, while creating a path to the future our communities hope for.
That is what Community Impact Planning is all about.
What is this Webinar? Who is it for?
This webinar is for consultants who want to help their clients step into their POWER in these dark times.
If you are leading / facilitating "strategic" planning sessions for community benefit organizations, this class is especially for you.
Through the jam-packed resources in this unique webinar, you will be able to immediately facilitate groups to aim simultaneously at short-term confidence and the long-term health of their communities.
What You'll Learn:
- How to respond to a community’s current needs while simultaneously taking steps towards long-term systemic change
- How to help organizations see the power they have when they are feeling powerless
- Steps organizations can take to avoid unintended circumstances
- Who to include in your planning, to make the plan as inclusive - and therefore as powerful - as possible
- When to gather data when the current reality keeps shifting
- How to ensure your plans are strength-based (and why traditional strategic planning is weakness-based)
- How to simultaneously react to what is wrong while also creating a step-by-step path towards what is possible
- How to ensure there is capacity to implement the plan
- How to turn an organization's vision for their community into achievable goals and objectives, especially when that vision feels impossible
Plus tips for you as the consultant:
- How to talk with prospective clients about Community Impact Planning (vs. traditional strategic planning)
- How to facilitate the plan
- What to expect from the board and staff (it's often different for each of them!)
- And so much more!!
How It Works (And What this Learning Opportunity Includes)...
This unique learning experience will combine a "flipped classroom" approach with live instruction.
The flipped classroom will provide the theoretical basis for your planning - basic content about applying the Catalytic Thinking framework to organizational planning. That information will be provided the moment you register, to give you time to absorb the material at your own pace. We find this makes the live portion of the webinar far more effective, as you have slow time to think about how you might apply the material to your own situation, and to formulate questions, all at your own pace. The content includes everything listed below.
Then during our live time together, we will have a full 2 hours for Q&A and discussion. We have limited the seating for this event, to ensure maximum participation. The live portion will be recorded and provided to you in both video and audio-only.
After the webinar, you will have the open invitation to ask our faculty any quick questions that arise while you are putting what you learned into practice. And that invitation extends FOREVER!
Here's what you'll get...
Tuition
In the spirit of Collective Enoughness - that together we have everything we need - YOU will determine the tuition for this webinar.
On the registration form, you’ll see a "suggested" tuition. You will also see the ability to choose a different amount that is entirely up to you.
“No less than you believe it’s worth,
and no more than you can afford.”
~ Gayle Valeriote, founding board member, Creating the Future
No one will be turned away.
Because we never want money to stand between you and learning approaches that will help to create a more humane, healthy future for our world.
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