Strategic Planning Insights with Senior Consultant, Adrienne Jordan
As a Prouty Project Senior Consultant, Adrienne Jordan works with mission-driven organizations to develop their strategic plan. We recently sat down with Adrienne to capture her thoughts on the strategic planning process. Her insights are sure to inspire you! In your experience, what are the most common challenges organizations face during strategic […]
Prouty Project’s Strategic Planning
*Article also appears in The Prouty Pulse. On January 5th, the Twin Cities were walloped by 12.4 inches of snow. While this wasn’t a record-breaking snowstorm to celebrate, the Prouty team gathered inside the warm Four Seasons Minneapolis to celebrate our own record-breaking year and look to the future sunny skies of the organization. […]
Speak Colorfully
To Convey the Plan, Speak Colorfully Once upon a time, a senior leadership team went on a retreat to create their organization’s strategic plan. As the dust settled, and their compelling one-page plan stood proudly on a flipchart, the smile of exhausted contentment on the faces of the leadership team slowly faded. Now came […]
The Glue in Merging Cultures
Did you know that multiple thin strips of wood glued together are stronger and more stable than a single wood panel of the same width? For instance, gluing six 3-foot lengths of 1 x 3 lumber creates a final product less prone to cupping, twisting, and bowing than a single 18-inch wide panel of the […]
To Convey the Plan, Speak Colorfully
Once upon a time, a senior leadership team went on a retreat to create their organization’s strategic plan. As the dust settled, and their compelling one-page plan stood proudly on a flipchart, the smile of exhausted contentment on the faces of the leadership team slowly faded. Now came the really hard part: figuring out how […]