PRAXIS - Building Knowledge for Action - facilitates exciting and transformative learning processes to sustain vibrant organizations and communities. We achieve this mission using the following tools: program evaluation, community-based research, strategic planning, organizational assessment, educational workshops, and other specialized services.

Strategic Planning

Strategic planning is the process by which an organization’s leaders determine where the organization is now, what it would like to be in the future and how it will get there. In other words, a collaborative vision is developed for the organization’s future and priorities, procedures, and operations are established to achieve the vision. It is a process of organizational self-assessment, and confronting difficult choices and establishing priorities to set a course leaders believe is important, wise, and achievable.

 

Benefits of Strategic Planning

  • Clearly defines the purpose of the organization and establishes realistic goals and objectives consistent with its mission. This is done so in a defined time frame within the organization's capacity for implementation.
  • Communicates goals and objectives to the organization's constituents
  • Develops a sense of ownership of the plan
  • Ensures the most effective use of the organization's resources by focusing on key priorities
  • Provides a base from which progress can be measured and establishes a mechanism for informed change when needed
  • It is an opportunity to listen to everyone's opinion in order to build consensus about where the organization is going

 

maxpointingpsfcThere are many different approaches to strategic planning and no one model works for all organizations.

 

We work with clients to decide on a strategic planning process that works best for their organization, and we encourage the involvement of key leaders in the organization to ensure implementation and ownership of the plan.