participatory strategic planning

Clear purpose isn't a destination – it's your reason for being. Learn how personal clarity of purpose creates alignment for yourself and your organization.

Adding new processes on top of an outdated operating matrix is like building a new app on an old system – the old one slows everything down.

Rooted in indigenous wisdom from around the world, the Medicine Wheel Tool forms the foundation of nearly all of Dalar's organizational development work.

Between strategic goals and operational planning, there is a critical missing step. Skipping it is one of the most consistent reasons strategic plans fail to get executed.

Referring to people as "talent" to be driven toward goals misses the outliers, the innovators, and the passionate contributors who actually make strategy execution happen.

Non-profits that choose co-operation partnerships carefully achieve what they could not accomplish alone. The board of directors has a specific role in making those partnerships succeed.

The best ideas on non-profit boards often emerge in the parking lot after the meeting. That pattern is a reliable sign the decision-making model needs to change.

Three questions define the direction for everything a non-profit board does. When members give different answers to each, the gap between potential and results becomes predictable.

"We can't afford another strategic planning process – the last one exhausted us." When this is the situation, a strategic plan refresh is often what's actually needed.

Preparing a three-hour session on the new leadership paradigm surfaces a familiar challenge: keeping it simple. The ego resists simplicity. The best leadership often requires it anyway.