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Refining Your Organizations Goals

Is Your Organization All Going to the Same Place?

Saturday, our company, The Toolbox, Inc. (all 4 of us) gathered for a couple of hours to participated in a workshop with Susan Hammond, working together to clarify what our company is about and direction for our future.

We are a virtual company, so I think it is something really important for us to do, as when we do get together we tend to the day-to-day operations, and assume that we are all on the same page about “direction.”

I think that is the case for some of the non-profit organizations I am involved with. We go from one “project” to the next, do what we did last year, (but better), and check off what we have done for the year.

The real challenge is to review-revisit your core values, your “big hairy audacious goals” and know that all the board members are all working towards the same goal.

Then if there is a disconnect, then as a board member, you may need to “self-select” yourself out of the organization.

But now back to TTBI (The Toolbox, Inc)…we had all been giving reading and homework to do before we met, and the fact that we all came prepared, showed to me the dedication we all have to this “project.” As a new company, we were all anxious to see if we were all on the same “page.” We all are equal partners, so it is important to alway feel that we are moving in the same direction.

When we are all clear, a decision that one of us as makes an individual for the company, gives that person the conviction that the other partners will back that decision.

What is your non-profit doing to make sure that your leadership is all operating in unison? How do you do a “check-up” on your core values, mission & goals? How often do you do it?