By Amber Alarid, JVA Consulting

Strategic planning seems like a good idea to almost everyone, yet for one reason or another, most organizations either never create and adopt a strategic plan or they have one sitting on a shelf or a hard drive where it provides about as much guidance as last year’s printed copy of the Yellow Pages.

Why is that?

If you are running a nonprofit or serving on a board in your “spare time,” you probably don’t feel like you have enough time for long-term planning or “visioning.”

Maybe you’ve spent a wasted day in a board retreat where the same old people said the same old things while others quietly nodded or shook their heads.

It is understandable that strategic planning might not be your top priority. It should be, though, because a good strategic plan can help get everyone in the organization not only on the same page, but excited about their role in helping to move the group in a positive direction.

On Thursday, January 29, JVA founder and president Janine Vanderburg will lead a three-hour class, Planning for Your Strategic Planning, that will help you figure out what you need to know to get to work creating a plan that will engage your key leaders and lead you toward building a more dynamic and more successful organization.

We’d love to see you.