by Stephanie Freeth | May 5, 2020 | Emotional Intelligence
“Stephanie, you’d be more successful if you embraced your ‘I don’t know’ persona.” This was feedback I got last year that rattled me. It felt like a gut punch. What do you mean my “I don’t know” persona? I’m a strategic planner. I make a living...
by Stephanie Freeth | Apr 11, 2018 | Best of series, Strategic Planning
Is your nonprofit organization assessing your strategic planning readiness? There are a handful of green or red light indicators that can predict whether or not a nonprofit organization is ready to move ahead with a full strategic planning process. Leaders of...
by Stephanie Freeth | Nov 1, 2016 | Governance, Metrics, Strategic Planning
For the last few weeks I have enjoyed working with the Michigan Nonprofit Association (MNA) to help update their Principles and Practices (P&P) tool. Any nonprofit organization or consultant who is a member of the Michigan Nonprofit Association has access to this...
by Stephanie Freeth | Apr 13, 2016 | Governance, Strategic Planning, Strategy
It is widely believed in strategic theory that operational effectiveness is not strategy, but I started to wonder if this really applies to the nonprofit sector in practical terms. What got me thinking about this is my recent work with three different nonprofit...
by Stephanie Freeth | Mar 29, 2016 | Governance, Leadership, Strategic Planning
An important study called The Nonprofit Sector Leadership Report was recently released by The Concord Leadership Group LLC. To me the scariest finding from the study is that 49% of nonprofits lack a strategic plan. As someone who does strategic planning with...
