Planning is important, but only as much as it translates into clear, measurable, and valuable action.
Understand, enhance, and integrate the skills and tools reflected and utilized by highly effective boards.
Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations and Results (SOAR) is a positive, action-oriented approach to uncover community and organizational assets, identify goals, and stimulate action.
Strategic Doing enables leaders to design and guide new networks that generate innovative solutions. It is a new strategy discipline that is lean, agile and fast—just what organizations, communities and regions need to survive and thrive.” Developed by the Agile Strategy Lab, Strategic Doing believes that “collaboration is essential to meet the complex challenges we face”.
Asset mapping is a visual depiction of a community’s strengths and resources intended to:
Community-focused programs may have immediate and direct benefits but often have related and substantial indirect benefits. Work done by communities have ripples of impacts that change culture, policy, and people’s lives in sometimes unanticipated ways. Ripple Effects Mapping is a way to capture all the intended and unintended benefits of programs while harvesting rich, detailed stories that illustrate those benefits.