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I am totally excited to be presenting today for Technical Assistance Partnership which provides an opportunity for non-profit team members to learn collaboratively. Here are four of the areas that past teams have focused on:
Strategic Planning
A TAP group on organizational strategic planning:
- Views the future as unpredictable.
- Views planning as an ongoing process.
- Emphasizes strategic development tools (such as SWOT analysis).
Based on the current environmental context, each participant is guided to answering the question “how best can we use our resources to achieve our mission?”
Organizational Planning
A TAP group on organizational organizational planning is centered on program design and evaluation in contrast to an overall strategic plan. Organizational planning teams:
- Focus on short-term (less than one-year) objectives.
- Develop detailed plans (what activities, accomplished by whom, accomplished how).
Based on the current environmental context, each participant is guided to answering the question “what do we need to be doing this year to best accomplish our mission?”
Alliances
Alliance-oriented TAP groups are formed when a group of agencies desires to collaborate on a shared issue such as improving foster care or strengthening a particular geographic area. The ingredients for an Alliance TAP Group:
- A common issue.
- Willingness to partner.
- An emerging understanding of how the collaborative whole can more effectively address the are of focus.
Alliance groups have historically produced breakthrough change.
Executive Director Roundtables
An Executive Director Roundtable is an environment for coaching, peer-counseling, problem-solving and relationship building that is uniquely focused on the leaders of nonprofit organizations.
Roundtables currently form three times each year. If you’d like to hear more or connect with our roundtable coach, contact us.
It’s a very cool concept and the people I have met to date have been great so I am excited for today’s presentation. I’ll be sure to update this post later in the day.
And if you attended today’s presentation and are visiting The Social Latte for the first time, WELCOME! Please be sure to take a look around and be sure to leave any feedback, comments or questions in the comments section below. The slide stack I used for the presentation is also posted below.
