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Using “Next Practices” To Secure Your Future

Using “Next Practices” To Secure Your Future. Family Promise Conference May, 2013 Kathy G. Stockburger Family Promise Associate kstockburger@cox.net. Session overview. Distinguishing between “best practices” and “next practices”

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Using “Next Practices” To Secure Your Future

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  1. Family Promise National Conference 2013 Using “Next Practices” To Secure Your Future Family Promise Conference May, 2013 Kathy G. Stockburger Family Promise Associate kstockburger@cox.net

  2. Family Promise National Conference 2013 Session overview • Distinguishing between “best practices” and “next practices” • Balancing “best practices” and “next practices” in planning, governance and operations • Developing strategies to identify trends, adapt to rapid change, and stay financially healthy

  3. Family Promise National Conference 2013 Best practices are… • those organizational activities that have been confirmed and valued for effectiveness. • those behaviors that have been shown to work in the past. • the strategies and actions that allow you to do what you are already doing better.

  4. Family Promise National Conference 2013 Next practices are… • those activities that enable your organization to innovate and meet challenges in new ways. • those practices that look forward rather than looking to the past. • those strategies that help to create the future.

  5. Family Promise National Conference 2013 Areas in which best practices work • Office/support services, e.g., payroll, purchasing • Human resources • Organizational policies and procedures, governance • Improving efficiencies in non-program areas

  6. Family Promise National Conference 2013 When to explore using next practices • In those areas that are essential to your core program or mission • When you are attempting to, or must, address a significant issue • When you wish to design your future

  7. Family Promise National Conference 2013 Best practices as a foundation Using best practicesin mission or core program areas will help move the Affiliate toward next practicesin those areas. Next practices can spring from best practices.

  8. Family Promise National Conference 2013 Leap forward opportunities • How do you determine your Affiliate’s “leap forward” opportunities? • What is a key challenge your Affiliate has unsuccessfully addressed? • How have your efforts (or best practices when used) been ineffective?

  9. Family Promise National Conference 2013 Impact of using next practices • How will finding a new way to address a key issue impact our Affiliate? • Our guests and congregations? • Enhance our position in the community? • Our financial sustainability?

  10. Family Promise National Conference 2013 Goal achievement • In what new and specific ways can we more effectively identify our goals? • In what fresh and targeted ways can we more effectivelyachieveour goals?

  11. Family Promise National Conference 2013 Small group discussion • Where does your Affiliate seek or use best practices? • What current issue(s) do you see needing new strategies, innovative thinking - next practices?

  12. Family Promise National Conference 2013 Summary and questions

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