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Clarity: Your Mission Matters

Clarity: Your Mission Matters. The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization - Peter Drucker (with others). Decisions through the lens of your mission. What if we disappeared tonight?

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Clarity: Your Mission Matters

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  1. Clarity: Your Mission Matters The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization - Peter Drucker (with others)

  2. Decisions through the lens of your mission • What if we disappeared tonight? • What would the world, the community, or individuals regret having lost? - Tom Ahern http://aherncomm.com • What would this organization be doing, that it’s not doing already, if money were no object? - Pamela Jones Davidson • http://www.giftplanners.com/davidson_gift_design/ • Who Do We Serve? • What is Our Core Strength? • What is Our Core Score? • What Actions Can We Take Today? The One Thing You Need to Know …About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success - Marcus Buckingham http://www.tmbc.com/

  3. Mission in Mind: Program Review Source: Kate Barr, Nonprofits Assistance Fund

  4. Clarity: Your Values Matter Our organizational values over the past 5 years (top 15, most important at the top): The values we would like to live (in the future / always): • Are we “living” our most important values? (My most important values?) • What barriers are preventing us from “living” our core values? (My core values?) • What is out of balance in our organization? (In my life?) • To get more balance, in what areas should we grow? (Should I grow?) • What specific actions can we take to gain more balance? (Can I take?) • How have our values shifted over time? (How have my values shifted?) For more information on planning with values, see Dennis Jaffe’s The Values Edge(SM) card system: www.dennisjaffe.com. Using a deck of 56 cards, each with a separate value, The Values Edge(SM) system allows a user to sort and prioritize their values.

  5. Values: Organizationally, Personally? Creativity Culture Curiosity Dignity Diligence Determination Education Empowerment Enjoyment Environment Ethical Excellence Expertise Expression Fairness Faith Family Financial Security Forgiveness Freedom (personal?) Friendship Frugality Fun Future Generosity Growth (personal?) Happiness Harmony Healing Health (physical / emotional) Helping Honesty Honor Hope Relaxation Respect Responsibility Safety Security Service Simplicity Sincerity Social Responsibility Solitude Spirituality Spontaneity Stability Status Stewardship Strength Surprise Support Sustainability Teaching Thoughtfulness Thought leadership Tolerance Tradition Transformation Trust Uniqueness Vision Wealth Wisdom Winning Wholesome Work-Life Balance __________________ __________________ • Acceptance • Accountability • Achievement • Adventure • Affordability • Ambition • Animal rights • Appearance • Approval • Artistry • Authentic • Autonomy • Balance • Beauty • Belonging • Boldness • Career • Challenge • Charm • Clarity • Collaboration • Commitment • Communication • Community • Compassion • Competence • Completion • Confidence • Conformity • Connection • Connectivity • Consistency • Conflict Resolution • Control • Courage Humor Imagination Independence Influence Ingenuity Innocence Integrity Joy Knowledge Laughter Leadership Learning Love Loyalty Making a Difference Mobility Moderation Modest Objective Open Mindedness Opportunity Optimism Originality Partnership Passion Peace Persistence Play Pleasure Power Privacy Prosperity Purity Rebellion Recognition

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