Your team shares a mission. But does it share a direction?
Facilitated workshops for nonprofit and social enterprise leadership teams to work through competing priorities and agree on practical next steps.
A shared mission does not make every decision straightforward.
Your team may agree on why the work matters while seeing different priorities, pressures, and possibilities.
When time and resources are limited, those differences can be difficult to work through in everyday meetings.
You do not need everyone to think alike. You need a way to make the important choices together.
Make space to decide what comes next.
The Mission Alignment Workshop is a three-week facilitated engagement that helps your leadership team clarify its purpose, address critical challenges, and prioritize practical experiments and next steps.
What your team leaves with
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Shared direction
A clear articulation of your purpose and distinctive contribution, grounded in your strengths and limitations.
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Principles for making choices
Agreed guiding principles to help your team make consistent decisions about priorities and action.
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A practical next-step roadmap
Prioritized experiments, documented decisions, and an executive summary your team can refer back to.
Four workshops. One connected strategy.
Each session builds on the last, connecting your purpose to the challenges you need to address and the actions you will take.
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Workshop 1
Purpose
What change are we here to contribute to?
Clarify the purpose that guides your organization and the distinctive contribution you are here to make.
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Workshop 2
Challenges
What is getting in the way?
Identify the critical challenges standing between your organization and its goals, including the strengths and limitations shaping your options.
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Workshop 3
Experiments
What can we test?
Develop small, practical tests to explore ways forward and learn before committing more time and resources.
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Workshop 4
Action Steps
What will we prioritize next?
Prioritize the experiments and translate strategic choices into a coordinated roadmap for action.
What the engagement involves
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Week 1
Discover and align
Onboarding, decision-maker and team interviews, technical preparation, and the first workshop on Purpose.
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Week 2
Define and decide
Three workshops on Challenges, Experiments, and Action Steps, with synthesis and validation work between sessions.
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Week 3
Document and hand over
Workshop documentation, an executive summary, a living record of the work, and a facilitated handover.
Your team’s participation
Plan for a decision-maker interview, individual team interviews, a technical preflight, four approximately half-day workshops, and a handover workshop.
We will discuss the participants, scheduling, and fit before confirming an engagement.
What would help your team move forward?
Let’s talk about the decisions you are facing, where your team needs clarity, and whether this workshop is a fit.
You do not need to arrive with everything figured out.
This is an introductory conversation, not the workshop itself.
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