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    5 Tips To Ensure Your Strategic Plan Stays On Track 

    December 1 2022

    The hardest thing about strategic planning isn’t creating the plan, it’s implementing it. But we’ve got good news: there are steps you can take during the planning process to ensure that your...

    Measuring Your Strategic Plan With Key Performance Indicators

    November 3 2022

    Measurement is an essential element of strategic planning because it offers a declaration of intent: This is where we’re going as an organization, and here’s how we’ll know when we get there.

    Improving Board Engagement with Strategic Planning

    October 20 2022

    The central purpose of today’s boards doesn’t differ much from what it’s been in the past. Board members are stewards of an organization’s mission and vision, tasked with ensuring that the college,...

    4 Ingredients for Seeding Sustainable Change in Your Organization

    October 5 2022

    Wherever there’s smoke, there’s fire—and whenever an organization embarks on a strategic plan, there’s bound to be change. In many cases, organizational change is approached in a heavy-handed way,...

    Five Ways to Authentically Engage Your Community in Strategic Planning

    September 14 2022

    A president once told our planning team during a strategic planning kickoff meeting, “We all know that we can sit here and in a half-day come up with our top strategic goals—but that would do no...

    Sharing Strategy: Internal Communication & Strategic Planning

    December 13 2021

    What Does Your Community Know About Your Strategic Plan? If you asked any member of your campus community about your strategic plan, would they know your vision and the things that are most important...

    20 Questions for Strategic Planning Readiness

    May 11 2021

    BY MATTHEW TRENT TRAINUM, ED.D. When is the right time to undergo a new strategic planning process? In the past, this was a (deceptively) straightforward question, even if it didn't always feel that...

    The Emerging Role of Institutional Identity in Partnerships & Mergers

    July 2 2020

    “We’re coming to the table holding nothing sacred,” said one president, sharing that their institution was deep in a merger conversation with another college in their region. “Not the mascots, not...

    Strategy in the summer of COVID

    June 9 2020

    While stuck at home these many weeks, board games have come out of the closet to give our family a bit of comfort and whimsy. On the table at my house, we’ve had a few different games rotating...

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    February 14 2020

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    Partnerships & Placebuilding In Rural Higher Education

    January 29 2020

    One of the most obvious distinctions of rural colleges is that they are distant from an urban center, and with this comes smaller populations, economic challenges, and, oftentimes, financial distress.
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