Monthly Archives: November 2021

When many organisations conduct a planning exercise, they start with their goals for next year. They know their organisation so well, "This is what we need to do" they say. Unfortunately, we believe that this approach actually creates the stop-start phenomena that we see many Indigenous organisations enter into. Each year, there is a new set of goals to "fix" things or to "develop" new services or ideas. But each year, these new goals take the organisation in sometimes subtle, sometimes markedly different directions. So from year to year, the organisation is taken from one direction to another creating a stop-start culture. What the organisation needs to do is to take each step progressively toward achieving its purpose for existence. And there is only one measure of whether this is done effectively - "Are you getting closer to your Vision each time?" (more…)...