Strategic Planning Courses

About this learning path...

Strategic planning is the process we use to enable our nonprofits to achieve their missions. It’s also the overarching ability–or capacity–to plan strategically over time.

Full participation in this certificate is applicable for 3 points in Category 1.B Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.

What You Will Learn

How strategic planning can be an action, an ability, and an adaptive leadership approach.

The role of adaptive strategy in nonprofit leadership.

How a culture of learning and being a learning organization can support your strategic planning effectiveness.

How to assess readiness for strategic planning across multiple dimensions, and put the elements of the "Theory of Change" model into practice.

Six phases of nonprofit strategic planning.

Using the strategic choice cascade in your planning work.

The role of self determination theory in motivating yourself and others around strategic planning efforts.

Recognizing how self-preservation, altruism, resistance and competition plays into your own (and your colleagues') motivation for strategic planning.

Who is this learning path for?

Strategic planning is a skill that all nonprofit professionals can participate in, whether through leadership or support. The courses within the strategic planning learning path will offer new perspective on traditional and current planning processes and approaches. You'll enjoy a unique consideration of how you and others may be motivated or resistant to the planning process and outcomes. The Theory of Change is introduced in this learning path as well.

This learning path explores the following Korn Ferry competencies: