(Harvard professor)
Session 5
The guru of strategic planning ! Read more about him hereAt best we're ineffective - at worst we cause harm" - Michael Porter on the church
How do we do well at doing good?
Our organizations (churches) get involved in many many things and create chaos by not truly addressing the needs of the people.
Strategic Principles
We must shift our mindset - the mindset of charity & philanthropy
We must believe we're doing them a service - customer service
We must put ourselves in the shoe of the recipient
Important Questions -
Have we clearly defined what our goals are ?
What set of community services and needs should we attend to?
Whats our strategy in executing? delivering value ?
How do we get the organization to align / to make choices?
Good intentions are not enough ... charity is not enough.
We create value if we uses the resources to create social benefit
We need to ask ourselves: where can we do the most good with the best resources we have?
If someone is doing a good job at something - support them. Partner with other churches/organizations.
Where can we do more than just giving money? or unskilled labor?
Things that get in the way of strategic services:
1. Lack of clarity on our goal
2. Lack of focus
3. Misplaced resources
4. Lack of partnership
It's the churches job to motivate the outside communitty/organizations to do good.
In other words ....
PARTNERING WITH PEOPLE IN REACHING THEIR GOD POTENTIAL!
Way ahead of you Porter .... j/k - Great lecture - I wish I could've seen the teaching slides though - it would've helped. Porter needs to go church though ... I might send him a link to our internet campus.
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