Strategic Planning for Social Change Leaders – A Practical Guide

Overview

The viability of a social venture depends on more practical factors than the passion and motivation behind its existence. Strategic plans are realistic, coherent and detailed roadmaps for achieving the goals of a social venture. Such plans will incorporate outlines of the organization’s goals and provide directions on achieving these goals. This training will force you to take a deep dive to consider the journey ahead thoroughly. It will challenge and provide you with tools to critically examine your ideas’ viability and long-term validity. It emphasizes the need for a knowledge-based understanding of the various aspects of strategic planning. This course will help you create structure, long-term plans, set SMART goals and identify possible risks before they occur.

Learning Objective

This course will help you to:

1. Strategically consider the problem you are addressing and formulate a compelling problem statement 
2. Brainstorm possible solutions and identify the most viable.
3. Create or refine your new venture’s vision, mission, and core values.
4. Identify potential risks that may limit the success of your venture and create mitigation strategies. 
5. Develop a theory of change for your venture idea. 

Course Content and Duration

Segun Fatudimu facilitates the course. It contains five one-hour modules that you can be complete in two (2) weeks if you spend 30 mins on the training per day.