"Success is a journey, not a destination."

This declaration is attributed to one of pro-football's most intrepid coaches, Vince Lombardi.

For Seven Centers, enduring organizational success is the result of steadfast commitment to the journey of work, which leverages the product of that work.


The journey of work involves creating an organizational community that is focused, transparent, and enabling.

Focus is the result of astute planning; transparency the result of clear communication; ability the result of talent, training, and flawless teamwork.

Our Intrepid Organization™ programs offer leaders and organizations custom-designed opportunities to enhance their planning, communication, training, and teamwork.

The guarantee is higher performance, leading to greater mission impact.


Seven Centers SMART! Plan™ Program

Your strategic/business plan is your mission game plan. Without it, your organization can't play an intrepid game.

Are you fully deploying your plan? Is it gathering dust on the shelf?

We invite you to take your plan off the shelf - especially if it's been 3 or 5 years - and work with us to transform it into the most valuable working document you will utilize to guide your organization's future.

In the SMART! Plan Program, we facilitate a strategic planning team of key stakeholders in your organization to engage in a three to six month process that generally includes: 

• Assessing your internal and external environments
• Revitalizing your organizational vision, mission, and organizational values
• Creating a profile of your organizationin 3 to 5 years
• Identifying and prioritizing 3 to 5 year strategic goals and objectives
• Developing an implementation (tactical) plan
• Developing a resource mobilization plan (finances, personnel, etc.)
• Establishing monitoring and evaluation indicators

Our deliverables are a creative and rigorous process that builds community, and a solid and actionable plan.

 

Coach Lombardi understood how successful teamwork makes achieving one's mission a thrill. He said, "People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."

A special team with a unique role to play is the non-profit board of directors. Board membership is an important form of civic participation in our communities. Commitment to their organization's mission is foremost. It is equally important that each board member fully understands and expedites the duties expected of membership. This is critical to the health and stability of a non-profit mission.

Many boards, despite their enthusiasm and good intentions, lack the knowledge and skill to be effective catalysts for their non-profit mission.

Does this describe your board?

The SMART! Non-Profit Leadership Program is a six to twelve month engagement aimed at building the leadership capacity of your board. Based on an assessment of your organization’s leadership needs, we develop program that may address any or all of the following board duties:

• Orienting your board to governance roles and responsibilities
• Facilitating the review and, if necessary, the revision of your organization’s By-Laws
• Establishing your organization's mission and setting strategic direction
• Facilitating development of a comprehensive 3 to 5 year strategic and/or resource development plan
• Contributing to and monitoring implementation of action plans
• Assuring your organization's professional and ethical standards
• Representing your organization in your community
• Assuring Executive and Board recruitment and growth
   

• Establishing your company's TBL "baseline
• Assessing strengths and opportunities for TBL performance improvement
• Generating a TBL strategy aimed at transforming your business into a "Company of Choice"
• Devising and implementing a TBL Tactical Plan
• Preparing reports utilizing TBL formats, including the Global Reporting Initiative