Strategic Planning Facilitation
Wastyn & Associates can help you figure out where your organization is today and help you design your desired future. Then we help you get there and evaluate your results.
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Strategic Planning Facilitation and Implementation
A comprehensive strategic plan helps you outline not just A future, but THE RIGHT future for your organization at this time. We don’t use a pre-packaged strategic planning approach but adjust to meet your unique needs.
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Wastyn & Associates' experienced strategic planning facilitators take you, your staff, board and clients through a comprehensive process that is inclusive, participative, and based on your needs and desires. A well-designed and executed process builds group cohesion and trust, strengthens organizational loyalty and knowledge, and reinforces positive team dynamics. At Wastyn & Associates, we spend a lot of time assuring a healthy group process, taking the time needed to achieve consensus – without getting overinvolved in unimportant details. Participants look at the underlying assumptions of their positions to find consensus or compromise where they may not have realized commonality existed.
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A good strategic plan places your organization within its broader environment: the clients you serve, your geographic community, and your industry. It helps you see how you can leverage your organization's strengths to take advantage of emerging opportunities that obviate pending threats or organizational weaknesses.
Our comprehensive strategic planning consultation works with you and your board to identify where you can excel, where gaps exist in the environment that you can fill, and how you can harness those strengths to take your organization to the next level.
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At Wastyn & Associates, we stay with you for one year after you complete a strategic plan, making sure the plan doesn't just sit on the shelf but your hard work gets implemented.
Already completed a planning process? Many strategic planning consultants leave you with a book full of great ideas that have large price tags, but they do not help you figure out how to grow your financial capacity to make these ideas happen. Let Wastyn & Associates help you expand your organization’s capacity to implement the ideas that are important for your organization’s success with fundraising planning, wealth identification, grants development, and leadership development to teach you, your board, and your volunteers how to get more done in less time.
Linda has vast knowledge of nonprofit operations coupled with real world experience. She provided Spring Forward with a solid framework to help us reach our program, fundraising and other key objectives. She did this in a manner that minimized guess work, building on extensive community feedback and board strategic work sessions. The end result is a well thought through strategic plan.
- Dan McNeil, Executive Director, Spring Forward
“There is simply no way we would’ve grown so well and so effectively without the help of Linda and Wastyn Associates. She consistently gives generously of her time, expertise, and resources whenever we need help with grants, understanding fundraising concepts, board development and/or organizational dynamics – and frequently all of these at once!”
Regina Haddock, Founder and Executive Director, Dress for Success Quad Cities
“Linda Wastyn has been a huge resource for MidCoast Fine Arts. It has been a pleasure to work with her and feel confident when she's completing grant work for MidCoast that it will be through, timely, and accurate.”
- MidCoast Fine Arts
Linda’s research was detailed, presented with a robust and accurate depiction of the community, professional and purposeful. I highly recommend Linda Wastyn for your research, planning, and public engagement preparations. She has an abundance of experience with non-profit organizations and the like, and her services, personal touch, and expertise are outstanding.
-Kim Kidwell, Family Museum
“Working with Linda and Wastyn & Associates staff has been a fantastic experience. We appreciate their expertise and guidance, and we are very pleased with Linda’s grant writing services. She is thorough and keeps everyone focused, on task, and on time. Their team is an important part of our success!”
Liz Dierolf, Director of Advancement Communication & Stewardship
“With a vast understanding of cultural organizations, Linda was able to navigate through complex information to help our organization achieve our statewide strategic planning goals. Her experience was an excellent fit in helping us develop a framework along with a public feedback process which resulted in detailed findings and recommendations that were critical in setting our strategic direction.”
- Susan Kloewer, Administrator, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs
“Wastyn & Associates helped RME refocus on our mission and expand our donor base with a comprehensive strategic plan. Their fundraising expertise was invaluable.”
- Alex Burkamper, River Music Experience
"Wastyn and Associates has given One Eighty the opportunity to not only increase revenue but more importantly given us a platform we didn't have before. Not only has she helped us achieve the financial stability to take those steps, but also the Strategic and Fundraising Plan to sustain our growth.”
- Rusty Boruff, Founder and Executive Director, One Eighty
“Linda Wastyn led us through strategic planning at Sacred Heart Parish. She was able to take people with diverse opinions and backgrounds and bring us to consensus. We appreciate the gifts she had for drawing our plan together.”
- Fr. Mark DeSutter, Pastor, Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Moline, IL
“Linda was instrumental in the development of our strategic plan, which is helping our organization become better and stronger. She provided direction, while also providing the crucial accountability that our Board needed for successful implementation of this plan.”
- Beth Grabin, President-Elect, 2017-2018 Junior League Board