Upgrading Strategic Planning and Management
Thinking it through
Ellen Miller Group excels at bringing together all the disparate groups that can influence your organization, and then helping each to see the value of working with others to accomplish joint goals.
"THANK YOU for your excellent assistance [in preparing a strategic plan and long-ierm space plan]. We simply could not have accomplished these things without your guidance and expertise." — Lisa Guedea Carreno, director, Harold and Wilma Good Library, Goshen College
Our strategic planning goal is simple: Help library clients create their own vision of their library's contributions to the community, taxpayers and other stakeholders.
Helping you bring it all together . . .
Participation by all — including civic leaders as well as library people — is the key to success.
a. Library trustees come and go. So do directors. How to keep them working in tandem? With an up-to-date strategic plan that informs budgeting, voting campaigns, trustee training, staffing and hours open — to name just a few uses. Ellen Miller has helped boards and directors create their own strategic plan based on participative planning. She doesn't prescribe, she facilitates. The outcome? A practical plan by your library, for your community.
Ellen Miller's strategic planning process includes:
- Maximum participation by staff, community and civic leaders.
- A realistic timeframe that keeps things moving while recognizing participants' commitments.
- Saving you money by advising of tasks that staff can perform, such as an environmental scan.
Among our strategic management tool are:
- Up-to-date policies and regulations.
- And effective performance evaluation method for the director.
- Dealing with a split board.
- Board self-evaluation.
- Positioning the library to be a community player.
Check out a sampling of our workshops and publications.
Interested? Contact us today.