Strategic Alignment

Monthly, quarterly and yearly checkups are a key way you can evaluate your ministry action plans. Take time to review your plan on a regular basis to make sure your objectives, goals, strategies, action plans and measures are strategically aligned. Use the four S’s to check your work:

• Synchronization – Do objectives, goals, strategies and measures have strategic alignment?
• Sufficiency – Are strategies and measures sufficient to achieve your objectives?
• Selectivity – Is your strategy selective? Does it communicate what you’re not going to do?
• Sustainability – Are your strategies and action plans sustainable?
  
  

• Is our strategy aligned with our vision?
• Does it harmonize with our values?
  
  

Carefully assess whether the strategies and measures outlined in your plan are sufficient to achieve your objectives.

• Are your plans too conservative?
• Are your plans too bold?
• What adjustments are needed to reach our goals?
  
  

• What will we say “no” to?
• What will we say “yes” to?
  
  

• Do we have a sustainable strategy?
• Will our action plans produce growth?
• What adjustments are required to make our plans more sustainable?