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"Your vision will come clear only when
you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside, awakes."
~ Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist
So often, as we work toward fulfilling the mission of our organization, we forget the vision that will get us there.
We forget the forest, as we scrutinize the trees.
For an organization's Board of Directors, that's especially true.
That's why Board Retreats are vital to a nonprofit group's long-term success; they give the Board members an opportunity to look within their organization and identify long-term issues affecting the organization. This will also stimulate them to become more vested in the mission and in the vision of the organization.
The Board of Directors is charged with creating the vision for the organization and establishing a strategy to achieve that vision. They are the visionaries.
A friend of mine serves on a board, and noted that their membership had been declining over the past year. She shared her frustration with me, asking, "Why are we not - as a board - looking at the underlying reasons our membership is down? How it is affecting the sustainability of our organization?"
Those are valid questions to ask.
While the Board has the responsibility for assuring that the organization is accomplishing it current mission, it also must...read more
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