Directions:
Prepare a three to four sentence mission statement to present to the next strategic planning meeting team. Send your statement to me via e-mail prior to the meeting.
Directions include, the three pieces included in the statement (doesn’t have to be in any certain order):
1) Purpose of the company (what do we seek to accomplish)
2) How we will accomplish the mission.
3) Beliefs and values of the organization.
Our last meeting was a brainstorming session:
1) Ideas for what we seek to accomplish include:
Making the world a better place by helping others
To be the best and well known provider of independent service coordination and
software programs to enhance the lives of consumer’s with developmental
disabilities.
To have the ability to craft best practices and reach a wider audience around the
world.
Bridge gaps between providers.
Seek to provide supports and services based on a team work model generating
innovative ideas.
Be a better resource for the community as a whole
To be on the cutting edge regarding service and products
2) How we will accomplish:
By having staff with diverse experience and training
By allowing consumer to take the driver seat
By enhancing communication throughout the organization with better
communication of where the organization is going.
By increasing focused efforts and efficiency.
By developing a rigorous approach and raising the bar.
By exploring, researching and using data based decision making.
By using evidence based practice
By assessing community needs
By identifying the market needs and trends
By cultivating a hunger for finding new information
By merging the service and product
By incorporating other organizations and opening the door for sharing best
practices.
3) Beliefs and values of the organization.
Commitment, mutual respect, willing to rise and fall with fellow providers
Now take pieces of 1,2 and 3 together to form a mission statement. Remember we need to focus on the purpose of the agency, how we will accomplish the purpose and what are the beliefs and values.
Here is an example:
Monaco and associates is an agency that believes in commitment and mutual respect. The organization strives to be the best and well known provider of independent service coordination and software programs to enhance the lives of consumer’s with developmental disabilities. The agency will be the best and well known provider by cultivating a hunger for finding new information, developing a rigorous approach and raising the bar, having staff with diverse experience and training and by using evidence based practices.