Imagine a ministry plan built on a spiritual discovery process that not only gives you a strategic plan but the tools and accountability to see it through! StratOp for Churches produces a balanced strategy and plan and empowers you to begin installing it into your church within a month. Behaviorally sound, this six-phase process releases your team to lead and manage your church as a system comprised of multiple programs, ministries and functions.

The word “StratOp” blends two words vital to a successful planning process. “Strat” stands for strategic, the art of planning for tomorrow, today.  “Op” stands for operational, the discipline of taking care of today, today. The StratOp Process is a Strategic Operational Planning Process built on the principle: you must plan for tomorrow – today, while insuring you tend to today - today. Weaved through the entire process, but not obvious in the word StratOp is a third component – the financial. Both strategy and operations must be financed. Consequently, the StratOp Planning Process is a comprehensive system that weaves together the strategic, operational and financial.

Using discovery based processing the StratOp process will guide your leadership team to gain full perspective of all internal and external realities, to craft a core plan and strategy that emerges from the gained clarity, to focus on what is important now in order to move towards the clarified vision, and to create a plan that can be measured, incrementally installed and adapted to internal and external change. Six phases flow through the StratOp process, and when worked become an ongoing cycle of renewal.

Unique features of the StratOp Process

1. A Wholistic Approach: We will look at the entire organization as one organism with its various organs working together for overall health.
2. Addressing the Strategic, Operational, and Financial: Strategy is planning for tomorrow – today.  Operational is taking care of today – today.  Both the strategic and operational need to be financed. The entire process weaves these three elements together like three strands to a rope.
3. Believes It Is The Entire Church That Succeeds Or Fails: Therefore, all voices have the freedom to speak into the health of the whole. If one part suffers, all suffer. We must manage the entire enterprise towards health.
4. The Process Is A Management System: The StratOp process is a system by which you learn to adapt to change, reinvent yourselves, make cross functional decisions, and develop your people.
5. Adaptation Is Built In: We build in constant adaptation to change on the micro and macro levels. If you work your plan effectively, the system will guide you towards perspective on change and how to respond to it.
6. A Relentless War On Waste: Because breakthrough is horizontal and because the StratOp process is a cross-functional, horizontal system, waste is exposed as you manage the plan.
7. Work Is Organized By Its Own Logic: Form follows function or structure forms around the substance of the core plan. How you organize yourselves logically flows out of the process.
8. Performance Drivers Toward Breakthrough: All churches have performance drivers that control the outcome of the plan’s success. Once these drivers are identified, the system guides you to manage them towards higher performance.
9. Develops Multi Dimensional Leaders: Built into the StratOp system is a leadership development component.  As the plan is worked, those with leadership competencies and potential are given an opportunity to develop, grow and lead.
10. Identifies Enterprise W.I.N.’s:  You can’t do everything at once. You must live within your capacities of time and people resources. Lou Holtz coined the term W.I.N.’s, standing for “what’s important now.” The StratOp system guides you to manage your W.I.N.’s.

What You Get
You get a ready to install, customized strategic operating plan, both in a Plan On A Page format and with a supporting playbook (hard copies and electronic formats). You get unity and alignment in leadership. You get clarified roles and a plan to move towards your vision, while resourcing the leadership team to tend to the operational realities they face. As a option additional coaching and facilitation is available that will assist the leadership team in installing the StratOp system into the church’s system.

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