STRATEGIC PLANNING

Seven years after conducting a strategic planning session for a School, Littleford & Associates received two unexpected emails from its just retired Head and his long […]

Strategic planning does not have to be a complex, drawn out process that takes a year to conclude. And yet many schools find themselves in interminable […]

A new client recently contacted me to say that a consulting firm had used a “broad brush” approach to strategic planning at his School by engaging […]

Most school leaders, especially board members, want a planning process that is effective and focused and yet listens to a wide range of community input. Strategic […]

Strategic planning has powerful and often unanticipated political outcomes, many positive and some negative. Historically used mainly to lay the ground work for a capital campaign, […]

Amazing to me as I walk through the halls of hundreds of schools a year is the relative absence of any sign of a consistent, clear […]

Schools which attempt major change or a new strategic plan at the same time as a head transition often run into difficulties. The effort is made […]

The Responsibility of the Board of Trustees: Mission and Strategic Thinking The word “trustee” conveys the responsibility of boards of independent schools to hold the mission […]

One of the key principles in healthy governance is: “Management manages and boards govern.” The NAIS Principles of Good Practice for Boards state: “Trustees do not […]

The Importance of Choosing the Approach that Suits School Climate The Responsibility of the Board of Trustees: Strategic Thinking and Planning The word “trustee” conveys the […]