TRANSLATING MOTIVATING VISION INTO MEASURABLE GOAL

TRANSLATING MOTIVATING VISION INTO MEASURABLE GOAL

Tips:
Organizing and Leadership.
Public Narrative: The Mission of the Ministry.
Building Relationships in organizing.
Mapping Actors: Identifying and Recruiting Leaders.
Creating Effective Leadership Teams.
Developing Motivating Vision.
Developing a Campaign Timeline and Tactics.
Call to Action: Story of Self (Mission), Us and Now.
Translating Vision to Goals.
(Give room for panel discussion, Question and Response.)

LEARNING GOALS - Purpose, Power and Path.
Motivating Vision - Purpose
Theory of Change (transformation) - Power
Measurable Goal - Path.

WHAT IS ORGANIZING?
Organizing is identifying, recruiting and developing leaders, building community around that leadership, and building power out of that community.
Organizing Theory of Change (transformation): Change = People + Power.
Relationship as Interest
Relationship as Resources
Commitment based on shared interests and shared resources.

ORGANIZING AS A THEORY OF CHANGE
Grounded in collective Action.
What is the vision that will motivate people to take action?
How do we move vision to goal?
STRATEGY is turning the RESOURCES you have into the POWER you need to get CHANGE you want.
STRATEGY is interactive; not a five year plan. What does it take?
Decision to change an intolerable condition that exists within your people.
Developing a vision of a different kind of future.
Shared commitment to a goal.
Deep knowledge of your people and their resources.
Creativity in how to use them.

THE DECISION: Stepping into leadership - Leadership is accepting responsibility for enabling others to achieve purpose in the face of uncertainty. It is a decision, not a position. Authority is not bestowed.
What causes someone to lead in this fashion? – Decision.
Articulating the intolerable condition – What is the urgent challenge?
What is the intolerable condition that you want to end or to avoid?
Why is the action urgent now?
What is at stake?
What will happen if you don’t act now?
Who are the people who affected by this challenge?

DEVELOPING A MOTIVATING VISION
What is the motivating vision?
What could happen if you and your people take action?
What is the choice you are asking your people to make together.

MOVING FROM VISION TO GOAL
What kind of change needs to happen?
Spiritual?
Physical or structural?
Technological?
Behavioural?
Shift in the balance of power?
Does this change require collective action?
What are the resources needed to effect this change?

WHAT ARE THE KINDS OF RESOURCES AVAILABLE & NEEDED.

MEASURABLE OUTCOMES
What is a plausible path the offer hope?
What would achieving success look like?
What are our measurable outcomes? Change in the world; Building capacity; Individual development and growth…

FOLLOW-UP THROUGH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Do you know that implementing this intervention will positively impact your beneficiaries?
How or Why?
What is your near-team goal for implementing the intervention(s)?
Do you currently have data to show your intervention is reducing the increase of worldliness and sinfulness in the world?