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Course 1 · Clarify · Module 01

Strategic Foundations

Make the connected decisions every other module depends on: why you exist, the context you work in, who matters, the future you want, the work you do, how you behave, what kind of organisation you are, where you add unique value and what you will prioritise.

Part of Course 1 · Clarify · US$29, or all five courses for US$109.

You create: Strategic Foundation

10 lessons and reviews · about 3.3 hours including exercises.

Every lesson has a short video, the written explanation with examples, a guided exercise that saves into your organisation pack, and a sheet in the Strategic Foundations workbook.

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Module introduction

Your lesson sequence

  1. 1.1PurposeUnderstand · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Purpose
  2. 1.2Context and landscape analysisUnderstand · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Context analysis
  3. 1.3Stakeholder mappingUnderstand · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Stakeholder map
  4. 1.4VisionDesign · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Vision
  5. 1.5MissionDesign · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Mission
  6. 1.6Values in practiceDesign · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Values
  7. 1.7Organisational form and identityDesign · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Organisational form
  8. 1.8Positioning and comparative advantageDesign · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: Positioning
  9. 1.9Strategic objectives: external and internalDesign · Video · Reading · Exercise · Excel: External objectives, Internal objectives · Tool: Strategic Objectives
  10. 1.10Your Strategic FoundationModule review and output
Excel

Strategic Foundations workbook

Module-01-Strategic-Foundations.xlsx · included with the course. Sheets: Purpose, Context analysis, Stakeholder map, Vision, Mission, Values, Organisational form, Positioning, External objectives, Internal objectives.

Sheets named after a tool use that tool’s columns, so the workbook can be imported into the Impact Tools without retyping. The file is being prepared and will be available to course purchasers.

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Tools for this module

Each tool is the live version of work you draft in this module. They are optional; the course and its Excel workbook are complete on their own.

  • Strategic Objectives — Build separate external and internal strategic objectives, with actions, owners, progress and review decisions. Lessons 1.9