12 Essentials to High Growth
Based on our own growth journey at Educate!, we’ve come up with a v1/prototype list of what we think are the 12 essentials to nailing high growth as a social enterprise/non-profit and moving beyond a $1 million budget (as a rough measure of stage and size).
Essential 1: Operating Strategic Plan - Why do it and an Overview of Popular Approaches
This post is about building and managing your organization to a strategy. This is very different from the exercise of building and using a four or five year strategic plan, often and most usually, as something to fundraise against.
Essential 1: Operation Strategic Plan - Step by Step Playbook and Video Overview
In this module, we provide a step by step playbook to build a 2-3 page operating strategic plan that helps keep your team aligned, provides increased clarity about what matters now, and helps show all team members how the work we are doing today connects to the vision of tomorrow.
Essential 5: Navigating Conferences - Webinar
In this webinar, we share a comprehensive 5 step process to demystify conferences and give you a feasible strategy to execute.
Essential 7: Performance Management Process - Step by Step Playbook and Video Overview
In this module, we provide a step by step playbook to building a simple and streamlined performance management process that works for even the earliest stage organizations.
Culture Lessons from LinkedIn
This 3 min video shares lessons learned from LinkedIn about how it maintained culture as it scaled to 15,000 people.