1. What is A growth-oriented association?
LEARN-THINK-DISCUSS-ACT

3. Icebreaker Activity What do these words bring to mind for you?
Hindsight
Oversight
Foresight
Insight

4. Productive Hindsight
It is essential for boards to grapple thoughtfully with deep seated organizational assumptions and beliefs that no longer contribute to association success.
Developing and following a process of thinking and acting beyond orthodoxy that makes it possible to respect the past while also letting go of it in order to accelerate the organization’s pace of progress toward the future.
LEARN

5. Ambient Oversight
Association and non-profit boards must exercise care and wisdom in guiding their organizations through an increasingly complex operating environment. Boards
fully internalizing their critical responsibilities,
developing a holistic perspective on what is needed for their organizations to thrive and
nurturing a shared understanding of how to move that work forward intelligently.
THINK

6. Purposeful Foresight
Non-profit boards must make every effort to understand how societal transformation will create new challenges and opportunities for their organizations, stakeholders and fields.
Boards building consistent practice of foresight that includes and reaches beyond the work of strategy.
Reorienting today’s organizations toward a dynamic and uncertain future.
DISCUSS

7. Actionable Insight
Non profit boards must help their organizations respect the past, adapt to the present and prepare for the future.
About fully integrating these critical efforts to create a consistent cycle of thoughtful, coherent and future focused action always taken with the benefit of all stakeholders in mind.
ACT
New Plan arranged in pillars: each pillar represents an important aspect of Canadian parents for French work

8. 4 Key Elements to Consider
Understanding our Beliefs
Thinking Beyond Current Models
Focusing on Simplicity
Embracing an Open Culture of Support
LEARN, THINK, DISCUSS, ACT
Innovation, Change, Creativity

9. 4 Elements to Consider for CPF
Hindsight – Learn:
Understanding Orthodox Beliefs
Oversight – Think:
Embracing Board Stewardship
Foresight – Discuss:
Thinking Beyond Membership
Insight – Learn:
Supporting Experimentation

10. Questions, Comments

11. Examples to consider Making Choices:
Membership – human resources, financial impacts
Funding – donations, advertising – Hours to invest
Youth Activities – Impact for the volunteer time, budget – Gather testimonials to support continuing; can it be done differently – with partners? More cost effective?
Meeting with Potentials: Sponsors, Members, Partners – meet without an ask to start; what are you looking for? Would we be good fit?

12. Merci Beaucoup! Sources: CSAE Board READY Card Deck
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