Mission vision and stakeholder alignment
Facilitated work with leaders and stakeholders to clarify an organization’s direction and put it into usable language. Connect mission, vision and program priorities to decisions people can act on.
↪︎ A shared direction becomes useful when the team can apply it.
Give the discussion a practical assignment.
A mission or vision refresh often begins with a writing request. The discussion soon reaches decisions about whom the organization serves, what it wants to build and which expectations it can meet.
Kuhns, Inc. helps frame those decisions, listen across the people involved, and develop language that reflects the direction leadership is prepared to carry forward. The work connects the statements to the organization’s programming, communications and development needs.
Discuss the direction you need to clarify
For an institution revisiting its purpose or future direction.
Mission and vision development
Work with leadership and agreed stakeholder groups to examine the current direction, identify where expectations differ, and develop foundational language for the organization’s next stage.
Receive proposed mission and vision language, a record of the decisions behind it, and recommendations for applying that direction to immediate priorities. The scope can include facilitated sessions, feedback and revision.
Most useful when: the institution’s language and its working priorities need to be reconsidered together.
Scope a mission and vision engagement
For a team preparing a particular program, partnership or major initiative.
Program and initiative alignment
Bring the people responsible for a defined initiative into a focused discussion of purpose, audience, expectations and practical constraints. Identify what needs agreement before the work moves into development or public communication.
Receive a proposed direction for the initiative, foundational messages and a documented account of responsibilities and unresolved decisions. The work gives the next planning or production stage a clearer assignment.
Most useful when: people support the initiative but have different understandings of what it should achieve or how it should proceed.
Discuss an initiative
Keep the direction connected to the work.
Examples of work available on request. Each unique engagement identifies who contributes, who decides and what the resulting language needs to help the organization do. Leadership retains responsibility for its direction and final approval.