Departmental Goals

Key Takeaways

[Music] we have talked about our strategy and objectives now let's take these Church strategic goals and apply them at the departmental level writing goals should include a discussion with the appropriate people and answer the questions who will do it what needs to be done when timeline for completion how steps to get it done answering these questions flushes out the specific details of the goal Church goals should support the Strategic plan and identify who is responsible for completing the goal establish a timeline for completion and articulate the necessary action steps this requires assigning the goal to a specific Department for example the volunteer department can take responsibility for the church goal of increasing volunteer participation by 10% let's look at this goal and create a goal document goal increase volunteer participation by 10% 100 to 110 by December 31st here are some example steps to achieve this goal one research what percentage of core members are actively volunteering two develop volunteer recruitment campaign three organize volunteer Fair four process new volunteers five assign new volunteers six schedule new volunteers seven compare total volun uner participation to Baseline now we need to assign responsibility for each action item responsibility for Action items is determined by an employees's job responsibilities for example Stacy Jones is the administrative assistant in the volunteer office which makes her the right person to do steps three four 5 and six establish due dates for each step use the status column to monitor progress toward goals as you can see writing goals is simply thinking through the necessary steps assigning someone responsibility for taking those steps and holding them accountable for the assigned due dates writing goals should involve a conversation that answers these questions who what when how [Music]