Resource: Strategic Direction Setting – 1-Hour Team Conversation Guide
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Strategic Direction Setting: 1-Hour Team Conversation Guide

Use this agenda to move your team from reacting to aligning around what matters.
You’re making decisions, responding to change, and trying to keep moving, even as conditions keep shifting. Strategic direction setting helps your team stay grounded in purpose, responsive to change, and aligned around what matters most.
This 1-Hour Team Conversation Guide offers a simple way to begin. Use it to:
- Name a shared North Star
- Surface key challenges and opportunities
- Clarify priorities for the months ahead
- Bring an equity lens to your decisions
- Identify a few next steps
This is a starting point. Depending on your team, context, and what emerges, you may need more time. Strategic direction grows through reflection, conversation, and return.
Download the guide to start a team conversation about where you’re headed and how you want to move together.
Used by facilitators, nonprofit leaders, and teams to reflect together, name priorities, and move forward with intention.
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