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    • 1 | Wildly Important Goals
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3 | Ministry Action Plan

MAP Process

Short form Ministry Action Plans (MAPs) make strategy and goal-setting purposeful and concise. MAPs are vision clarification and strategy planning on a few sheets of paper and the goal is K.I.S.S.: Keep it short and simple. Short form components include:

  • Step 1 – Job Description
  • Step 2 – Position Guidelines (PGs)
  • Step 3 – Ministry Action Plan (MAP)
  • Step 4 – Regular Coaching

Step 3 – Ministry Action Plan

Completed Annually

The third part of short form strategy planning lists ministry gaps and strategy-driven goals for each worker. Ministry Action Plans include:

  • Ministry Vision – Why does your ministry exist and how does it accomplish our mission and vision using our strategy?
  • Ministry Gap Assessment – What’s missing and what’s needed to achieve a growing, vision-aligned, healthy ministry?
  • Leader/Volunteer Recruitment – Growing ministries require more leaders and volunteers. What’s your leadership development plan?
  • SMART Ministry Goals – Goals provide a finish line and help you stay on track. How will you grow from x to y and how long will it take?
    • Measurement – How will you know you’ve succeeded?
    • Target Date – When do you anticipate reaching your goal?
    • Time Allocation (%) – How much time will you spend working on this goal?
    • Results – What happened? Did you achieve your goal? Fall short? Overachieve?
    • Comments/Notes – Provide further information as needed.
  • Goal Completion Dependencies – What resources are needed to achieve your goals?
  • Professional Development – How will you grow in the coming year?

Here’s What It Looks Like

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Page 1 – Vision, Gap Assessment & Leader/Volunteer Recruitment

Page 2 – SMART Goals, Goal Completion Dependencies & Professional Development

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