- Lead and Share Your Vision: Go on a journey of discovery, with yourself, your vision and intention.
- Build your Leadership Team: Find the best variables and traits needed for a strong leadership team.
- Governance Structures: Explore different ways to govern your emerging organization and design a system that can meet the needs of your community while holding the original spark of the vision.
- Handbook Creation: Co-create your governing documents and working agreements, or social contracts. These documents are the backbone of your organization and hold your vision and guiding principles.
- Financial Strategy: Examine the energy flow of currency, commerce and define the value of exchange within your organization.
- Compiling your Business Plan: Design a business plan where the internal operating systems meet the external world of gathering students and staff for growing your organization.
- Location Survey & Development: Assess whether a location will meet your needs and be sustainable for the future in this step.
- Curriculum Planning: Design a curriculum plan that reflects your chosen philosophy, governance style, and educational remedies and determine the boundaries and limitations of your program.
- Intake Process Design: Intake processes for staff and families is essential for onboarding the right profile of educators and families.
- Outreach, in-reach and marketing: Delegate tasks according to the skills, strengths and experience of your team and community. This step is important when scaling your initiative to the next level of growth.
- Supplies & Infrastructure: Gather supplies and infrastructure can feel like setting the stage for a wonderful performance with a cast, director, script, stage, and set.
- Launch Day & Beyond! Finally, all the hard work has paid off and your program has launched! This step is for tracking the progress, challenges, and successes that will unfold to inform you of needed changes and refinements for the following year. This is the most important step for the continuance of your initiative. Remember, every initiative or impulse carries with it its own unique biography, and if well tended, will yield wonderful results. Good luck and well wishes!
