CHAPTER 3

Organized Staff

Earlier we discussed the importance of including staff when developing your strategy for your organization. It is just as important to include your staff when deciding how best to organize your program, assign tasks, and delegate decisions. They are the “world’s greatest experts” when it comes to their own work and will have invaluable information to share regarding planning and organizational decisions. Planning involves annual updates of strategy, and organizing is the process of aligning your talent with the goals of the strategy for best results.

There are two options for organizing staff to accomplish program goals. The more traditional way identifies which individuals can best perform given tasks. For example, ...

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