Setting your Program up for Success: Strategic Planning Toolkit
Published January 1, 2010
Mandy Guest, MA, CAVS, Director, Volunteer Services and Gift Shop, Houston Methodist Hospital
In this webinar you will learn how to create annual strategic planning sessions, and to create a departmental dashboard of goals and metrics for the year, determine valuable volunteer projects for your department, utilizing project forms to develop your strategic blueprint for the year and provide operational tools to increase productivity for employees.
*This resource was originally developed by the Association for Health Care Volunteer Resource Professionals (AHVRP) prior to AHVRP integrating with The Beryl Institute in July 2020. This webinar does not offer Patient Experience Continuing Education Credit (PXE).
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