Gilda’s Club Quad Cities
A Starting Point for Strategic Planning and Developing Team Spirit
Gilda’s Club Quad Cities is a non-profit cancer support community providing people living with cancer, and all who touch their lives, access to other people going through the same experience. It is through people coming together to share the collective wisdom of their experience that a sense of control begins to develop. Gilda’s Club is recognized as a critical service organization for the Quad Cities area.
Claudia Robinson CEO of Gilda’s Club Quad Cities recognized that the need to develop a strategic plan for the future. However, she also recognized that setting the stage for the strategic plan was as important as doing the plan itself. Sorting from among all the issues facing the organization as well as assuring that all of her board members and staff were aligned on what matters most was critical to being able to work together in the planning process. Claudia selected WLi’s Tactical Alignment Program to help her set the stage and assure alignment among those important key stakeholders. Claudia makes it clear when she says, “ … and the end result was a starting point for strategic planning that really allowed us to be focused in the primary areas and assured everyone to be on board.”