Part II - CE

The Lodge CE Team will read and discuss Two Books regarding their applicability to Lodge Leadership and Management. This reading and discussion is Active and not Passive – brief written homework will be assigned either in web based format or by paper based assignments. This homework will prepare the Lodge CE Leadership Team for upcoming workshops.

Mission/Values& Vision - Workshop

This 6-Hour workshop is concerned with creating Mission, Values and Vision statements. This session involves commitment and participation of ALL of your leadership team. First, we will clarify and agree upon the “business” that your lodge is in – this will be the general mission/purpose of Freemasonry that is customized to your geographic region and specific membership interests. Second, we will discuss the existing “Situation Audit” information gleaned from Phase One. The Situation Audit defines where you are at the present time. We will then work diligently to arrive an agreed upon clear and palpable Vision of where you want your Lodge to be in the long-range future. The Vision is a “future” place on the other side of the GAP between the “present” (Self-Evaluation/Situation Audit information) and where you desire or envision your “future.”

Module 4- Strategic Plan

Planning Preparation –Reading Assignments

The Lodge CE Team will read and discuss Two Books regarding their applicability to Planning. This reading and discussion is Active and not Passive – brief written homework will be assigned either in web based format or by paper based assignments. This homework will prepare the Lodge CE Leadership Team for upcoming workshops.

Strategic Plan - Workshop

This 6-Hour workshop is concerned with creating a long-term (five-year) Strategic Plan and interrelated short-term (fulfilling one-year goals) Tactical objectives that “fulfill” or reach the five-year goals. At this session, we will map general actions in each year of the five year plan that would fulfill the strategic plan. Of course, this is a rough map that is a “guide” only. Each year the five-year plan is readjusted to account for unforeseen circumstances and variations in each year’s Worshipful Master’s individual desire to add or subtract plan elements.

This workshop is also concerned with Organizing and Building Lodge Foundational Infrastructure to fulfill strategic and tactical goals.

At this workshop the Lodge CE Leadership Team will decide whether it wants to proceed to 3^rd Level CE.