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Aspirations
Aspirations
• Aligning P36 and PrS • Updating Foundational Trainings • Elevating Advanced opportunities • GK specific assessments are widely sought after • Crosswalks of every kind • Digital options for partners • Strong social media presence • Develop virtual communities where home visitors can share ideas and challenges • Provide more languages more possibilities of resources • An interactive course for children to teach them about stranger danger, in a "nonscary" way, and how to remain safe • Continue innovating products for our customers • Embrace a digital transformation (internal and external) • Continue growing in internal our processes and systems • Evolve to meet our customers' needs and wants • Explore new markets • Finding and investing in a more robust payment system and website may need to be established • Conducting focus groups based on interests and needs in the vast network • I think about how big our vision is and how we can broaden our impact on more families' lives to further fulfil that vision • Expanding into international markets • Broadening our reach in North America to touch families both inside and outside of home visiting • Grow our customer base and diversify to continue the growth and success we have been fortunate to achieve thus far • Direct to families support - materials, coaching, blogs, podcasts • Train the trainer courses for professional development in house • Seek a national partner to help underwrite new development • Expand opportunities to serve more parents & families through a variety of accessible programs and products
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Aspirations
• Explore translating the lessons learned in the curriculum to extend to professionals, leaders & teams. Growing Great Leaders. Growing Great Teams. Growing Great
Organizations. Such rich personal and professional development lessons in our curriculum. • Continuing to create products for home visiting programs, but maybe having a line of products that can be sold to any parents • Offering seminars/curriculum for child/family-service programs that aren't strictly homebased • Direct service to parents in some way • Partnerships that will make us stronger and more diversified • Wider variety in our materials (not just curriculum and training) reaching out to markets in other countries now that virtual training is a reality it should open things up • Keep diversifying product lines to appeal to more audiences • Great Kids team to achieve greater connections with each other. Our organization is growing and due to Covid, we have not been able to make connections with new staff and bond over our common interest and goals. • Keep our roots, spread our wings?! • Increase efficiency • More diversity • Grow our workforce to employ more professionals • Be the #1 national leading organization on training and curriculum for home-based programs • Become a one-stop shop for wraparound trainings available to anyone • Hiring more staff to be able to have the capacity to handle this level of customer questions/concerns/needs • Great Kids of the future is a cutting edge organization leading the way in applying research knowledge, flexibility, and innovation of products and partnerships in order to touch more lives. • Be an organization rooted in our mission and dedicated to our non-profit philosophy • More streamlined in our systems & processes, • More elegant in HOW we operate so that we can focus our considerable talent and energy on the work that changes the lives of children.
Aspirations
• More elegant in HOW we operate so that we can focus our considerable talent and energy on the work that changes the lives of children. • Continuing to be viewed as an organization that partners with people to create safe, happy, and healthy childhoods for children • The more people we have on board, the more diverse products we can produce. • An organization that focuses on supporting home visitors and parents on a broader scale by expanding the types of products and trainings we provide. • Continuing this growth might open more doors for us • More diverse members of the team and trainers; • More connected development and coordination teams/collaboration • More closely connected to parents • Financially well off so we can continue to be flexible and agile. • Adding another 5-10 staff members to build out teams. • Great Kids can make a difference in the world by providing parents with tools to support their child's development and increase family resiliency. • Continuing to offer our products to more and more people in more and more ways. • Explore the possibility of a commercial market for the products • Services for middle and upper-middle-class families to have access to the kinds of parenting success that all families need top to bottom, bottom to top. • Plant some trees for all the paper we use • Supporting families to be the best parents they can be is critical to support our communities to have more compassionate, empathic, caring, warm, considerate, inclusive, respectful, etc... people. • We must support new parents understand the children's needs... we need loving parents. • Producing relevant, accessible, up-to-date products that support families to apply positive parenting practices that can be used by a variety of service providers or directly by families themselves. • We can help affect change by addressing adverse childhood experience early to help build resiliency in children and help change the outcome for families and society in the future.
Aspirations
• Help programs create resilient families • Create resilient staff (inside Great Kids and inside local programs) • Expanding the ways in which we serve all those who love and care for children, in formal and informal ways. • Be open to change and willing to always look for opportunities to elevate our products and create new ones from scratch. • Be a hub for information that relates to home visiting and parenting • There might be opportunities for so many more trainings around relevant things that are happening in this world. For example, how systemic racism impacts home visiting services or how the current mental health crisis impacts the families programs are serving. • Advocating for home visiting services • Increasing access to materials/trainings with an equity-based lens • Connecting directly with parents in a variety of ways trauma-informed principles across the board • Take a more flexible approach to employees' work-life balance. • Ensuring we are connecting the correct people with specific projects/situations and ensuring all are involved • Let our customers help determine our direction. • Implement a customer database/ system to help us be more efficient and effective with customers • Differentiate our products from competitors • Continue improving our focus on research and development • Grow our number of seminars and product sales • Acquire new customers with new and existing products • Streamline our core businesses processes and systems • Conduct focus groups from various fields, using this information, hire more staff to carry out the work, and organize the processes within the organization. • The need for a CRM couldn't come at a better time to handle this volume of customer questions/needs. • Continue to focus on research and validating the GK product lines so that we carry even more weight in the field. • Keep up with trends internally and externally.
Aspirations
• Continue to keep a strength-based culture and trust and empower employees by adapting modern approaches to allow flexibility at work. • Build upon our reputation as experts in the field of home visiting and leverage our reputation and enhanced offerings to continue to remain at the top of our field. • Clear communication internally • Competency building of staff for self and organizational interests • Plan for future Great Kids leadership - mentor staff for leadership • Engaging in an ongoing campaign to attract talent through strategic partnerships and relationships with appropriate associations, colleges/universities, etc.. • Hiring support to help us create more elegant and scalable systems and processes to accommodate growth and scale. • Be open to learning and change and helping staff see how they can be a part of change and growth • Listening to our customers so that we can respond to their needs • Bring in consultants to examine trainings/curriculum to identify any gaps in representation/inclusion • Identify areas of opportunity (i.e. states with little-to-no GKI engagement) and assess "why not" • Thinking about what we can do instead of what we can't do open up our minds to new possibilities partner with others to have a bigger impact • Research about what works • Continue to be conservative enough to keep cash reserves but also keep moving ahead as we build up our company. • Continue to broaden our customer base, not only in the US and Canada, but exploring and moving into providing training services in other countries (Mexico,
Central America, South America --focusing on the most stable countries. • Reach out to funders in both the US (Congress/Senate and corporate) to encourage support for underwriting training for programs who cannot afford GKI training and materials. • Expanding into new States; working with the public sector; creating a laboratory for research-based products and services for the early childhood field.
Aspirations
• Expanded market penetration and mechanisms to reach more families. • I would like to see Great Kids expand its products to related ones, or same products to different groups I would like to see Great Kids give back with some of the extra cash. Perhaps a portion of the investment income each year to a needy related nonprofit cause • My hope is that GKI will always maintain regular (frequency dependent on need and relationship) contact with customers wherever they may be. • We may need to consider having staff with foreign language capabilities. • Growth and changes should come incrementally, organically, and strategically. • Have less and less hard copy materials, and more and more electronic resources. • Diversify more--either products or customers or both. • Be well recognized by not only early childhood and home visiting programs but also by senior levels of the US Health and Human Services Dept, • Develop a seminar for program management staff in obtaining additional funds for training and/or program services • Have at least one person in programs outside the US (Japan, Guam, Canada,
China?, England? Europe? Africa?) with whom the GKI ED or designated staff person interfaces to create broader market for our training and materials and most importantly for improving the lives of children throughout the world. • Continue to focus on the core mission to help children and their familes and to give back as it can to support where there is a need. • Determining which of all the recommendations and suggestions you receive from this survey of GKI Board Directors, deciding on perhaps a small number to realistically address over the next year, hopefully with updates to the Board for any initiatives undertaken. • our staff and our Board need more diversity • Look at where the organization should be in 5 or 10 years and really tried to move towards that.
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