Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Strategic Planning For MY Family

In dental school they teach us a little bit about the business side of dentistry and one of the things our professors have talked about is Strategic Planning. I didn't pay it much attention at the time because our business class is only half a credit and there are no tests. This class is at the bottom of the priority totem pole when compared to our other classes (Oral Pathology, Oral Surgery, Operative Dentistry, ext). But, now I'm starting to pay more attention to Strategic Planning as a guide to how my wife and I run our house. You are probably familiar with Strategic Planning if you have taken business classes, because most businesses follow this style of planning. You can google Strategic Planning to learn more about it. Which is what I did. Come to find out it is a good planning tool for any organization, family, couple, or individual. So, I thought I would apply it to our family.

I got some great ideas from this link

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/02/14/creating-a-positive-family-culture-how-to-plan-and-lead-a-weekly-family-meeting/

This past week I sat down with my wife and discussed creating a Family Mission Statement.  Our assignment is to answer the questions we got from the link. I haven't started yet so, you'll have to wait to see what we come up with until next time.