1.5 Key Takeaways

Incorporating the 10 Characteristics of Greeneaf’s Servant-Leadership model (Spears & Lawrence, 2002) is intrinsic to excellence in program planning:

• Researching an organization’s Mission, Vision and Values is essential before beginning the creative process of imagining a program or event to ensure alignment;
• Getting to know the characteristics of the population you are developing your program for (age, cognitive ability, physical abilities, unique characteristics) is absolutely crucial to its success and its ability to serve the clients’ needs first;
• Ensuring you have a space available that will be suitable to host your program is important before you invest time and energy on developing a program idea only to realize you have nowhere to hold it.

If you have worked through the contents of STEP 1 and have satisfied all the questions from this STEP, you are ready to move on to STEP 2: Needs Assessment.