Flying by the Seat of Your Pants? You May Need an Operational Calendar

The goal isn’t to have the most beautiful or complex system; it’s to have a functional, useful roadmap that keeps your organization running smoothly.

We all have calendars to manage our lives - some of us, ahem, may even have five. I’m not proud of it, but that’s how my brain works. While I’m not here to dive into my five-calendar system, I am here to share one of my life's more straightforward and important calendars - my non-profit’s annual Operations Calendar.

I’ll preface this entire article with …