Planning Services

Zielinski Companies offers a broad range of management, planning, and consulting services to assist communities clarify, focus upon, and carry out their mission. Our clients receive the benefits of our specialized experience with hundreds of religious communities.

Clearly identifying the critical issues facing your community and having a clear plan or "road map" to address these issues are necessities to successfully achieving your religious community's ongoing mission.

Planning studies examine the major concerns facing your community now and in the future. They give direction for the future and facilitate decision making. Often these studies focus on how the mission is lived out through community life and ministries.

Our consultants bring an objective and unbiased point of view to your future. We ask the hard questions and empower you to address sensitive issues, and together we develop alternative solutions.

The identification, articulation, and integration of values is fundamental to effectively carry out the mission of a religious congregation. A planning study must include these values if it is to have impact and be life-giving to the congregation.

In our planning process we utilize a collaborative approach which engages your leadership and key personnel. The process also encourages representation of the membership and provides opportunities for the entire membership to be heard.

The ongoing sharing of information between the planning team and the membership is often a key element of success. Opportunities for study, discernment, and questions allow the general membership to have input and lead to realistic and viable recommendations. This leads to the development of a consensus.

Range of Planning Services

Zielinski Companies offers a complete range of planning services to assist your community in moving into the future. These services include the following areas:

• Organizational culture/mission analysis
• Resource assessment and management
• Strategic planning
• Member perceptions (including pastoral planning)
• Mission statement assessment/update/design
• Ministry impact/effectiveness
• Organizational structure-appropriateness and design
• Scenario planning
• Facilities utilization/planning/programming/design/construction/management
• Housing studies (i.e., lease vs. rent vs. buy)
• Real estate and property planning
• Retirement planning
• Institutional planning
• Sponsorship/governance
• Operations reviews (infirmaries, institutions, programs, business offices, etc.)
• Mergers/amalgamations of provinces and congregations

Actionable Results

Our planning process produces clear results and a usable action plan. Our studies have a foundation in your community's values, feature input from your general membership, and are action oriented. Our process allows your congregation to be proactive rather than reactive in shaping your community's future and the future of your ministries.

Learn more about Strategic Planning Issues