Any organization consisting of two or more people must have an architecture whether it is planned or not.

An organizational architecture is the design of the structure of an entity, the entity being a business, governmental unit, or charitable institution.

A planned organizational architecture begins with the following framework:

• A Vision;
• A Mission;
• Core Values;
• Principles;
• Goals
• Strategies.

The structure of a planned organizational architecture supports the framework with:

• Required services;
• Processes to deliver those services;
• Organizational structure;
• Required skills (Personnel);
• Tools to meet objectives.

The structure of the planned organization architecture provides the following:

• Resolution of requests;
• Resolution of problems;
• A product or products;
• Services.

Organizational architecture must meet the utilitarian requirements as well as the aesthetic considerations of an organization.

The example used is for a non-profit service organization.

• Empower individuals to design an organizational architecture;
• Provide the tools to build an organizational architecture;
• Enable individuals to create the vision, mission, core values, principles, and goals for an organization;
• Create a framework to plan the deliverables;
• Provide the tools to develop the infrastructure for the organizational Architecture;
• Develop templates for defining roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities;
• Define evaluation tools to assess needs and link them to the resources within the framework;
• Establish the strategies to achieve goals.

The following are the definitions for the organizational architecture:

A mission statement for this activity might be:

• Provide leadership training to empower participants to realize their potential through team interaction experiences.

The Vision identifies the direction of the organization and what we want to achieve in the future.

A Vision statement for this purpose may be:

• We will be confident, positive, assertive leaders among our peers to assist, help, and serve others and encourage others to follow in our footsteps by expanding our horizons of personal achievement.

These values are central as to how we proceed with our mission and conduct ourselves, and cannot be compromised.

Core values for this purpose may include:

• Safety and health
• Welfare and well being for those around us
• Integrity
• Personal accountability and commitment to fulfilling responsibility
• Community responsibility

These behaviors are the cornerstone of how we conduct ourselves with peers, other organizations, government, and communities.

Principles for this purpose may include:

• Safety, health, and well-being is our #1 priority.
• People are treated with trust, respect, and honesty.
• Teamwork is the method of how we get things done.
• Leadership and decision making is everyone’s responsibility.
• People participate in problem solving and goal setting.
• Consensus is used to determine decisions.
• Input, feedback, and open communications are valued and encouraged.
• Operate in an environment of enthusiasm, positive attitudes, and supportive behavior.
• We provide people with a realistic hope of the future and help them to learn to achieve their goals by learning leadership.

The strategies represent those critical approaches that will be used to achieve the Mission and Vision.

Strategies provide focus for direction, initiatives, and resources.

For this purposes, the strategies to achieve the above Mission and Vision may be:

• Utilize the tools imparted by the leadership training.
• Learn the goals and needs of those participating in the leadership training.
• Fully participate in workshops and sessions and build solid relationships with peers by being considerate and respectful of other’s perspectives.
• Create achievable goals together with the team.
• Plan and work to achieve goals on time, under planned budget, with the highest quality possible.
• Commit: Volunteer to be accountable for those things which you can achieve by contributing your unique education, experiences, and talents.
• Take responsibility for those things for which you agreed to be accountable.

Goals are objectives which are developed and achieved as a result of exercising the mission and vision by using core values, principles, and strategies.

Goals are continuously set and achieved as discrete events which have a specific time frame in which there is generally a beginning, development, and end.

There are several goals possible with the mission and vision of this document:

• Two workshops will be completed during this training;
• Each participant will give seven speeches of less than three minutes each;
• Each member will participate in a group evaluation of speeches;
• Teams will define problems and use a methodology to resolve them;
• Each member will learn to use the fundamentals of project management;
• Each member will learn to utilize the points of view materials to influence others positively;
• All participants will learn the elements of body language and how to ascertain the basic current attitude of individuals;
• All participants will achieve a higher degree of clear thinking and the exercise of excellent judgment and wisdom;
• Each member will achieve a realization of the possibilities of their own ability to achieve they never thought possible before.