Mission A mission statement provides the organization with a sense of purpose. Without explicit purpose any organization is doomed to performing its functions without any specific direction or goal in mind.

Mission - Benefits Perhaps the most important benefit is that by developing a mission statement managers have the opportunity to focus on issues of critical importance to the organization. A second benefit of the mission statement is the clarification of the organizational purpose.

How to Identify a Mission Statement? The development of an organizational mission statement will be conducted during working group sessions aimed at answering the six questions listed on the following slide.

Mission Who are we? What are the basic needs we exist to fill or what are the basic problems we exist to address? What should we do to recognize and respond to these needs or problems? How should we respond to our customers & key stakeholders? What is our philosophy and what are our core values? What make us distinctive or unique?