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Fill in this chart by answering the following questions: Benchmark/Short-Term Goal: Concretely, in four weeks what is a benchmark/short term goal you can meet on this skill that will help you move toward a longer term vision? How specifically will you improve this skill in the next fourweeks? (Example: run successful group conference calls)

Weekly practice: Concretely, in four weeks what is a benchmark/short term goal you can meet on this skill that will help you move toward a longer termvision? How specifically will you improve this skill in the next four weeks? (Example: run successful group conference calls) Support: Who can you work with on this skill? And what specific support(i.e. role playing, training, etc.) will you need? (Example: Joe, the Regional Coordinator who I work with and Susan, the core member who will work with me on the agenda for the council check-in call)

Skill: Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4

Benchmark/short term goal

Weekly Practice

Support

Record Your Weekly Progress

Creating a timeline, benchmarks, and plan to meet our goals:In the spreadsheet below, make a week-by-week plan of how you will do the council building and action planning that will get you to the monthly goals you set above. Be sure to think through the following as you make your plan: Building our campaign: Work backwards from the next action you are planning. What are the weekly goals and concrete steps that will prepare your council for that action? (organizing meeting, delegation, check-in calls, recruitment, media, outreach work, etc.) Building our leaders: The core: Plan out how delegation of the responsibilities for the action you are organizing will help recruit and develop core members and plug-in new council members. What action coordination roles or counci

l-building responsibilities will you be asking new and existing leaders to takeon? Building our base: What are the steps that need to happen each week to m

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eet your base-building goals? What are the responsibilities that can be delegated to new people so they can get "plugged-in" and help the council meet it's goals?

Weekly Goal Who is responsible Plan ResourcesDeadline Notes / Follow-up for next week

Week 1: 3/21- 3/27

Campaign work:Building leaders:Building your base:Week 2: 3/28 4/3

Campaign work

Building leaders:Building your base:Week 3: 4/4 4/10

Campaign work:Building leaders:Building your base:Week 4: 4/11 4/17

Campaign work:Building leaders:Building your base: