Workshop:STRATEGIC PLANNINGgaphs panimbang

What is Strategic Planning?

What’s an online focus group?

Why should your organization use Strategic Planning?

What’s your best guess?

When should you use Strategic Planning?

When you are starting a new organization When your organization is starting a new

initiative or large project, or is going to begin work in a new direction

When your group is moving into a new phase of an on-going effort

When you are trying to invigorate an older initiative that has lost its momentum

Steps to a strategic plan

What’s an online focus group?

Vision & Mission

Ensuring the group shares a common vision of what kind of world it wants to work toward and how it will do so, with the project

SWOT Analysis

A review of your groups/projects Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats

Setting a plan timeline and goals

Select the goals you want to pursue along the chosen timeline

Capacity and Needs Assessment

Determine what gaps exits in your group’s capacity, both human and material resources

Determine objectives and bottom liners

Determine which objectives you need to plan to reach each goal and assign a bottom liner

Evaluation Have an evaluation mechanism to ensure the plan is being implemented and can be changed if need be

Matt H. Evans, matt@exinfm.com

Assessment Model: S W O T

External AssessmentExternal Assessment

Internal Assessment. Internal Assessment.

Planning Process

Vision (the dream) Mission (the what and why) Objectives (how much of what will be

accomplished by when) Strategies (the how) Action Plan (what change will happen;

who will do what by when to make it happen)

Vision (the dream)

Vision statement should be Understood and shared by members of the

community Broad enough to allow a diverse variety of

local perspectives to be encompassed within them

Inspiring and uplifting to everyone involved in your effort

Easy to communicate – for example- they should be short enough to fit on a T-shirt

Mission (the what and why)

Use a guide.

Objectives (how much of what will be accomplished)

Use a guide.

Strategies (the how)

What’s your best guess?

Action Plan (what change will happen; who will do what by when to make it happen

The Plan refers to: Specific (community and system) changes

to be sought; and The specific action steps necessary to

bring about changes in all of the relevant sectors, or parts of the community

Action Plan (cont’n)

Action steps are developed for each component of the intervention or (community and system) changes to be sought. These include: Action step(s) : what will

happen Person(s) responsible : who will do what Date Completed : Timing of each action

step Resources required : resources and support

(both what is needed and available) Barriers or resistance, and plan to overcome them Collaborators : who else should know

about this action

Focus Questions

Internal: What are the strengths and weaknesses within our organization that could affect the objectives we seek to achieve?

External: What are the opportunities and threats outside our organization that could affect the objectives we seek to achieve?

THANK YOU for your participation!