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USF St. Petersburg Strategic Planning 2008-2013

USF St. Petersburg Strategic Planning 2008-2013. Dr. Eric Eisenberg Facilitator. What is Strategic Planning?. Strategic Planning is the formal consideration of an organization's future course.

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USF St. Petersburg Strategic Planning 2008-2013

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  1. USF St. Petersburg Strategic Planning 2008-2013 Dr. Eric Eisenberg Facilitator

  2. What is Strategic Planning? • Strategic Planning is the formal consideration of an organization's future course. • Strategic Planning is a continuous and systematic process where people make decisions about intended future outcomes, how outcomes are to be accomplished, and how success is measured and evaluated. (Blackerby Associates)

  3. What is Strategic Planning? • Strategic Planning is: • Oriented towards the future, and focuses on the anticipated future. • Looks at how the world could be different 5 years from now. • Aimed at creating the organization's future based on what this future is likely to look like. (Tennessee Board of Regents)

  4. Why do Strategic Planning? • Forces you to look beyond current challenges into future possibilities • Helps to develop a shared story about the future of the institution (i.e. brand identity) • Provides helpful guidance in setting priorities and decision-making

  5. Keep in Mind… • In the U.S., strategic plans are relatively short-term, 5-10 years at most • Plans never work in their entirety, but planning does. • A strategic plan is more like a compass than a map.

  6. Three elements of the planning process • Analyze current reality (Environmental Assessment) • Articulate ideal future state (Aspiration) • Develop goals and strategies to close the gap between current reality and the ideal future state (Organizational Alignment)

  7. Strategic Change Model Current Reality Aspiration Alignment

  8. 3 ways this process can fail… • Too much focus on current challenges—overwhelmed, directionless, “in the weeds” • In denial about current realities, focused on empty and unrealistic “visions” • Good grasp of current reality and ideal state, but no discipline to take action to align the organization

  9. Describing Current Reality • Participants assemble by first group assignment and identify a scribe • Using elements from the prior strategic plan and your personal experience at USFSP, brainstorm answers to the following questions: • Where do we excel? • What are our greatest strengths? • What do we do best that we could build upon in the near future?

  10. Gallery Walk: Strengths • When time has elapsed, please post the answers your group came up with on the wall next to the others • Once they have all been posted, take some time to read through them • Whole group discussion of emerging themes regarding current strengths

  11. Defining the Ideal Future State • Participants assemble by second group assignment and identify a scribe • Using elements from the prior strategic plan and your personal experience at USFSP, brainstorm answers to the following questions: • Imagine that we go to sleep tonight and while we are sleeping a miracle occurs and we awake to the perfect USF St. Petersburg! • What would it look like? What would people be thinking, doing, saying? • What would you be happiest about? • What would we be best known for?

  12. Gallery Walk: The Future • When time has elapsed, please post the answers your group came up with on the wall next to the others • Once they have all been posted, take some time to read through them • Whole group discussion of emerging themes regarding the ideal state

  13. Next Steps • Today’s ideas will be captured and summarized as input into the new plan • The Steering Committee will refine descriptions of current reality and ideal future state with additional input • From you • From other internal stakeholders • From external stakeholders in the community • Revisit Timeline

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