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STRATEGIC PLANNING
WHAT IS STRATEGIC PLANNING?
- Strategic planning is an organizational management activity
- Used to set priorities, focus energy and resources, & strengthen operations
- It ensures that employees and other stakeholders are working toward common goals
- Establishes agreement around intended outcomes/results
- Assess and adjust the organization’s direction in response to a changing environment
GOALS OF THE STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE:
- Review the OLLI mission statement
- Develop ideas for growth and improvement
- Come up with strategies to achieve said growth and improvement
HOW WILL THE COMMITTEE ACHIEVE ITS GOALS?
- Assess current program data, and seek additional data where needed
- Set priorities, inclusive of short and long term goals
- Create a timeline
- The committee will utilize collected information to develop a five-year plan, along with a financial projection.
- Identify key performance indicators and plan to use them to track the progress against the goals set in place
- communicate the strategic plan to the entire organization
- Create visual aids for communication of information to our stakeholders
- This will keep the entire membership invested in the organization and provide opportunities to contribute to the successes of the overall plan.
- Assign specific tasks directly related to the strategic plan to staff members responsible for the achievement of the success
- Assess staff member performance of tasks
- Monitor the performance of the strategic plan, evaluate and assess the timeline monthly to stay on track.
- At the end of each fiscal year, staff will review the committee’s achievements and success and schedule time to build on that success by conducting strategic planning for the next year.