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Setting Strategic Priorities
Techniques and Tips for Healthy Communities Projects
These audio and PowerPoint files are from an October 14, 2009, one-hour webinar produced for the Healthy Community Coordinators (formerly Heart Health Coordinators) who will be leading or participating in planning/strategic planning processes. In this one-hour webinar, Nancy Dubois and Jodi Thesenvitz introduced participants to a selection of strategic, group-oriented, priority-setting techniques. Although participants were from a specific group, the content is generic, and applicable to anyone interested in priority-setting techniques.
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» Length of audio: 39 minutes, 20 seconds
Comparing Goals & Objectives
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Identify Your Audience
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Inputs, Outputs & Outcomes
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Relationships Between Planning Types
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Types of Objectives
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Strategic Planning
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Many of us have to submit yearly "operational" plans to our funders with budgets, goals and targets for the next year. Would these be called business plans?
00:32:40
Where does strategic planning stop and program planning begin?
00:36:12
How does a Vision differ from a Mission?
00:37:33
How do I know how to approach the planning process – what type of process is best to use? How do you keep it realistic?
00:45:49
In terms of moving the strategic plan into action, are there models or tools that would help with implementation, especially in a multi-service agency?
00:45:50
Are there ways to speed up the process and this stage quicker?
00:47:16 & 00:52:00
Who should be involved in the planning process?
00:56:00
In the decision-making process, I find that people often miss the conversation on what the criteria will be for how they will make decisions. Will it be based on efficiencies, effectiveness, impact, etc.?
00:56:40
Who should actually write the plan?
01:04:25
What will decrease the likelihood that a strategic plan will sit on a shelf and not be used?
01:02:50
Often I get told that everyone should be able to see their work in our strategic plan and visa versa. However, we have such a huge breadth of responsibility that this is pretty hard to do.
