Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Denver, CO
May 12-13, 2009
Overview
This Strategic Doing Pack is designed to guide discussions in your regional meetings. It represents a set
of exercises that can help you keep the discussion focused. These exercises are tied to the Strategic
Doing Cycle. At the end of the day, you should have touched on all of the topics needed to compile a
strategic action plan.
Before you begin, you should pass around a sign in sheet to make sure that you have captured all of the
participants and their e-mails.
You should also designate one or more people to take notes. Capturing the key points of your discussion
is vitally important to moving the conversation forward. As you put these notes on the web, it enables
people to reconstruct the history of the conversation and to join the conversation at any point.
Use workshop exercises as a guide, not a recipe. Modify these exercises as you see fit to fit your
circumstances.
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The Strategic Doing cycle
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With Strategic Doing, you manage collaborations....
Managing collaborations is about managing
conversations
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Strategic Collaborations are defined
by four key questions...
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What could we do together?
What will we
do together?
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To keep your conversations
on track and focused...
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Define one to four areas of
Strategic Focus: These
Decide on a process of become the chapters in your
coming back together in 30 to Strategic Action Plan
90 days to evaluate your
progress and make
adjustments
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What could we do together?
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Define areas of Strategic Focus simply helps you organize your
“strategic focus” in Strategic Action Plan. Your plan should have
general terms between three to five areas of Strategic Focus.
Where will you focus your Each area of Strategic Focus can (and probably
efforts? should) have multiple outcomes. Areas of Strategic
Focus are typically broad. Examples: Developing
Talent with 21st Century Skills; Developing
Entrepreneurship; Supporting High Growth Clusters
Within each area of Strategic Outcomes describe a destination.
focus, define one or Descriptions of your destination should include a
more “Strategic handful of critical characteristics that define your
Outcomes” outcome.
What is your destination? Where What will our region look like, feel like when they
do you want people to go? get there? What will people be doing? How will the
world be different?
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Strategic Outcome
Strategic Focus
Characteristics
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Workshop Exercise 1 (Page 1 of 3):
Explore Focus Areas and Outcomes
Fill out up to four opportunities on this
page and the next
Opportunity 1
Opportunity 2
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Workshop Exercise 1 (Page 2 of 3):
Explore Focus Areas and Outcomes
Opportunity 3
Opportunity 4
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What should we do together?
What has the highest
potential payoff?
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Pick one focus area to complete the Strategic Doing Cycle
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Workshop Exercise 2 (Page 3 of 3)
Define Outcomes in terms of
characteristics
Outcome 1:
Outcome 2:
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Workshop Exercise 3 (Part 1)
Connect Outcomes to Initiatives
Copy your your most promising Describe one strategic initiative (project) for your outcome
Strategic Outcome from the previous Example: Increase the number of teachers with STEM
exercise here: certifications
Comments:
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Initiatives need to be defined in term of SMART Goals
Simple
Measurable
Aggressive, but Achievable
Relevant
Time-sensitive
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Workshop Exercise 3 (Part 2)
Define Initiatives with SMART Goals
(or project milestones)
Name of the Initiative:
Example:
We compile a list of the number of STEM certified teachers
September 2009
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What will we do together?
What are the most critical
action steps in the next
thirty days?
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Workshop Exercise 4 (Page 1 of 1)
Connect Initiatives to an Action Plan for
the next 30-90 days
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How will we learn together?
What steps will we take to
get connected on line?
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Workshop Exercise 5
Connect Your Work
to a Process of Continuous Learning
Set time and place for our next review (face to face)
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With this network form of organization, we
are overseeing 50+ initiatives in four areas of
strategic focus with a full time staff of 2
people...Our approach is to transform the
existing systems through “swarm innovation”
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