IDEC 2014 Winter Leadership Seminar on developing a strategic plan to build a new, stronger proposition for membership value and ultimately, build affiliate capacity to serve as professional home for literacy educators.
2.
Introduction/Overview to prepare for
strategic planning
Group exercises to identify strengths,
challenges and opportunities for growth
Identify one goal and develop objectives for
achievement
Identify next steps for completion and
implementation of the strategic plan
4. What would cease to happen if your affiliate fell
off the face of the Earth tomorrow?
5. What are the key challenges?
Identify two to three biggest challenges you
face within your affiliate
What challenges do you have in the day-today operation of your affiliate?
8.
Focus programs, services and products to
attract and retain members
Create an interactive technology platform
Develop public value
9.
Analyze trends: member data, program data
and all sources of feedback
Identify opportunities
Create new membership value proposition
(goals)
Align governance, committee work and all
other resources to implement the plan
10. What are the key strengths of the
association/council/affiliate?
What is your most popular membership
service, program or activity?
What are your operating strengths? (i.e., recruiting
members, managing financials, developing literacy
leaders, attracting positive media attention, hosting
profitable professional development activities, etc.)
11. What are the key opportunities?
◦ What opportunities can you identify for
development of new activities, programs and
services?
◦ What are other similar organizations doing that
are successful?
12.
Develop goals that are achievable,
measureable
Drive resources to achieve goals
Employ principles of strong business and
governance operations
Utilize this professional network – IRA and all
its network to achieve the goals
14. • Increase website traffic by 25% by January
2015
• Develop one new online resource by May
2014
15.
Establish IRA as worldwide authority and #1
resource provider in literacy education
Increase membership value
Attain and maintain financial stability
16.
Identify possible goals
Prioritize two to three goals to be achieved in
the next two years
Identify at least one priority goal and design
objectives applying S.M.A.R.T. criteria
Create a roadmap and develop navigational tools, realizing there are different options for reaching the destinationGive up being expert in data collection and move to pattern recognition, so we know what’s worth our attentionAbandon predictions and shift to rapid prototyping and experimentationDelegate authority, get info from the front lines, make decisions based on real-time understanding of what’s happening on the ground. No longer “MAKING A PLAN AND STICKING TO IT” ; now “SET A DIRECTION AND TEST IT”
This is about the work… what do we do that is essentially important and would cease to happen if we didn’t exist. What is it that we do that matters and is unique (no one else doing it). What in literacy would not happen?
It’s not just about getting members; it’s about getting them and keeping them.