An overview of a Strategic Doing workshop, as well as other Strategic Doing solutions. For more information contact Peggy Hosea at Purdue: phosea@purdue.edu

1. PURDUE CENTER FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIC DOING © 2012
Do More Together
Strategic Doing allows your community, organization or network to create an action plan, with measurable
outcomes and accountability, in a 3-6 hour period.
The process
focuses on four
key questions:
WorkshopOverview
What is Strategic Doing?
Strategic Doing is a process that enables civic
leaders to form collaborations quickly, guide
them toward measurable outcomes, and make
adjustments along the way.
What to Expect
During a Strategic Doing Workshop participants are
led through a structured set of conversations and
things:
1. Opportunities
2. At least one outcome with characteristics and metrics
3. At least one initiative or project
4. A complete action plan
5. A plan to meet again
What could we do together?
→ Look first at assets within the group at the table.
→ Next look to see how combining the known assets might offer new opportunities.
→ Evaluate who is not at the table but might have an interest or resources helpful to the solution.
What should we do together?
→ Define an outcome with SMART(Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-bound) goals and metrics.
→ Evaluate the options for action and help the group narrow the scope of activity by suggesting the group focus on
no more than three goals initially.
→ Analyze the suggested activity to see if it is appropriate for the assembled group (e.g. – is some other entity already
working on the project or is the proposed project something that needs higher authority approval).
What will we do together?
→ Draft an activity/action plan including the first
action step, the responsible entity and a “due date.”
→ Make a public commitment to “do” the action step
What’s our 30/30?
→ Decide how the group will communicate
(face-to-face, internet, email, weblogs, etc.).
→ Set a date, in the next 30 days, for follow-up,
reporting and adjustments.
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2. Strategic Training Options
Training
Key Note
Presentations
Simulation -
“SD: The Game”
Practitioner Training
Core Team
Development
Certification
Description Explains the
transformations taking
place in our economy and
how Strategic Doing can
help communities and
regions meet new
challenges.
Participants learn that
strategic action plans can be
quickly developed in loosely
formed networks by
following the Strategic Doing
framework.
This training enables the
participants to introduce
and apply Strategic Doing
in their own communities
and organizations.
An effective core team is
the most vital component
to an initiative’s success.
This training helps core
teams ramp up quickly to
become high performing
teams.
This intensive training
enables participants to
lead Strategic Doing
workshops in their
communities and train
others in the process.
Time Requirement 30 to 90 minutes Approximately 3 hours Full day
(A 5-week online course is
being launched Summer/2014)
Multiple sessions,
6 – 10 hours total
30 hours of classroom
coursework plus field
work activities.
Participants
will learn
Attendees learn about the
Strategic Doing process
and develop an
understanding of the
differences between our
Grandparent’s economy
and our Grandchildren’s
economy. They discover
that new ways of thinking,
behaving and doing are
necessary to transform
neighborhoods,
communities and regions.
Engaging in a realistic
meeting, participants work
collaboratively to answer the
4 questions of Strategic
Doing:
What could we do
(together)?
What should we do?
What will we do?
What’s our 30/30?
This process demonstrates
that communities can
quickly develop meaningful
action plans.
Participants build on the
simulation experience of
The Game and basic
introduction to gain a
deeper knowledge about
forming and leading
complex collaborations.
Participants learn basic
techniques of how to
frame and guide
conversations that
translate ideas into action.
In Strategic Doing,
leadership is shared.
Participants learn the value
and importance of core
teams in leading
transformation and how to
become an effective core
team member and leader.
Participants learn to guide
multiple initiatives toward
outcomes with clear
success metrics and make
adjustments along the way.
Participants learn the
following core skills:
to explain this new
approach to strategy;
to understand how
Strategic Doing forms
new collaborations
quickly;
to organize and guide a
strategy process with no
“command and control”;
to design and lead a
strategy workshop and
convert the workshop
exercises into a strategic
action plan.
Custom Workshops This hands-on activity leads participants representing organizations, communities or multi-county regions through the tools and steps needed to
develop a strategic action plan. They follow the Strategic Doing process in partial or full day sessions to accelerate action. Using this simple
process allows collaborations to form quickly. Participants discover how to move initiatives toward measurable results the value of continuous,
fast “think, do” cycles to make adjustments to their strategic action plan as circumstances change.
Cost Purdue’s Center for Regional Development (PCRD) works with organizations, communities, regions and networks of individuals to design a
customized blend of Strategic Doing training for each situation. Please contact Peggy Hosea at phosea@purdue.edu or 888.750.7277 for more
information about training options.