Visioning the Future of Your Local Agricultural Education Program

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Visioning the Future of Your Local Agricultural
Education Program
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What was the greatest technological advancement
of the 20th Century?
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We will put a man on the moon and bring him back
in this decade John F. KennedyMay, 1961
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What is a vision statement?

• A compelling image of the preferred future that
  sets out a groups highest aspirations

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Characteristics of powerful visions

• Legitimate
• must be accepted by individuals in the group
• must be a true expression of values
• Shared
• aligns group members efforts
• poses a challenge for the group

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Characteristics of powerful visions

• Expresses highest aspirations
• describes how group will make a difference
• Stretch limits of current realities
• pushes against possibilities
• articulates a daring adventure
• Achievable
• is an ultimate possibility
• describes something thatcan happen

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Barriers to creating visions

• Lack of concern about the future of the program
• Assumption that the past predicts the future for
  a program
• Failure to think out of the box

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Visioning Exercise
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Components of our ideal Agricultural Education
Program

• What should be taught?
• What facilities will be needed?
• What qualifications/attributes are desired for
  the teacher(s)?
• Who should be served by the program?
• How instruction should be delivered?

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Sample Vision Statements
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National FFA Organization

• FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of
  students by developing their potential for
  premier leadership, personal growth and career
  success through agricultural education.

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McDonald's

• To be the world's best quick service restaurant
  experience.

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Habitat for Humanity

• To eliminate poverty housing around the world.

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Ford Motor Company

• Ford's vision is to be the leading automotive
  company in the world. That doesn't mean the
  biggest it means the best. For us, leadership
  means product excellence, while at the same time
  being the best in customer satisfaction, value,
  cost, quality and profitability.

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Disney

• Disney's overriding objective is to create
  shareholder value by continuing to be the world's
  premier entertainment company from a creative,
  strategic, and financial standpoint

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Microsoft

• Microsoft's early vision was that of a computer
  on every desk and in every home.