Strategic Planning for Your Local Agricultural Education Program

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Strategic Planning for Your Local Agricultural
Education Program
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What might be a simple vision for a person?

• Be happy

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What would you need to be happy?
Vision Themes or List Vision

• Good health
• Loving relationships
• Financial security
• Spiritual enlightenment
• Etc ...

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How is good health achieved?
Vision-Based Goals

• Eat right
• Follow a diet plan
• Exercise
• 40 minutes of aerobic exercise 5 days/week
• Regular medical check-ups
• Annual physical examination
• Avoid dangerous situations
• Etc ...

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What is Strategic Planning

• A disciplined effort to produce decisions and
  actions that guide an organization to meet its
  vision

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What a strategic plan can do

• Clarify future direction
• Develop a basis for decision-making
• Identify priorities for the program
• Designate duties and responsibilities for people
  involved with the program
• Understand the program in relation to other
  groups

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Steps of Strategic Planning

• Finalize the vision statement
• From the vision statement, create a list vision
• Strengthen the vision themes

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Steps of strategic planning

• Set vision-based goals
• Prioritize goals
• Assign persons responsible for leading work on
  each goal
• Establish a way to assess the goals

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Strategic Planning Exercises