1. LCC NETWORK STRATEGIC PLANNING Orientation Webinar for Strategic Planning Training and Workshop Participants July 21, 2014 Presenter: Michael Gale, LCC Strategic Planning Coordinator

2. Webinar Objectives  Familiarize participants with the strategic planning process  Understand draft goal areas  Feel prepped for workshop  Learn about resources for strategic planning.

4. Strategic Planning Process  Pre-work: LCC Coordinators developed the idea  Strategic Planning Core Team formed  Coordinators, Assistant Regional Director, Science Coordinator, and LCC Council working group members  Michael Gale (detailee) hired in May 2014  Agreed on a draft outline, timeline, and purpose  Reviewed existing LCC planning documents  Developed “strawdog” goal areas – included in the pre-workshop exercise.

5. Strategic Planning Process  Objective: Create a LCC Network strategic plan by building on existing work within the Network.  Purpose: Articulate a vision for the LCC Network’s future in the next 5 years. A collective strategy will help individual LCCs work collaboratively across the nation and continent into a cohesive network.

6. Strategic Planning Process  Strategic Planning Training and Workshop:  July 27 – August 1, 2014  National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) in Shepherdstown, WV  60 LCC Network participants will gather for morning training and afternoon strategic planning  Science Agenda Team concurrently meeting  LCC Council is also compiling feedback on the Strategic Plan in preparation for the workshop

7. Draft Goal Areas  Workshop Beginning: Consensus around high-level goals that support the Network’s vision, mission, and guiding principles.  Conservation Planning and Design  Science  Conservation Integration  Communications  This content was gleaned from existing strategies within the Network

8. Pre-workshop Exercise  Complete prior to the workshop in whichever format suites you  Questions for each goal area:  Is this a goal that you can live with, and support? If not, please prepare to share your perspective on day one of the Strategic Planning Session.  Are there any high-level components missing from the goal for each Strategy Area?

9. Draft Goal Areas  Strategy Area 1 - Conservation Planning and Design  Problem: Individually, conservation plans and designs within LCCs do not ensure that the net result for the LCC Network will be an ecologically connected network of landscapes and seascapes capable of sustaining natural and cultural resources.

10. Draft Goal Areas  Strategy Area 1 - Conservation Planning and Design  Goal: The LCC Network will support and facilitate cohesive and seamless conservation planning efforts with conservation targets and conservation design products and decision support tools at multiple scales that result in an ecologically connected network of landscapes and seascapes capable of sustaining natural and cultural resources in the face of global change, at the levels and in the places that the public desires.

11. Draft Goal Areas  Strategy Area 2 - Science  Problem : The conservation science efforts of the LCC Network need to be strategic and coordinated at multiple scales (individual LCCs, multi-LCC, network-wide) in order to make meaningful and efficient progress towards achieving the LCC Network Vision and Mission.

12. Draft Goal Areas  Strategy Area 2 - Science  Goal: An organizational framework and a common understanding for LCC science development and delivery in pursuit of the LCC Network Vision and Mission that articulates key LCC Network priorities, describes linkages and relationships among LCC science efforts, and provides a roadmap of critical landscape science that should be pursued at multiple scales (individual LCCs, multi-LCC, network-wide).

13. Draft Goal Areas  Strategy Area 3 – Conservation Integration  Problem : No individual agency or organization has the capacity to unilaterally provide the needed science and information or to stand alone in any effort to address the suite of threats and their spatial scope to our natural and cultural resources.

14. Draft Goal Areas  Strategy Area 3 – Conservation Integration  Goal: An effective partnership approach that better integrates partners’ respective planning activities and operations at multiple levels for large-scale conservation of natural and cultural resources and strategically targets and implements actions that satisfy partner missions towards achieving an ecologically connected network of landscapes and seascapes.

15. Draft Goal Areas  Strategy Area 4 - Communications  Problem: There is a lack of understanding of what LCCs are by key stakeholder groups including employees, decision makers, partners such as states, legislators, etc. The LCC Network needs a way to share success stories in plain language that resonates with broad and diverse audiences. The Network also lacks a communications framework and the capacity and tools to facilitate internal and external communications.

16. Draft Goal Areas  Strategy Area 4 - Communications  Goal: The LCC Network with its partners is implementing an effective, robust communications strategy that results in informed internal and external target audiences of key stakeholders, policy makers, and potential partners about the value and successes of the LCC Network and individual LCCs, and increases support and broader engagement for the LCC Network.

17. Workshop Overview  Monday – Overview, Definitions, and Goal Statements per Strategic Area  Tuesday – Identify Objectives  Wednesday – Tactics  Thursday – Implementation  Friday – Closeout  Key Element: FLEXIBILITY

18. Workshop Overview  Optional Workshop Activities:  LCC Network Social: Sunday, July 27 at 7:30pm in Murie Lodge  BBQ Dinner: Monday evening  Optional Kayaking on Wednesday  Bonfire: Thursday after dinner

19. Resources  Griffin Groups online collaborative space:online collaborative space  Existing Strategies within the Network Existing Strategies  Background Information Background  Contacts:  Michael Gale, michael_gale@fws.gov, 703.358.1840michael_gale@fws.gov  Elsa Haubold, elsa_haubold@fws.gov, 703.358.1953elsa_haubold@fws.gov

20. Questions?  The rest of the webinar is open to any questions, comments, or discussions that contribute to workshop participant preparation.

21. Thank you for participating in today’s Orientation Webinar for the LCC Network Strategic Planning Training and Workshop. Adjourn – See you at NCTC next week!