1. Strategic Planning Module Preview This PowerPoint provides a sample of the Strategic Planning Module PowerPoint. The actual Strategic Planning PowerPoint is 66 slides. The sample demonstrates the types of interactive activities and information included in the Strategic Planning Module. Each slide is included in the Participant’s Guide and the Facilitator’s Guide. 1

2. STRATEGIC PLANNING MODULE District Strategic Planning 2

3. Purpose and Objectives Purpose Engage the District leadership team in examining current strategic improvement planning and improving the process of strategic planning to maximize organizational results. Outcomes Apply strategic planning information to current strategic plan. Develop processes to deploy strategic planning information to all areas of the organization in order to increase alignment, integration, and improvement. 3

4. Leadership Triad The Leadership Triad connects Strategic Planning and Customer Focus with Leadership. Each of the criteria have a different focus but need to work together. Leadership Focus How do Senior Leaders lead? How does your organization examine accountability and fulfill societal responsibilities? Strategic Planning How do you develop your strategy? How do you implement your strategy? Customer Focus How do you obtain input from your identified customers? How do you serve customers’ needs to engage them and build relationships? 4

5. Session One Are we developing the right plan? There is an Organizational Profile in place and it is the foundation of the Strategic Plan. There is a clear process for strategic planning with documented key steps for developing a strategic plan. The strategic plan aligns and ensures the organizational mission and vision will be accomplished.. 5

6. Examination of Current Plan 6 In groups of three (trios), examine your current strategic planning documents. Discuss the following: What aspects of the documents do you consider positive to the organization? What part of the of the strategic planning documents do you think most inspire the staff to improve? How does your strategic plan impact all of the important aspects of the organization? How do these strategic planning documents relate to your personal “why” from your earlier discussion?

7. Strategic Planning Information 7 There are two questions to consider in planning strategically: How are you strategically planning? How are you implementing your strategic plan? This session focuses on How your organization is strategically planning? Effective strategic planning is an on-going process with progress measures to indicate when a goal is met and a new need can be addressed. There should be a documented process for strategic planning that is used for the district, schools, and departments. The Leadership System develops a strategic plan based on the Organizational Profile. A misconception about effective strategic planning is process that ends at four to seven year cycle. Effective school strategic planning is seamless year to year with measuring, analyzing results from strategic strategies and adjusting by deleting, changing, and adding new strategies based on needed during the year.

8. Session Two Did we get the plan off the ground? There is an action plan to deploy the strategic plan which includes communication, monitoring and adjustments activities. Data is collected and analyzed related to the strategic challenges and strategic advantages.. The Strategic Plan addresses strategic challenges with improvement goals.. 8

9. Short Cycle Improvement Tool 9 What are we trying to accomplish? How will we know the change is an improvement? What changes can we make that will result in improvement? PLANDO STUDYACT

10. Pair with your 8:00 o’clock appointment and complete the Deployment Checklist. As much as possible, come to agreement, but if that is not possible, circle those statements you are unable to agree on in the Deployment Checklist. Find one other pair to compare your completed checklists and find your differences. Discuss why you see this differently. Determine what are the implications of agreeing and disagreeing on the deployment of your strategic plan. 10 Deployment Checklist

11. Session Three Studying the Competition Data is collected and analyzed related to the strategic challenges and strategic advantages. There are external benchmarks in every area identified to help with raising the projected targets. 11

12. Checking In On the Competition As a team brainstorm your district’s main competition. Select four districts to complete a quick study. Divide into four teams and begin to review the district website to search for strategic documents. Mission, Vision, and Core Values Organizational Profile Strategic Plan Measures and Results Find what might be interesting or beneficial to your organization and share. 12

13. Session Four Making The Adjustment There are clear concrete measures for each of the strategic objectives with short and long term cycles There is an action plan to deploy the strategic plan which includes communication, monitoring and adjustments activities. 13

14. Examining Our Own Re-look at your organizational strategic documents with a new lens with your last group of four. Examine the document for the following: Alignment among mission, vision, and core values and strategic plan Rigor of goals in comparison to the top districts Monitoring of results throughout the year Flexibility of making adjustments during the year Deployment of the strategic plan 14

15. Learning Rounds Based on your examination of the current strategic plan determine the following and be ready to participate in a learning round: What are the strengths of the current strategic plan? What are the areas needing adjustment? Which idea will be most difficult to implement in the current culture? Explain why. How should the organization move forward? 15