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Process for developing Strategic Plan…Part 1

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Phase 1 – Development of Strategic Goals and Division Values

October 2015 to February 2016

  1. Establish an online space for two-way communication between Division faculty and staff and the Strategic Plan Steering Committee about the planning process and drafts of the Strategic Plan.
  2. Modify current Division goals based on OSU SP 3.0, strategic plans from across the Division, and strategic plans from external stakeholders, and identify overarching values across those plans
  3. Share draft with Division Executive Team leadership (Reed, King, and TBA) to check direction and make necessary modifications, publish to online space.
  4. Share draft with unit directors, program leaders, and regional administrators in meeting
  5. Modify based on feedback, publish to online space.
  6. Share with larger audiences of Division faculty and staff via webinars or in-person seminars. Gather feedback from participants during session and very shortly thereafter.
  7. Modify based on feedback, publish to online space.
  8. Share with Division Exec Team leadership (Reed, King, and TBA), and make modifications
  9. Share penultimate draft of goal areas with the process of development clearly defined, via email and Division-wide recorded webinar
  10. Integrate any last-minute minor feedback and send to Division faculty and staff via email, publish to online space.

Phase 1 Process Visual

A bit of background…

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Purpose of the Division of Outreach & Engagement’s Strategic Plan

  • Demonstrate the Division’s alignment with OSU’s Strategic Plan 3.0
  • Demonstrate the Division’s alignment with various stakeholders and anticipate the future for those stakeholders
  • Guide the way units in the Division do their outreach and engagement work and operate more generally (as opposed to guide what they do, topically).
  • Provide bold new development/growth opportunities for the way units in the Division operate and engage with clientele (learners and other external entities)
  • Help units see how their current strategies are contributing to the achievement of the Division’s goals. Help them see how they port into the Division.
  • Help units identify/determine if new ideas or strategies they are contemplating or get presented to them will contribute to the Division’s goals
  • Foster a common culture and set of values across Division
  • Spark innovation
  • Inform the development of the 2017 biennium legislative package

Time-frame of Strategic Plan

  • Scheduled completion: June 2016
  • Proposed strategies should be implementable in 5 years

Desired structure of Strategic Plan

  • Once the plan is complete the goals should remain stable, but the strategies should be flexible so that units can adjust or add to them throughout the 5 year implementation phase
  • Outline should be:
  • Diversity, Equity & inclusion should be embedded in each strategic goal area within the broad strategies

Strategic Plan development process must address:

  • OSU SP 3.0
  • Inclusion of stakeholders’ perspectives: University leadership, Public agency siblings, NGOs that do similar work to us and partner with us, Funders (NIFA, legislators, counties), Learners, Internal faculty & staff
  • Whether or not the 2009 strategic plan goal areas are still the right ones for the Division
  • Creation/development of shared values for Division
  • Creation of strategies for achieving goals