North Central Region Community Development Core Competencies Course - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

1 / 30
About This Presentation
Title:

North Central Region Community Development Core Competencies Course

Description:

... the community toward the direction(s) of greatest benefits ... It is about sense of 'direction', the desired destination. Is unique to your community ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:29
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 31
Provided by: andyl3
Category:

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: North Central Region Community Development Core Competencies Course


1
Wisconsin Basic Economic Development Course
Creating a Foundation for Economic Development

2
Why do strategic planning?
3
What IS strategic planning?
  • Getting from where you are NOW to WHERE you want
    to be
  • Appraisal of current environment
  • Develops the vision, goals for getting there
  • Implementation of action plan
  • Results in positioning the community toward the
    direction(s) of greatest benefits

4
Fundamental Principles
  • Requires open participation
  • Have clearly defined, shared goals
  • Coordinate with other local plans
  • Know your market
  • Develop implementation strategies
  • Define measures of success

5
Getting Started
  • Form a Steering Committee
  • Define community boundaries
  • Do pre-planning to assess community readiness -
    SWOT, environmental scan
  • Identify community participants
  • Media role and communications

6
Form a steering Committee
  • Choose broad cross-section representation
  • Involve people who have diverse opinions
  • Think of all categories of potential stake-holders

7
Define community boundaries
  • How broadly is community defined?
  • How about outside community townships?
  • Regional businesses?
  • Workers who commute into the area?
  • Look at the economy - may differ from
    governmental boundaries

8
Planning Cycle
9
Assess the community
  • Community Assessment (readiness)
  • SWOT Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities,
    Threats
  • Environmental Scan
  • Private consultant study

10
Community readiness
  • Community Economic Development Preparedness Index
    (UW-Extension
  • Community Economic Development Toolbox
  • http//www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/index.cfm

11
SWOT assessment
  • Identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities,
    threats of community
  • Group exercise or online survey
  • Helps with readiness to begin planning process

12
Online survey example
13
SWOT Summary
14
Strengths
Data from 2007 Online GBEDC SWOT survey
15
Determine outcomes
  • What are the concerns as a steering committee in
    this community?
  • What method(s) will be used to evaluate the
    expected outcomes?
  • What organizations will we need to work through
    (new? existing?)

16
Identify participants
  • Key agencies or organizations in the community
    with resources youll need
  • Decision makers with authority (formal and
    informal)
  • Leaders to provide support
  • Those who will be affected, are normally left out

17
Communications
  • Consider media involvement in the steering
    committee
  • Identify the spokesperson for the group
  • What kind of communications will be sent to the
    group, the public, elected officials? How often?

18
Planning Cycle
19
Steps of PSP
Practical Vision(s)
Implementation
Participatory Strategic Planning
Barriers
Strategic Directions
20
Visions
  • Vision tells us where we are going. It is about
    sense of direction, the desired destination
  • Is unique to your community
  • No cookbook or blueprint
  • Channel values, dreams, hopes into action

21
Sample visions
22
Obstacles or barriers
  • Things that keep you from achieving a vision
  • Such as ineffective organization, fragmented
    leadership, undeveloped business retention plan
  • Look for root cause not symptoms
  • Lack of money is not a root cause

23
Developing Strategies
  • Do strategies correspond to key obstacles or
    barriers? Why this strategy/goal?
  • Is there group consensus? Clear understandable?
  • Is the strategy/goal specific? achievable?
  • Can you measure the results?

24
(No Transcript)
25
(No Transcript)
26
Implementation
  • Develop an implementation matrix and timeline
  • Designate a project leader
  • Allocate responsibilities for teams
  • Monitor evaluate consistently
  • Be ready to respond to need for change

27
Monitoring evaluation
  • Monitoring is an assessment of the planning
    process. The purpose should action plan be
    corrected?
  • Evaluation focuses on the specific
    accomplishments of the plan.
  • Distinguish between measuring outputs and
    outcomes

28
Why monitor evaluate?
  • Improves participation of team members on the
    project
  • Have substance to communicate
  • Demonstrates success
  • Feedback allows action plan to be tweaked

29
Case Study
30
Contact Info
  • Gary Green
  • gpgreen_at_wisc.edu
  • Mary Cole Laub
  • mclgroup_at_hughes.net
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com