The Strategic Doing™ process focuses on participants identifying existing assets and creating shared goals. Using a constrained time frame, individuals then focus on doable actions (individual and collective/collaborative). A trained Strategic Doing™ facilitator(s) should be part of your team. This will help you implement the process correctly and allow access to the copyright materials. You can find facilitators at: Strategic Planning Consultants: Guidance with Strategic Doing ™ .
The process of Strategic Doing™ uses four apprecia tive questions and ten rules. Four appreciative questions define actionable outcomes and set a timeframe for accomplishing them (Morrison, 2014, 2018). Unlike strategic planning, these questions turn ideas into actions within the span of this single session. Participants walk away with their “to - do” list and the time frame to complete them. The four are:
1. What could we do? 2. What should we do? (Convert opportunity to outcome) 3. What will we do? (How can we take steps together to move to outcomes, using ourselves and our networks) 4. What’s our 30/30? (Come back, revise, adjust, set new time frame)
Source: Maria Pippidis, University of Delaware Cooperative Extension 2018 Forum Delaware 2018 Forum
To further help you guide participants, Strategic Doing™ follows these 10 rules built upon one another and guides each step of the process as participants answer questions about assets and opportunities and then score these to find the “Big Easy”, the opportunity that best combines impact and ease. The group then defines 10 steps to achieving the outcome and metrics for success (Morrison et al., 2019):
1. Create and maintain a safe space for deep, focused conversation. 2. Frame a conversation around an appreciative question. 3. Uncover hidden assets people are willing to share. 4. Link and leverage your assets to identify new strategic opportunities. 5. Rate all your strategic opportunities to find your “Big Easy.”
6. Convert your “Big Easy” into a strategic outcome with measurable characteristics. 7. Define a Pathfinder Project with Guideposts. 8. Draft a short-term Action Plan with everyone taking a small step. 9. Set a 30/30 meeting to review progress and adjust. 10. Nudge, connect and promote relentlessly to build your new habits of collaboration. Delaware 2018 Forum
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