Towards a Strategic Plan
Link to Slides Being Used During Lerner Loop Team Workshops - Starting March 1, 2024
Link to February 15, 2024 Advisory Board Presentation Slides
Link to February 2, 2024 Townhall Presentation Slides
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Description
This website is the primary communication platform for facilitating the development process of Lerner’s strategic plan (to be completed by Summer 2024). Please participate in its development and revisions.
Current Status
We commenced Stage 2 of the strategic planning process on March 1, 2024 – “Lerner Loop Team Collaboration” see this section of the website for details. Succinctly, we will do the following this month:
- Digest: Peruse the individual brainstorming inputs in the responses section. Create/refine your own thoughts and bring them to this stage.
- Collaborate: Come together as areas to 1) brainstorm as an area and 2) converge on collective aspirations.
- Propose: Write a 1-4 page white paper on your collective team aspirations
Kick-off workshops are being run this week to provide details on the above and make progress on these milestones. Contact any team leaders (see list below) if you want to be included in that area. The live list of kickoff workshops is hosted here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17TQELJhM3OwmOiUd-otGBVQhL22ywFR2YUqX1hDvEns/edit?usp=sharing
If you are attending a workshop, please bring your laptop. We will present some technology that aids speedy completion of this month’s milestones.
Thank you for your participation, we intend this to be a high impact process where we get to design the future we want to be a part of. I like this Marie Kondo quote as it feels applicable:
“The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.” ― Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Timeline
Plan creation will be done with a sense of urgency, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit. A working timeline is below.
- Winter Session 2024
- Create framework for participation
- February 2024
- Area-based working groups identify their area’s aspirational momentum-building pushpoints.
- Working groups brainstorm and host forums as needed.
- End of February
- Working groups submit results of their loop identification process.
- March 2024
- Inter-disciplinary working groups identify preliminary themes and inter-connectedness around momentum-building pushpoints.
- Working groups brainstorm and host forums as needed.
- End of March
- Working groups submit results of their theme identification process.
- April 2024
- Steering committee formed for strategic direction.
- Theme selection process - Lerner Identifies 3-5 Strong Themes
- Operational streamlining committee begins work
- Steering committee formed for strategic direction.
- May 13, 2024
- All groups submit recommendations to steering committee.
- Summer 2024
- Steering committee completes final draft of strategic plan.