Choosing Our Direction
Choosing Our Direction is a strategic planning tool for groups or organizations to become more effective by developing or redeveloping such goals and objectives for their future.
Effective groups and organizations have clear goals and objectives and are focused on working toward accomplishing these. Choosing Our Direction helps groups identify who they are, what they currently do, what they want to do in the future, and develop a usable plan for getting there. The workbooks in the Choosing Our Direction program are designed to be used sequentially are are intended to provide a framework for strategic planning.
Program Materials (in PDF format)
Participant Workbooks
- Setting the Stage: A Primer on Strategic Planning - Initial assessment; is strategic planning for your organization?)
- #1 What Do We Do Now? - Introduction to strategic planning, assessing organizational structure
- #2 What Shapes Our Future? - Forces affecting the organization; stakeholder perceptions; strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats
- #3 What Are We Going to Do? - Goals, objectives, mission and vision exercise
- #4 Making It Happen - Implementation plan; action steps; timeline; evaluation
Extra Worksheets (copies of worksheets from the workbooks)
- Setting the Stage worksheets
- Workbook #1 worksheets
- Workbook #2 worksheets
- Workbook #3 worksheets
- Workbook #4 worksheets
How to Apply
To have a Choosing Our Direction program for your group or organization, contact your local Penn State Extension Office.
This program is available in select Pennsylvania Counties.
