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STRATEG IC PLANNING P RE-WORK QUESTIONS
STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES & THREATS
1. What do you believe are the 3-5 most important strategic opportunities or threats facing the organization
over the next three years?
2. What top 3-5 tangible results will be indicators of success for the organization over the next three years?
POSITIVE CHANGE
3. If you could see one positive change for the organization over the next three years, what would it be?
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
4. What are the organization’s top three strengths that should be leveraged as we move forward?
5. What are the organization’s top three weaknesses that should be “shored up” as part of the 3-year strategy?
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CHALLENGING STATUS QUO
6. Are there any long-standing practices or policies that you have historically been unwilling or unable to
address that need to be on the table during the planning deliberations?
NON-TRADITIONAL/OFF-THE-WALL IDEAS
7. What non-traditional or off-the-wall/out of the box ideas are worth exploration in our deliberations or plan?
Please offer no more than three ideas.
NEAR-TERM CHALLENGES
8. In the first 12 months of this new plan, what has urgency and must be a priority to be accomplished?
Offer your top three items.
MISSION AND VISION
9. Assuming they exist, please review the organization’s current mission statement (why we exist) and vision
statement (what we hope to achieve). In light of your responses to the previous questions, do you believe the
current mission and vision statements are still “on target”? If not, what would you change them?
QUESTIONS WE WILL HA VE ANSWERED
10. If we are successful is formulating a successful roadmap for the organization, what are the top five
questions we will have answered in the strategic plan?
