Pathways to Success: Developing a Strategic Plan Resources

Pathways to Success: Developing a Strategic Plan Webinar
Tools to Use

• Sample Goal Setting Exercise will help define major goals.
• Partnership Definitions and the Partnership Matrix are useful for identifying partnerships within your community.
• Action Words for Strategic Objectives will help guide the depiction of actions and outcomes in your plan.
• Strategic Objectives Worksheet is THE important tool for connecting your strategies and actions to your larger goals. When you complete all the boxes for each strategy, it is much more likely that your plan will be acted upon.

Sample Plans

• Huhugam Heritage Center Strategic Plan
• The Reach Museum one-page plan summary.
• Archaeology Southwest one-page plan summary

Additional Reading

• Thinking About Mission, Vision, and Values will put the big picture in perspective and offer some thoughts about how you might express your goals.
• Thinking About Strategic Objectives will help you to articulate a layered approach to connecting your annual action plans to your larger goals.
• Aligning Ends, Means, Measures and Actions is a very important piece that puts a time value to Ends, Means, Measures, and Actions.
• On the Natural Selection of Museums is a short essay that explains why some museums fail.The trends are changing, and who knows what comes next, but the reasons some museums fail are the reasons that some of them do well by doing the opposite.