Using a 15- to 20-slide PowerPoint presentation (PPT), develop a strategic planning visioning session with a
government or nonprofit organization's board of directors or executive staff. Consider how you will collaboration
collaborative environment among with all levels of the organization to sustain the vision from executive
leadership.
In the role of leader and futurist during this imaginary session, you collaborate with the organizational and
community stakeholders to move the organization in a new direction or to stay the current course, depending
upon the organization's mission, goals, and the imaginary visioning session. This is a time to envision the future
and the potential for creating a viable outlook.
Presentation content: Include a minimum of one slide for each of the following. (Note: You may use more slides
depending on your presentation.) Below is a list of slides to include in the presentation and the questions you
should respond to in your audio portion.
Mission: The current organization's mission
What are the mission, basic philosophy, and core values of the organization?
Stakeholders: Organizational chart with key staff and internal and external stakeholders with titles
Who are the key staff and internal stakeholders you would involve in this process, and why?
Who are the external stakeholders that you would involve, and why?
How will you use strategic and scenario planning to effect strategic change in the organization? Summarize the
advantages and disadvantages of each planning tool.
Process: Summarize the step-by-step process you will utilize wnen working with a board of directors or
executive staff to conduct scenario planning. This can be a chart or model that you create.
What types of questions might you ask to develop your framing questions?
How will you negotiate agreement among key internal, and perhaps external, decision makers about the overall
planning effort?
External Environment: Identify the external future environmental influences on your organization within the next
5, 10, and 20 years.
What are the political, economic, social, cultural, technological, and natural trends or driving forces that may
impact your organization? (This slide should include scholarly and professional literature from multiple sources.)
Strategic Goals: Imagine that you have completed a strategic planning and scenario planning process; identify
the possible strategic qoals of your organization.
What are two strategic goals the organization would like to accomplish in the next 5 years, and why?
What are two strategic goals the organization would like to accomplish 10 years from now, and why?
How do these goals have a positive impact on your community, nation, or region?
Scenarios: Imagine you have completed the scenario planning process. Build one scenario of a possible future
for your organization in 20 years that is plausible and robust and that considers unpredictable events.
Identify at least one alternative scenario to the one created based on your previous analysis of future trends that
would be a “surprise.”
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