Strategy?
How many goals do you have?
Are they written in unambiguous language?
Does everyone in your organization know them by heart?
How are you going to measure success?
In its most basic form, this is what strategy is all about. No matter what process you have used to develop your goals, they should be less than five in number, simply stated, internalized by everyone in the organization, and measured using LEADING indicators.
Let me give you an illustration… Most educational institutions will spend three to six months writing a strategic plan. The plan has some worthwhile goals and may actually be fairly specific as to what the targets are. These goals are either set knowing what the measures will be (e.g. raising test scores) or not (e.g. student success). In either case leading indicators are tough to come by or nonexistent. When pressed, district administrators will provide you with the methodologies they are employing to accomplish the districts goals, but are generally at a loss to demonstrate the leading indicators that point to progress toward those goals.
Our formative testing is showing that our students are improving!
OK. Is there a long term correlation between those formatives and the summatives?
Our graduation rates are steadily increasing!
OK. Is there a long term correlation between graduation rates and student success?
My friends, there is a great deal of work to be done. Are you willing?
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