proposed strategic planning deadlines
salam, now that we have a basic infrastructure, and a list of interested people, here is how we can involve them in the process and in the end have a better strategic plan for this organization.
i was inspired by the approach taken by the National 4-h organization. i encourage all of you to take a look at their plan. It's amazing:
www.4hrevolution.org
there are also 2 diagrams that i am using as a model, i want to create something similar for myna:
www.idiagram.com/examples/bagc.html
www.idiagram.com/examples/sc1.html
please review these sites and the following agenda and give me recommendations on how to procede.
strategic plan agenda
(starting with goal and work backwards to get to what needs to accomplished now)
goal: get recommendations from youth, alumni, and experts for programming strategies and priorities to include in the finalized version of the strategic plan crafted during the winter program in december.
Dec. 22 board prepares final report of recommendations and alternate versions based on comments from website
Dec. 15 team leaders post Final recommendations in website strategic plan section - for review and comments from other teams
Dec. 8 team leaders submit minutes from final meeting and prepare a report of final recommendations based on the data - to be posted on wesite
Dec. 1 team meetings for data analysis and recommendations
Nov. 24 team meetings for data analysis and recommendations
Nov. 17 team leaders submit progress report and post data collected
Nov. 10 team meetings for data review and prepare report of data collected
Nov. 3 team meetings for data collection
Oct. 27 team meetings for data collection
Oct. 20 team leaders submit list of tasks assigned to team members and deadlines
Oct. 13 teams first meetings and team leaders post minutes of first meeting with member introductions and goal of the team
Oct. 6 teams assembled, team leaders recieve contact information and initiation packets. Web infrastucture ready to go for each team
Sept. 29 designate team leaders from among alumni finalize specialists and experts to be on the teams finalize youth members - all teams will be local for the experts. a willing myna alum from that city will be designated the team leader, and minimum of 3 youth contacts from that city. One parent of each youth member will be allowed to become members of the team but are not required. initiation packet materials ready to go.
Sept. 22 find willing participants - contact myna alum, specialists/experts, youth who signed up at the convention, and existing myna youth groups to inform them of this project and get commitments to help. create intiation packet materials include each team's final requirements, sample prodecures, all resources available and a deadline schedule.
Sept. 15 finalize the topics for each team and the contents of the initiation packets and final plan of action based on your (the myna board and staff) comments to this e-mail.
I know its ambitious and requires a lot of work from me. but i feel its important and will alleviate the concerns of the youth who feel they are not involved in the strategic planning process and would like to be. please comment and check out the web sites i mentioned above.
-asad
posted by Asad Siddiqui @ 9:57 AM
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1 Comments:
sept. 16 2003
Towards a final vision
At the end of the positioning document draft is the list of programming priorities. Which ones should we create teams for? The team’s goal is to recommend to us what is expected from MYNA, a national organization, when we say will provide, for example “High School MSA resources.” Another goal is for them to give us suggestions on how to implement that which they say is expected of us. So tell me, What are priorities areas for which we need to go into the december conference with answers, if people ask? Where do we want to walk away with volunteers ready to act upon those recommendations from the Strategic Plan? I will make packets for each team that includes more details about that topic for them.
The Strategic Plan and the recommendations that it will contain from these teams is different from the Positioning document, they will share some of the language, but are not the same. in all my research, I find that the positioning document is created to understand the brand. I truly don’t understand what more it needs aside from the vision, mission, and goals along with a description of the type of organization it is and the role youth play in it. And to finalize the type of organization that MYNA is, requires work from ISNA and those in the Board that are trying to get the tax/non-profit status work done. I cannot do more on this until then. But will now shift my focus onto having a great Strategic Plan for MYNA. At the next phone meeting I want to get rolling on discussions about youth involvement in the national structure. This was a part of the Strategic Plan and Positioning Document discussion I wanted to start at the Meeting in Indiana, so we need to have it by e-mail and phone now.
About the vision.
As currently worded, the vision found in our brochure and website make us sound like a comprehensive movement that is working for an extremely specific end product – Rather than an organization that is focused on assisting in the development phase of a person. The key word in the vision is youth, not Muslim adult. We need not have an all-encompassing vision – it will be implied by the way we word our vision for youth. Any revisions to the original should have been about substance or making it more youth related. When I posted the original I did not get any response which suggested any need for an overhaul. I was unable to be involved for a few weeks, just my luck it was the weeks you all made decisions about the final wording for the brochure. I was pretty shocked to see the original vision replaced with something completely new (as if the original words and phrasing was meaningless). We worked quite hard to make sense out of what everyone was saying in Dallas to come up with the original and I used all of my notes to craft the original draft, and to see the most important part – the vision – from which everything else follows be replaced, really upset me. Others probably don’t feel that the changes were a big deal or probably even liked the new version. But to me, Honestly, It felt like my commitment and contribution to this process can simply be ignored and discarded if other things in my life keep me from MYNA for a few weeks. I may be blowing things way out of proportion, but I just have to get this monkey off my back. The strategic planning is the one thing I have been placed in charge of, I take it very seriously. I tried to bring my entire knowledge and experience into every word I used and how I used it. I guess what upsets me is that no explanation was given as to why the original was replaced, I went through my back log of e-mail and found very little. Now my personal feelings aside, I know that the process should keep moving if I am not, and that the new wording may not be perceived by others as it is by me – that its not a big deal, So I want to work with it.
Also, Don’t misunderstand, I understand why and appreciate Adil joining us, I don’t want us to move backwards. Now I will explain how I understand the original and make my suggestions on how to reword the new to make it stronger and more reflective of the new MYNA that I had committing myself to in Dallas.
peace and love.
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