Prioritizing and Planning Session Overview Develop SMART goals

Prioritizing and Planning

Session Overview • Develop SMART goals • Identify potential avenues for reaching priorities

Thinking of Your Destination: Be SMART

Setting Goals focus on the results you hope to reach.

S M A R T Specific • What do you want to achieve? • Where will you focus your efforts? Measurable • How do you plan to measure progress toward the goal? • How will you know you have arrived at the goal? Attainable • Do you have the resources to achieve the goal? • Are there barriers that might prevent achieving this goal? Relevant • Is this important for your community? • Does this matter or bring benefit? Time Framed • When do you want to achieve your goal? • What is the target date for accomplishing the goal? Adapted from: Heathfield, S. M. (2011)

SMART Goal: An Ideal Example Specific Relevant Increase the survival rate of new business start-ups (less than 5 -years-old) from 50% to 60% in the county by Dec. 2020 Attainable Time-Framed Measurable

Try It on… • What might be a goal related to this priority that could be achieved in 3 -5 years? • How could you write it as a SMART goal? • Share with a neighbor.

Planning for Success

Picturing Success: What is the WOW? If we were successful in pursuing this goal… what would success look like?

Reality: What is the NOW? What is the reality of our community now related to this priority?

Building a Bridge: What is the HOW? NOW What actions can bridge the gap between the NOW and the WOW? WOW

Prioritizing the Options Given these potential strategies, What could we do? Place a beside these. Given what we could do, What should we do? Place a beside these.

Strategies: Key Questions Which ones will: • Come closest to producing the desired outcomes ? • Appeal most to your target audience? • Make the best uses of resources & assets? • Help overcome key barriers? • Be likely to spur the growth of the priority identified?

Questions and Discussion