Strategic Performance Management STUDENT FOCUSED AGENCY FOCUSED Functions

Strategic Performance Management STUDENT FOCUSED AGENCY FOCUSED

Functions & Structures Organization Leadership Team (CEO & Division Leaders) Division 1 Programs, Supports & Services Unit 3 Division 2 Unit 4 Unit 5 Unit 6 Coordination Division 3 Unit 7 Unit 8 Coordination Unit 9 Collaborative Teams Leading, Developing, & Innovating Unit 2 Coordination Collaborative teams Managing & Performing Unit 1

Strategic Performance Management (SPM) weds strategic planning with performance management in a living system that provides direction for people’s work while allowing for innovation and course adjustment to produce better results more efficiently. SPM includes elements of strategic planning and connects them to performance measures, productivity considerations, and ongoing processes for gauging progress, improving practice, and ex ceeding expectations(Redding & Layland, 2015). • Vision A statement portraying an organization in its ideal form, illustrating an organization at its best and the greater good it serves. • Mission A statement of an organization’s purpose. It describes what the organization does and for whom to realize its vision. • Values Beliefs which provide a foundation of an organization’s ethics or expressions of the ethos. • Goals An ambitious, usually aspirational, outcome of the organization’s pursuit of its vision and mission. Goals represent the ultimate, desired state of the organization in relation to its clients and may not be restricted by time. For an SEA, goals are student focused. • Strategies Describe what an organization will do to move closer to achieving a goal. Strategies tell how an organization gets from “here” (the current state) to “there” (the ideal state represented by the vision). Strategies are written as a theory of action: If we do this …then …… and …… • Performance Measures Means by which a goal or strategy is measured and includes indicators, data sources, baselines, and targets. Goal performance measures focus on measuring the student focused goals, whereas the strategy performance measures focus on measuring the direct impact of the agency’s work.

• Milestones An incremental step in implementing a strategy, usually a year in duration. A milestone may also be referred to as an objective and is typically non quantitative and descriptive. • Actions An incremental step in completing a milestone. Actions take more than one month but less than a year to complete. • Function A statement portraying an organization in its ideal form, illustrating an organization at its best and the greater good it serves. • Structure The way the divisions and units are organized within the agency or organization. • Division A group of structural units that are similar in function. • Unit Structures within the organization that carry out a specific function to complete milestones to effectively implement identified strategies. • Collaborative Team An inter unit team comprised of units needed to complete a milestone. This team develops and implements the action plan detailing the actions, timelines, inputs, and outputs to complete the milestone.