Course Description
The most effective managers, agencies and organizations refuse to do without a rich understanding of where they are going and why. This ongoing strategic approach powerfully aligns the organization's mission and goals with its work plan and budget. This two-day interactive session focuses on how managers develop and institutionalize a strategic tool kit which attends to mapping, planning, and action. It confronts how managers use such a strategic framework not to resist change but to embrace it and to identify courses of action that are most likely to bring success. It helps students understand how to deploy each tool in a sophisticated fashion to respond to complicated situations where the appropriate course of action if far from apparent.

 

Learning Objectives

 

• Understand and learn how to carry out all of the steps in mapping complex, multi-dimensional authorizing and implementing environments.

• Determine how to forge strategies that incorporate all of the dimensions of mapping in strategic plans.

• Develop ways to categorize stakeholders and decide the extent to which various levels of partnership with them are advisable.

• Consider limitations of formal strategic planning in modern agency and organizational environments and how to overcome those limitations.

• Develop familiarity with dimensions of strategic planning best practice.

• Determine agency-specific ways in which a strategic sense can be maintained beyond the formal planning processes.

 

• Discover how to keep agencies and organizations in strategic alignment, and what steps to take if misalignment becomes evident.

• Tie implementation objectives tightly to mapping and planning.

• Determine how implementation flaws can be discovered during planning stages, and how strategic planning models can help deal with implementation flaws even after implementation begins.

 

 

Who Should Attend
This course is open to any agency or organizational manager who would like to more effectively utilize a strategic framework to improve results.

 

Instructors
Diana Gale is a senior lecturer emeritus at the Evans School of Public Affairs. She became the first director of Seattle Public Utilities when the department was created in 1997 and was responsible for all aspects of Seattle’s utilities including water, sewer, drainage, solid waste, engineering services and utilities customer services. Previously, Diana served as the superintendent of the Seattle Water Department.

 

David S. Harrison is a senior lecturer at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. He currently teaches policy analysis and new program design in the Evans School's Master's in Public Administration program. Harrison's career has been devoted to creating bridges between the policymaking community, policy researchers, and citizens. He came to the Northwest in 1986 to found and direct the Northwest Policy Center, which for many years provided policy assistance to governmental leaders throughout the region on strategies for economic vitality. Harrison is the director of Strategies to Eliminate Poverty (STEP), a Seattle Foundation grantmaking program aimed at devising new strategies to reduce poverty levels in the Northwest.

 

Course Location, Dates, and Tuition

Date		Thursday-Friday, April 24-25, 2008	Monday-Friday, May 18-19, 2009
Course Times		8:00a.m. to 4:30p.m daily	8:00a.m. to 4:30p.m daily
Course Code		08Mapping	09Mapping
Tuition	Early / Evans	$750	$850
	Regular	$800	$900
Early Registration Deadline		February 24 , 2008	April 9, 2009
Cancellation Deadline		April 3, 2008	May 18, 2009
Location		Talaris Conference Center, Seattle, Washington

 

 

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