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Virtual Lab Activity
Strategic Planning and Policy Making LEAD610

Worksheet for Reviewing Your Strategic Plan
Introduction:
As part of the Strategic Planning and Policy Making LEAD610 course this semester, we need to focus on the skills
that I would like you to attain. As part of this course we have been asked to create a ‘Virtual Lab’ and use one tool
enable the Virtual Lab. I have chosen the option of ‘Checklist’, which is like things to do list. Once you have finished
the activity, you can mark the item as complete. Learners should tick off each item on the list, as they complete it.
The items that are tracked by the system are marked completed by the system.
Skills-based Virtual Lab Task:
The virtual lab will be utilized to cover the one of the core sets of skills in the Strategic Planning and Policy
Making course:
• S2 Learners will select and deploy appropriate a range of strategies in developing and implement strategies
for higher education.
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Virtual Lab Checklist Activity
Directions for Table One—Strategic Plan Outline
Your strategic plan includes a number of goals, strategies to achieve those goals, and a strategic plan implementation
timeline. This worksheet should be used to review your strategic plan implementation timeline, identify your project’s
progress in implementing strategies each year, and reflect on implications for your next annual work plan. You can
use the worksheet for work plan development or as a guide for reviewing planning documents with project staff and
stakeholders.
1. List the five-year goals and project strategies that your project planned to address each year during the
cooperative agreement, based on what you wrote in your strategic plan. (See Example Goals and Strategies on
page three.)
2. In the table below, write in the number of the strategy your planned to implement each year (YR) of the cooperative
agreement to address your five-year goals. You indicated these years in your strategic plan implementation
timeline. If your project has more than five goals, copy the table and insert the additional columns, as needed.
3. Each year, as you prepare to develop your annual work plan, review the table and determine whether you fully
implemented the project strategies as planned (i.e., achieved a work plan objective related to that strategy).
4. Insert an X by each strategy that your project did not fully implement as planned that year.
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Table One
Strategic Plan Outline
Year Five-Year Project Goals
Goal 1 Goal 2 Goal 3 Goal 4 Goal 5
Strategy N umber Strategy Number Strategy Number Strategy N umber Strategy Number
Example 1 2X 1 3 4X
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Directions for Table Two—Implications for Annual Work Plan
1. In the first (left-hand) column head of the table below, list the year that you are reviewing.
2. In the second column, for each strategy your project did not fully implement (as indicated with an X in the table
above), list the goal and strategy number.
3. In the third column, list the reasons that your project did not implement the strategy.
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Table Two
Implications for Annual Work plan
Year ___ Goal,
Strategy
Reasons Not Fully Implemented
Example Goal 1,
Strategy 2
We had planned to develop an evaluation system this year, but because of a hiring
freeze, we were unable to hire an evaluation consultant to lead this work. We now
have permission to hire an evaluator, so we will implement Strategy 2 next year. Our
next workplan will include a SMART objective and activities for developing the
evaluation system.
Example Goal 2,
Strategy 4
We did not disseminate model CSH and PANT policies as planned because our
partners did not agree on the content of the policies. We will continue our work on
policy development next year (Strategy 3). Our next workplan will include SMART
objectives related to both model policy development and policy dissemination.
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Example Goals and Strategies
Goal 1: Provide coordinated support, through the Coordinated School Health (CSH) Interagency Committee to
schools, communities, and local health departments in implementing a CSH plan.
Goal 1, Strategy 1: Build partnerships with schools, communities, and youth.
Goal 1, Strategy 2: Develop a system to evaluate activities of the CSH Interagency Committee.
Goal 2:
Increase implementation of effective physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco-use prevention (PANT)
efforts in schools and school districts within a CSH framework.
Goal 2, Strategy 1: Build partnerships with schools, communities, and youth.
Goal 2, Strategy 3: Disseminate model CSH and PANT policies to schools and school districts.
Goal 2, Strategy 4: Provide resources and technical assistance (TA) on implementation of PANT to
schools and school districts.