Strategic planning

Contexto

A stand-alone strategic plan for a national node is an excellent document to guide your work programme. Not all nodes will have stand alone strategic plans. Sometimes the strategic plan for a node may be part of your larger workplace, such as the museum’s or Ministry’s strategic plan, or sometimes they are more casual documents that guide a work programme, such as a personal work programme. This module will provide an introduction to developing strategic plans at the node level and aligning these with the GBIF strategic plan.

These materials were developed as part of the 2019 Global Nodes training in Leiden, Netherlands.

Metas del aprendizaje

Tras completar este módulo, usted debería ser capaz de realizar las siguientes tareas:

  • Understand the purpose of strategic planning.

  • Understand GBIF’s strategic planning process and how nodes contribute to it.

  • Understand the role of nodes in implementing GBIF’s strategy.

  • Understand the benefits of the processes that nodes can use to develop strategic plans.

  • Describe examples of the processes that nodes can use to develop strategic plans

  • Develop ideas for your node’s future strategic period

Instructores

Los siguientes formadores han desarrollado el contenido de este tema:

  • Anders Telenius, Sweden

  • Fatima Parker-Allie, South Africa

  • Liam Lysaght, Ireland

GBIF staff consultant: Joe Miller, Executive Secretary

GBIF strategic planning

An introduction to GBIF’s current strategic plan and community involvement in the development of our next plan.

 

 

Strategic planning at the node level

Nodes managers present on how nodes have developed their strategic plans and how these relate to the GBIF strategic plan.

Experiences from Ireland

 

 

Experiences from Sweden

 

 

Experiences from South Africa

 

 

Exercises

Nodes contributions to the GBIF strategic plan exercise

For this activity, Nodes will be asked to come up with ideas in response to the question:

What will be the main contribution of nodes to GBIF’s next strategic period?

They should first come up with an idea on their own, then in a pair, then in a group of four.

Each group of four will be asked to come up with their best idea to present to the whole room in a facilitated summary of the ideas.

 

 

Develop new ideas for your node’s strategic plan exercise

For this activity, you will work in pairs to develop new ideas for your node’s next strategic plan.

Practice presenting these ideas to your group for feedback.