This week we are talking about Strategic Planning.
Did everyone panic a little bit there? No need!
Strategic Planning is one of those things that sounds scary and hard and like it will take you a huge amount of time. But really, it’s just thinking about the future and what you want to do in your library. Generally strategic plans will be about three to five years. After that point, it becomes tougher to know what is going to be happening in your library and in the world around you. The idea is that it is a long term plan. Shorter time periods are tactical plans, or project plans.
(We are working on a new Strategic Plan here at CMLE; so if you are in our geographic region expect that we will be asking you for your ideas as we create and modify plans to help serve our community!)
Today we are going to do a quick overview of the steps involved in Strategic Planning. Your planning process may be more complex, or may be more compressed – you should work on it the way that makes sense for your library and for your community. There are a lot of different ways to create a good plan; but these steps will get you there!
Contents on our full information page:
- Introduction
- Background
- Guest Host Kathy Parker
- Books We are Reading
- Conclusion
- Sample Plans
- 30 Sample Vision Statements
- 50 Sample Mission Statements
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