Date: March 13
Time: 1-4 PM
Location: University of Delaware Harry L. Cannon Marine Studies Lab
Capacity: 20 people (first come first serve)
Cost: FREE with meeting registration!
Host: Lead Ed Lewandowski & Chris Petrone, DE Sea Grant
“Where are we going?” “How will we get there?” And, “What do we want to achieve?” These are the underlying questions that drive all strategic planning efforts. For many coastal resiliency efforts, the answers are a fundamental component of program development strategy (i.e. “logic model”). However, strategic planning is a discipline that works well for hierarchies. It is not well-suited to promote community or peer collaborations in which no one can tell anyone else what to do. Often, community resilience specialists find themselves operating with stakeholders or peers in open, loosely-connected networks rather than hierarchical environments. Also, strategic planning is not the right approach to design and guide change processes. It is simply too slow and unresponsive to keep up with the opportunities that quickly surface in stakeholder-driven initiatives. Instead, these types of stakeholder networks need to identify rapidly emerging opportunities and be agile enough to respond quickly with action(s). Strategic Doing™ is a leadership strategy that was introduced by Ed Morrison, a regional economic development advisor at the Purdue Center for Regional Development. It enables people to form action-oriented collaborations quickly, move them toward measurable outcomes, and make adjustments along the way. It yields replicable, scalable, and sustainable collaborations based on a simple set of rules.
