Goals, Priorities, and Strategies (Part 1)

So we have identified the 3 P's of Education - Purpose, Priorities, and Productivity. We are ready to take action - but how? First things first, we need a road-map of what we are going to do. This starts with our Goals, set by our first 2 P's.

The best place to start is your ideal, somewhere in the near future (say 5 years), when you have consistently been honing your purpose, identifying your priorities, and productively working towards those goals, what will your building look, sound, feel like? How will the conversations in the community about your school sound? How have you communicated, branded, sold the importance of your message to all of your stakeholders.

Now start to work backwards. Based on that, what can you shoot for in 3 years. To get there, what needs to happen this year? In order for that to happen, what has to happen this month? In order for that to happen, what needs to be done by this week? So what specific actions can you do TODAY to make progress. Who else can take on some of the action steps with you?

This "Goal Setting To The Know" as Gary Keller and Jay Papasan call it is a powerful vision setting activity, but then quickly moves into definable action steps you can start immediately. And with those action steps, hopefully you can make them measurable. How can you quantify that those steps have been done, and the progress they have made for you?

In the Part II post, I will provide you with a resource sheet you can use for creating this road map from the destination to create your journey.

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