Strategic Doing: A Tool for Effective Partnerships

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Do you have a bias for action as you navigate the alignment of economic and community development strategies among stakeholders, funders, contributors and policy makers? Are you looking for a more effective way to support your community’s economic recovery through effective collaboration among employers, adult education, job training, postsecondary education, registered apprenticeship, career advancement activities, supportive services, and other partners?

More and more local areas and states are using a process called Strategic Doing to plan, implement, manage, and evaluate for maximum results - whether the end goal is a career pathways initiative, a recovery act green jobs project, or the development of a regional industry sector strategy.

Strategic Doing is not the same as Strategic Planning. Strategic Doing starts when a core group of people decide to conduct their planning and implementation work in a new way from conception through communications, process development, evaluation, learning and sharing, all leading up to a flexible and responsive Strategic Action Plan.

Join Ed Morrison, the developer of Strategic Doing, and Mike Mortell from Southeastern Wisconsin, a region that is using Strategic Doing to execute its own strategy, plus regional strategy expert Linda Fowler, to learn how this innovative approach can make your planning processes fast, flexible and (surprisingly) fun!

Additional Resources: After viewing the presentation on this page, you can dig deeper with self-study participant and facilitator guides that complement the pre-recorded presentation, available under "Related Resources" to the right.