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VISION DRIVEN STRATEGIC PLANNING Henry Luke created the Community Vision Process and facilitated the first Vision in Jacksonville, Florida in 1983. Since then, he has facilitated Vision Driven Strategic Planning in forty-eight communities in seventeen states/countries. The communities have varied geographically from Spokane, WA to Memphis, TN; Lexington, KY; Richmond, VA; and varied in size from metro Atlanta to Gillette, WY. The proven process has evolved into five steps that translate Vision and Strategy into reality. The steps are as follows: Phase I-VISION DEVELOPMENT 1. Community Strategic Plan-generate Core Values, Vision,Strategies, and Key benchmarks that define the community's future. Use a process that provides an opportunity for broad public . participation. Phase II-COLLABORATIVE IMPLEMENTATION 2. Vision Partners-Obtain the endorsement of Vision Partners committed to the long-term Collaborative Implementation of the Vision and Strategies. 3. Action Steps and Strategy Benchmarks-The Vision Partners will adopt specific strategies and develop Action Steps to make each strategy a reality. They will develop Strategy Benchmarks to measure annual progress. 4. Communication and Accountability-There will be constant communication with the community and Vision Partners about progress on individual strategies. There will be an annual report on the progress of the Key and Strategy Benchmarks to ensure accountability for the process. 5. Leadership-a diverse and community-based Steering Committee will provide leadership during the Phase I Vision Development process and during the Phase II Collaborative Implementation process. Management, staff support and coordination will be provided to the Steering Committee by the. Chamber of Commerce or the staff of a 501 C3 Corporation whose board is the Vision Steering Committee. TI-IE COMMUNITY'S STRATEGIC THINKING It is common to assume that long-range planning and strategic planning are the same, but in my terminology, they are not. Long-range planning is characterized as follows: · Projects current operation into the future · Does not invite thinking about what the organization or region should be · Plans determine direction rather than a clear sense of direction determining the plans · Is built from the lowest levels where information exists to make projections · Tends to be overly optimistic · Tends to be inflexible Strategic planning, however, produces a visionary statement of what the community wants to be 10 to 20 years in the future. This shared Vision of the future provides a framework for Collaborative Implementation that makes the Vision reality. 1 LPI