Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning

Kho Chung Wei
21 July 2024

Acknowledgement: All the notes in the slides are taken from https://www.itfglobal.org/sites/default/files/node/resources/files/Stage%203.2%20Powerpoint%20.pptx

Success Criteria

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Develop a strategic plan to grow Sarawak Teachers' Union into your ideal union

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Word Cloud

When you heard of the term "strategic planning", what comes to your mind?

Poll

Does your Union division have a strategic plan?

• Yes

• No

• Don't know

Strategic Planning - A Road Map

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will do but you may discover that you have little control over where you end up.


In today’s world, a union without a strategy and a clear vision about what it wishes to achieve is not likely to be successful.

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Strategic Planning - Beyond Reacting

•  All too often unions simply react to management and government initiatives, or seek short-term objectives.

• Most unions do some planning mostly around a schedule dictated by their regular duties: disputes, handling grievances, contract negotiations, regular union meetings, elections, political lobbying, organising, and participating in labour bodies conferences and various other activities which are all part of the regular demands of union life.

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Open Ended

Why do we (as a union) need to make strategic plans?

Strategic Planning - Why?

• A core leadership skill

• Requires you to ask and answer questions important to the union

• Enables you to set goals and forces you to set priorities

• Provides both a framework for decision making and a basis for measuring performance

• Makes the organisation purposeful and sets direction for the union, its members and the community it seeks to influence

• Provides a vehicle to develop a common framework and language about problems central to the future of their union

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Strategic Planning - Defined

• Means looking beyond these important activities and analysing your situation to develop long-range goals, and working out the specific steps to get from where you currently are to where you need to be

• Charts a course to:

  • organise what we have

  • acquire what we need

  • get what we want

• A systematic method for engaging all decision-makers in the union in understanding what is required for the future.

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Strategic Planning - What It's Not

• Just process, no substance

• Just substance, no process

• Megatrends

• Endless crafting of a mission statement

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Strategic Planning - 5 Basic Steps

1. Mission / Vision / Values / Objectives

2. Assess the current environment - SWOT analysis

3. Develop priorities and goals (SMART)

4. Action plan

5. Evaluate

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The best way to predict the future is to create it, and strategic planning is participating in the creation of the future.

Your Mission

Now, it's your turn to participate in the creation of the future of STU. Following the 5 basic steps in strategic planning, develop a strategic plan to grow Sarawak Teachers' Union into your ideal union.

​Kho Chung Wei 21 July 2024