Vision & Goal Setting
These models and tools help develop a common vision or set goals.
The links included in this section are listed below. Additional information about each link can be found lower on the page.
Creating Minds: Visioning
Provides a model for creating a common vision.
Creating Minds is a website that David Straker, an author of books on problem-solving and inventing, developed. The website identifies the principles of creativity and offers tools to help individuals and organizations become more creative, including tools for defining a problem and for creating, selecting, and implementing solutions.
Link to Tool
creatingminds.org/tools/visioning.htm
Logic Model Development Guide
Explains logic models and helps you develop a model.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation provides the Logic Model Development Guide, which offers an orientation to the underlying principles and language of the logic model. These models use pictorial tools such as tables and flow charts to help organizations plan and implement more effective programming, learn from their efforts, document their outcomes better, and share their knowledge about what works and why. It is a companion publication to the Evaluation Handbook.
Link to Website
www.wkkf.org
Link to Tool
www.wkkf.org/Pubs/Tools/Evaluation/Pub3669.pdf
SWOT Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
Provides an overview and sample matrix for conducting a SWOT Analysis.
To plan effectively, an organization must first analyze its current environment. SWOT is an abbreviation for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, the parts that make up that analysis. Through this simple guide, individuals can learn to do a SWOT analysis. It offers examples of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and provides simple rules for SWOTs. It also provides some real-life examples using major corporations. You can download a free software that allows you to create diagrams for your SWOT analysis.
Website
marketingteacher.com
Link to Tool
marketingteacher.com/Lessons/lesson_swot.htm