2017 Division Strategic Planning
Process and Timeline:
1.Review IPPA’s strategic aims and goals for divisions
2.Work with leadership team (and Advisors if applicable) to develop corresponding activities
3.April 1st – Share proposals with Divisions Committee for review
4.April 2017 – Share proposals with division members for comment and Q&A
5.May 1st – Send final proposals seek Executive Committee for approval
Components of Your Report:
Please outline your division’s plans for 2017, including any projected budget requests or requests of other support from IPPA for the following categories:
I. Membership (Recruitment, Engagement)
II. Programming
III. External Support or Partnerships
IV. Leadership/Governance/Team-building
V. Other Activities
If you are proposing a new activity or offering, please include:
1. A brief description of the proposed activity/resource/program and explanation of how it:
- Mission: align with and advance IPPA’s mission
- Membership: fulfills a need and will be of value to members
- Standards: will meet IPPA’s scientific/ ethical standards
- Sustainability: might be resourced for long-term success and/or generate revenue
2. Name and contact information for division lead
3. A timeline for developing and executing the idea
4. A plan for funding, sustaining or managing operations (if applicable)
5. Anticipated budget (if applicable) 6. Requested support from IPPA (e.g. promotion)
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT TEMPLATE HERE
Send completed forms to: jbrennan@ippanetwork.org
Considerations for Planning:
I. Membership:
- Plan for Member Engagement & Communication
- Plan for Member Recruitment
- Org-wide opportunities:
- Consider member benefits in relation to other orgs
- Develop new organizational membership level
- Create evaluation tool for potential partnerships
- Changes to IPPA membership:
- Affiliate level discontinued as of December 31, 2016
- Student level – accredited school
- IPPA Organizational membership level
II. Programming
- Include your plan for past and current offerings
- Use template to propose new offerings with budget – could they be implemented w/ all divisions?
- Org-wide Programs/Initiatives:
- Enhance virtual events and resources (e.g. PPLS, Learning Library, etc.)
- Mentoring Program
- Develop Ethical Standards of Practice for Application
- Online Communities for researchers and practitioners: searchable, interactive member-driven resource containing tools, research, case studies, etc. where discussion, learning and connection can take place. Things divisions can do right now:
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- Conduct a Literature Review of the body of research related to your topic to identify key topic themes (and holes). This might turn into something that your division could publish in a scholarly journal.
- Invite division members to submit their own work – research and theory articles, case studies, white papers, etc. (See Monthly News Roundup submission guidelines in the Division toolkit)
- Review the online Learning Library on ippanetwork.org and identify relevant presentations that we can pull into a stand-alone collection based on your topic. This Library contains over 100 presentations from past World Congress presentations, the Positive Psychology Leader Series, and other conferences from around the world).
- Investigate what other organizations or companies are offering along these lines and identify elements that you would like to copy, build upon, etc.
III. External Support/Partnerships
- Priority targets: Which organizations would you like to build a relationship with? Why? What might that relationship look like (e.g. joint promotion, sponsorship, collaborator?)
- Sources of funding: Which companies, foundations, grants might support your divisions’ activities or divisions program? What pay-for-play opportunities exist?
IV. Leadership/Governance/Team-Building
- Leadership development: What trainings or opportunities might you provide your leadership team and/or division members to build division leadership capacity?
- Governance: How will you develop, document and clarify your divisions’ procedures and policies? (e.g. create Bylaws, division manual, etc.)