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Setting Women's Committee Goals


Questions To Achieve Committee Success
After you have determined what success means to your committee, you want to develop an approach to achieve success. Start by asking some relevant questions about your committee and the Sisters you want to involve. This document contains questions to assist you. These questions are grouped by the categories listed in the document titled: Ways To Decide What SUCCESS Means To Your Committee. Added to this document is a What’s In It For Me (WIIFM) question along with answers. Sis
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Creating a Strategic Plan
Approaches and Questions Situation – Target – Proposal Draw – See – Think – Plan Situation - Evaluate the current situation and how it came about. Target - Define goals and/or objectives (sometimes called ideal state). Path/Proposal - Map a possible route to the goals/objectives. Draw – See – Think – Plan Draw - What is the ideal image or the desired end state? See - What is today's situation? What is the gap from ideal and why? Think - What specific actions must be taken to
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Creating An Event Timeline & To Do List
A Timeline is an ordered representation of events generally displayed on a time scale. It can be an effective tool to display activities, goals, and action items. Some Basic Timeline Questions Include: What is the purpose of this Timeline? For example, conduct Outreach for recruiting women to join the UBC; increase Sister participation in committee meetings; or get your local SIB committee involved in National Events. What is the basic unit of measurement for this Timeline? F
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Goal Setting for Women's Committees
Use the following to set and achieve goals for your Committee: Ways to Choose Among Important Goals Questions to Develop a Goal Action Plan Ways to Choose Among Easy Versus Difficult Goals How to Set SMART Goals Ways To Choose Among Important Goals Extremely Important Very Important Somewhat Important Useful: When all goals are important and you need to make a choice Extremely Important (Do These First) Ways to Determine: This has to be done before anything else can be done.
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Ways To Decide What Success Means To Your Committee
Success might mean different things to different committees at different times. For some committees, success might mean to have more women attend meetings. For other committees, success might mean to have women at meetings focus on solutions rather than problems. Given these differences, there is no “one size fits all” approach committees can use to become successful. The key is to know what success means to your committee, right now, and to take actions to move in that dire
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