1. Being Strategic Annette Lees

2. Strategy is: The essential link between vision and outcome The internal logic that links all parts of our work Both thinking and planning

3. Six parts to strategic thinking 1.Understanding your mandate 2.Identifying the problem 3.Articulating your desired outcome 4.Picking your scale 5.Designing the solution 6.Delivering

4. 1. Understanding your mandate What is your organisation’s role in catchment management? Why are you engaged here? What are you obliged to achieve? What policies, plans and governance direct your work?

5. Mandate What authority do you have? Can you act directly or will you be working through influencing and persuading others? What is your promise to stakeholders and co- collaborators? How do you define the space for collaboration?

6. 2. Identifying the problem You can’t solve a problem that you haven’t correctly identified.

7. Check: Have you identified the real problem(dilemma)? Have you got to the cause of the problem? Have you picked the most important problem? Have you picked a problem that can be solved within your mandate?

8. 3. Articulating your desired outcome What do you want to achieve?

9. 4. Picking your scale How big or small do we go? Ask: At what scale are you mandated to work? How big is your problem? Will your scale solve your problem? What is your budget?

10. 5. Designing the solution Design a solution that will solve the problem. -Check assumptions -Lay out the internal logic of your plan -Describe partners and stakeholders -Balance planning with action -Define promise to stakeholders -Assess capacity and budget -Plan monitoring and reviewing, learning and improving

11. 6. Delivering: Get your own house in order

12. Effectiveness will depend on: - Know how and can do -Alignment in policy, planning and regulation -Integration of understanding and knowledge -Consistency in approach to community -Good communication

13. Group exercise Is your dilemma linked to a strategy issue? Is there a bright spark idea to resolve it? Going through the six parts of strategic planning, which parts has your organisation found to be the most challenging? Why? What can be done about that?