Strategic Planning
I have been implementing strategic planning since 2017, when I was the director of the Joint Directorate of Baikal Protected Areas. But I fully mastered the approach in 2019. I was able not only to adapt strategic planning, which is often used in business, but also to rework the methods so that they work for conservation purposes.
One of the main approaches in my work is to conduct Strategy sessions. For them, I use my own methodology, created on the basis of the ToP Facilitation of the international association of facilitators ICA International with changes made by Timur Sokolov & Partners and adapted by me for use in the non-profit sector.
In 4 years, I have held about 40 strategic sessions for conservation institutions and their departments. Some of them are for the implementation of strategic planning, some within the framework of projects, for example, to assess the effectiveness of the management of the Far Eastern protected areas or the development of the Great Ural Way project.
Based on the results of the sessions I prepare relevant documents - concepts and strategies for the development of tourism and other areas of activity of PAs. But documents are not the main result of my work, the main thing is the understanding by the team of the institution of development directions, the plan for their implementation and the direct participation of employees in this work.
Several organizations are now using the new planning approach, such as the Taganay National Park, Kronotsky and Sikhote-Alin Reserves.
Additional materials:
- Seminar on the development of PAs (pdf-file of presentation);
- An example of the structure of the document - Concept and strategy... Kalevala National Park (pdf-file of document structure);
- An example of the structure of the document - Concept and strategy... Sikhote-Alin Reserve (pdf-file of document structure).
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