NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS
Given these shifts, the Strategic Direction aspect of the planning exercise took on several important assumptions. The 3 SPTF Working groups had to assume that:
Future member engagement may reflect strikingly di erent opportunities to engage and in the short term have less or di erent kinds of face-to-face interaction (i.e. perhaps less dependence on flagship events like Annual Convention); The possibility of a budget-zero assumption. Each SPTF workgroup had the same basic point of departure - needed to creatively “build on” existing resources or clarify the places existing strategies or interventions might be strengthened/augmented. The idea of better leveraging the rich and diverse supply of human talent and social connections NSBE members’ have available across its various student leaders, Special Interest Groups (SIGs), chapters, regional leaders and Board of Corporate A liates (BCA) and other partners. Each new group of annual NSBE leaders will have the opportunity to review (and sometimes re-shue) the “just-mix” of priorities, critical action and indicators important to fuel NSBE achieving its vision and mission Building Strategic Direction Pathways With these assumptions as backdrop and consultant facilitation, the SPTF working groups (led by a key SPTF member with subject matter expertise and practical experience) built their respective Strategic Direction pathways (i.e. Ready! - the PreCollegiate Engagement pathway; Set!! - the Scholastic Achievement pathway, and finally GO!!! - the Professional Advancement pathway). Each SPTF workgroup gave thoughtful time and attention to the mix of elements necessary to appreciably advance movement across their part of the developmental continuum. They imagined their pathway spanning a set of years, experiences and community partners (i.e. schools, mentors and support organizations) who would marshall a proven set of programmatic strategies and interventions, partnership and all the coordinated footwork, improvisation and social capital that created repeatable success and PULLED students from pre-collegiate experiences through the seminal College experiences, and into to their Professional careers. Each workgroup built their Strategic Direction pathway with attention to the following three (3) elements: the capacity for and right mix of evidence-based and practice-proven programmatic interventions that reflects members and stakeholders’ needs, aspirations and development goals ; an approach that can appreciably advance NSBE’s critical action initiatives. Within the scope of its current organizational resources; and A destination that student, executive and board leadership, members and stakeholder partners will journey forward to realize important results.
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