Strategy 2012
Developing a Program Strategy
Notes from discussions (taken from flipcharts)
File:Flipcharts Nov 12-14 2.doc Process / Objectives / Deliverables
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish Concept for a Leadership Strategy Retreat
The proposal for the Livestock and Fish CRP lays out a strategy and approach for implementing an agenda of focused research leading in a relatively short time to a large-scale intervention and ‘proof at scale’. A CRP leadership team composed of the CRP management team and the Component Leaders has now been formed to take primary responsibility for implementing the CRP. This note describes a leadership retreat being organized to consolidate the team and create together an implementation strategy.
Purpose:
- Team-building: create a cohesiveness and sense of a shared mission among the team, and agree on our modes of working together
- Strategy: begin the process of translating the CRP strategy outlined in the proposal into a strategy document that identifies critical success factors we will need to focus on
Proposed agenda
Setting up
- Aims of this event TR
- Intros
- What I want out of this event
- Agreeing ‘success’ for this event
The story so far TR
- Background
- The proposal
- TR’s picture
- Q&A
The proposal document: questions? Issues?
What is success for CRP 3.7?
Situation analysis
- PESTEL
- SWOT
- Risks
Identify strategic issues
? Strategic objectives (if needed)
How will we know whether we are succeeding?
CSFs
Working as a team
- Are we a team? If so, what kind? What are respective roles in the team?
- What do we need in order to work effectively together?
Systems / processes Meeting practices Coordinating Updating / informing Planning actions Participants: George Levvy Facilitator Tom Randolph CRP Director Stuart Worsley Head, Development Partnerships Jens Peter Dalsgaard WorldFish CRP Program Manager Katie Hamilton CRP Program Support Manager Peter Ballantyne KMIS Phil Toye Leader, Animal Health Component Mwai Okeyo Leader, Animal & Fish Genetics Component Michael Blummel Leader, Feeds Component Acho Okike Leader, Value Chain Development Component An Notenbaert Leader, Targeting Component Kathy Colverson Leader, Gender and Learning Component Barbara Rischkowsky ICARDA representative Absent: Michael Peters CIAT representative Rosekellen Njiru Administrative support
Venue: Resident outside Nairobi - BRACKENHURST KENYA LIMITED - Tigoni
Dates: 12-14 November 2012 Start time: 8:30
Participants expected to arrive on Sunday 11th November and leave on Thursday 15th November
Format: A mix of strategy development and team-building exercises.
- Strategy development: This would follow the logic of the ILRI Strategy process with the end product envisaged as a CRP strategy document that builds on the strategy outlined in the CRP proposal. This strategy document would be shorter, crisper and more user-friendly than the CRP proposal. We will take the strategy as largely given from the approved proposal, but the process is meant to:
- Provide an opportunity for the team to critique and tighten up the strategy
- Create a common understanding and ownership of the strategy
- Add the element of Critical Success Factors to the strategy that can be subsequently used as a framework for focusing and monitoring our management efforts.
The process would include: developing a purpose statement, strategic objectives, a SWOT and Critical Success Factors.
- Team-building and management skills: The focus here would be on soft skills that would improve our ability to work together and be effective. This might include:
- Assessing how our personal management styles, values, strengths and weaknesses, complement each other
- Listening and communication skills
- Team management, especially when many members are not located together
