Question

Describe the process of developing a strategic plan and its core key element for a public health organization.

Answer 1

Stepwise strategic planning

1. prepared for plan: decide who will be involved in planning process. Gather all essential and accurate information regarding process.
2. Vision and mission: clear the statement of you vision and mission for the process. The vision reflects you goal, what you have to do and mission gives an overall future insight of your process.
3. Current and future position: identify your strength and weakness, it will positioned your process. If you identify strength of your process, your current position and future position will be secured.
4. Priorities: set priorities for future success. Strong priorities, what you want to achieve through process.
5. Put the plan: pilot your plan with different strategies (for example plan A and B or C) document it. Always be prepared for outcome of your plan because it may be positive or negative and wisely instruct team to apply plan. If A is not working than analyze plan B and quickly put it on the floor.
6. Task and assign actions: initially when you satisfy with the performance of your plan whether it is A or B or if you think it can stand in future, than assign task to team members and distribute work according to their expertise.
7. Performance accountability: continuous monitoring of plan and work distribution is important. For achieving successful process you have to monitor performance of team member and plan of action every month. It will give you idea about the weakness.

These are the several steps to achieve strategic planning.

Strategic planning is important in public health organization. Public health organizations are assigned for specific work which is related to health issue in mass population. Hence deciding a team is a critical step in PHO. A doctor, nurse and health worker is a minimum requirement for working in plan. Also their vision and mission will be clearly reflects their goal.

Strategic planning is very important in PHO because without deciding proper team, without a vision and mission and without a proper plan their goals could not be achieved. It is a key element in any organization. Organization has to plan properly, according to plan they have to recruit members and assign them a proper work. One should have to continue monitoring the success of plan.