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Leadership > Procedures

Leadership: Strategic Plan

During 2000-2001, Barbara Holder, WCC Past President 2000-01 initiated a year long effort to establish a 3-5 year strategic plan. Effective with the 2001-2 Board, WCC Executive for the next few years will be working with this Strategic Plan to create an annual Business Plan.

All the minutes and working documents are available via the 2000 Working Documents. The final checklist provides a snapshot of our thoughts in arriving at this strategic plan. We hope other units and future WCC executive will take advantage of our work.

We thank the Future Planning Committee (Jun-Sept 2000), the Strategic Planning Committee (Sept 2000-Feb 2001) and especially Karol Sinats, our facilitator and WCC member who guided us through the Strategic Planning process.

Mission

SLA WCC provides dynamic individuals and groups involved in the business of information with an energizing environment in which to build and share the skills and expertise they need to thrive and prosper in a changing economy. We achieve this through enterprising leadership, timely communication, meaningful mentoring and the provision of outstanding learning opportunities.

Values

The following values represent association and individual behaviours and define our interactions with members, partners, the parent organisation and each other:

  • adding value to information services and products
  • respecting the value and diversity of volunteer contributions
  • embracing change and innovation
  • promoting a positive industry/sector image
  • giving back to our organizations, information professionals, our community, and society
  • providing opportunities for continuous learning, professional development, and personal growth (mentorship)
  • fostering an open and accessible environment for collegiality, networking, alliances, partnerships
  • maintaining fiscal responsibility to our membership
  • customer/member focus

Strategies and Tactics

In support of SLA WCC's vision, mission, and priorities, the Strategic Plan is a visionary framework to enable SLA WCC officers, members, and partners to make decisions that affect the future. Annual operational (business) plans, developed by the current Chapter Board, provides specific directions toward achieving SLA WCC's strategic goals.

Broad Goals

  • SLA WCC has a strong, diversified, active, satisfied membership

  • SLA WCC further develops a flexible, responsive, human and technical infrastructure

  • SLA WCC continues to provide and promote innovative, quality, responsive, and timely professional development experiences

  • The Chapter is seen as a leader in the Western Canadian information management community

  • SLA WCC continues to work in partnership with SLA International to our mutual advantage

Strategic Initiatives

  1. SLA WCC has a strong, diversified, active, satisfied membership

    1. The chapter's innovative strategies result in an increased and satisfied membership

    2. The chapter's innovative strategies also result in an increased membership representation and participation from across the chapter including activities at the board, committee, and event attendance

    3. The SLA WCC executive manages its resources effectively to benefit SLA WCC members

    4. The AGM rotates location and is not tied to the president's location

    5. The executive fosters the expansion of mentoring and networking opportunities out to the broader membership, encouraging more alliances between member-practitioners, new professionals, and others practicing in the field of information management

  2. SLA WCC further develops a flexible, responsive human and technical infrastructure

    1. The executive develops a strategy to continue to develop as a true virtual chapter

    2. The executive communicates chapter business to the membership on a regular basis

    3. The executive devises and implements a planning cycle

    4. The chapter creates and manages financials in a standardized reporting framework

  3. SLA WCC continues to provide and promote innovative, quality, responsive and timely professional development experiences

    1. Information professionals within SLA WCC have equitable access to professional development opportunities including broad access to locally generated programs

    2. The chapter fosters new professionals

    3. Professional development opportunities provide recognizable qualifications whenever possible

  4. The chapter is seen as a leader in the Western Canadian information management community

    1. Proactively demonstrates our leadership capabilities in the Internet/knowledge economy

    2. Focuses on developing alliances with other organizations that have similar goals to our own

    3. Increases our profile in the business community

  5. SLA WCC continues to work in partnership with SLA International to our mutual advantage

    1. Develops a strategy to strengthen the partnership between SLA WCC and SLA International

    2. Fosters effective communication with SLA International

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