Your human services organization’s Director has appointed you to head the staff and management committee which will develop the organization’s planning effort. You have used strategic planning, management planning and program planning models before to develop the organization’s program planning. But you believe strongly that taking a strengths-based approach will produce better results for long term sustainable change in the community. Below, explain to the committee the three different types of planning models and then compare/contrast those to the methods of Assets Planning and Mapping. Describe one example of each of the three standard models (strategic, management and program) and then one example of Assets Planning and Mapping. Tell your committee in one sentence why you want

Question

to use Assets Planning and Mapping for the organization’s planning process.

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Ans: Strategic planning involves a process of deciding on the future of an organization, setting goals and objectives and identifying new resources
Management planning is the process by which managers assure that the resources, once obtained, are used efficiently and effectively in the accomplishments of the goals identified in the strategic plan.
Program planning is the development of a discrete set of activities that focus on one aspect of the overall mission of the organization: addresses a problem or need.