Assignment II Private College & Strategic Planning Team Private College - 60 administrative and management staff, 40 faculty, 1,000 students and 15 board members. It is January and the college's president and board of directors are discussing developing a new / updated strategic plan. - The college is nearing completion of goals from the previous strategic plan and it is time to begin preparing for 18 months from now when a new plan needs to be solidly in place. This planning cycle will include obtaining input from the board, administrative and management staff, faculty, and students. This is something new. In past plans, only board and management input was included. Your strategic planning team has been tasked with developing a plan to obtain input from all four stakeholder groups. Your team asked that faculty, staff and students be allowed two (2) hours "offline" for this process. The college president enthusiastically approved. As you begin talking about scheduling, five management staff who are quite vocal are being just cooperative enough, but challenging at the same time. They think input from faculty, staff and students is unnecessary and are concerned about the downtime. The other twenty management staff are on board and fully supportive. This is not a familiar process for the college. Your team needs to make sure that the process makes all invited feel comfortable. Everyone needs to know that their input is valued and how it will be used. For Questions What do you need to consider before developing a plan of action? How would you use your strengths in this scenario? How would you use others' strengths in this scenario?