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Tactic Development

Moving to Our Next Phase: Developing Tactics

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We need to base our tactics/actions on the most crucial problems we want to solve and the most important opportunities we can seize: it’s what we plan to do.

Tactics should be:

  • Active (phrase by starting with a verb)
  • Specific
  • Concise
  • Measurable (this leads to our creation of metrics)

May align to one of these functions:

  • Solving problems: prevention, intervention, disruption, restoration, remediation
  • Seizing opportunities: adaptation, promotion, enhancement, expansion, creation, transformation

Tactic Examples

Example 1: Take a challenge or opportunity

  • Example: Create opportunities for student leadership in COAS

Rework as a tactic

  • Create a student advisory board for each evolving or developed COAS school

Connect to a university goal and strategy

  • Goal 4, Strategy 1: Foster Thriving Community/Advance a learning and working environment dedicated to the flourishing, sense of belonging, and freedom of expression among all students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of the university.

Example 2: Take a challenge or opportunity

  • Example: Create opportunities for student leadership in COAS

Rework as a tactic

  • Expand Bronco Gap Year’s peer mentoring program

Connect to a university goal and strategy

  • Goal 1, Strategy 4: Improve Educational Access and Student Success/ Cultivate a Commitment to high-quality, new and innovative learning experiences in all courses, curricula and co-curricula

Tactic Development Template

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(adapted from SCUP Planning Institute 2 Participant Notebook, p. 28)
Prioritize the starred items. Fill out as much of the rest as you can.
The WG can help to fill out missing items.

What challenge/opportunity are you addressing?

*Draft Tactic

(Phrasing should be active, specific, and concise.)

Is this tactic a new action, or is this tactic is a change to what we do now?

*Blueprint Mapping

Which goal(s) and strategy/ies can be achieved through this action?

Stakeholders

Who will be accountable for the tactic?

Who will be involved in completing the tactic?

Resources

What resources will this tactic need?

Timing

What preparation is required to launch the tactic?

When will the tactic start?

When will the tactic be complete?

Metrics

How will we measure the success of this tactic?