My Entry Plan
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Purpose: Build trust, gain insight into national, regional, and local dynamics, and establish a holistic understanding of the organizations impact.
Key Actions:
Conduct cross-functional listening sessions with directors, managers, partners, and community-based collaborators to understand existing priorities, successes, and needs.
Engage with organizational stakeholders across national, regional, and local teams to understand how the mission integrates with organizational goals..
Meet with external partners such as school districts, county offices of education, and public health agencies, to learn the strategies being implemented in diverse contexts.
Review data and reports on attendance, staff wellness, and student engagement to identify common themes, trends, and regional variations.
Familiarize with key frameworks and resources.
Observe and attend team meetings across departments to develop a systems-level understanding of influence.
Develop a “voice of the field” summary report highlighting key learnings from listening sessions, with themes in strengths, opportunities, and alignment areas.
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Purpose: Build synergy among internal and external partners, align goals to population health outcomes, and co-design scalable solutions that advance equitable recruitment and access.
Key Actions:
Co-develop measurable engagement, recruitment, retention, and equity goals with teams to ensure alignment with the mission and student needs.
Map assets and partnerships, identifying strengths and gaps in community collaboration, student/school system engagement, and cross-sector alignment.
Convene a Leadership Roundtable to facilitate shared learning, innovation exchange, and storytelling.
Collaborate with internal teams to align priorities and initiatives with broader organizational priorities.
Develop an Equity & Access Action Plan connecting population health strategies with culturally responsive practices in education and community engagement.
Design a recruitment communication toolkit to ensure consistent storytelling, branding, and sharing of impact narratives across the organization.
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Purpose: Implement early-impact projects, strengthen systems of accountability, and institutionalize data-driven evaluation frameworks that demonstrate the value of Graduate Studies.
Key Actions:
Launch early-impact projects in collaboration with teams.
Develop and implement an Evaluation Framework linking indicators to key metrics.
Establish a Data Dashboard to monitor progress toward goals, priorities, desired outcomes and equity benchmarks.
Create sustainability pathways by integrating principles into long-term contracts, policy recommendations, and local system improvement plans.
Publish and present results through regional convenings, conferences, and internal leadership communications to celebrate wins and share lessons learned.
Mentor emerging leaders and promote a learning culture grounded in collaboration, equity, and innovation.
Ensure long-term sustainability by embedding successful strategies into the organizational culture and vision.