Virtual Series: Facilitating Strategic
Planning --
How to Earn a Certificate in the Series
These requirements are for participants in the Certificate Track in the
Series. It requires approximately 13 hours to meet all of the requirements
for the Certificate during the eight weeks of the term. (Some collaborations
with CDI might have arranged different fees and requirements for the Certificate,
for example, to attend a certain number of facilitated peer learning sessions
instead of completing a capstone project. See How
to Collaborate With CDI to Offer Strategic Planning Training to Your Constituents.)
The deadline to enroll in the Certificate Track is the last day of the
first course per the Course
Schedule. The home
page includes the procedure to enroll in the Certificate Track and pay
the fee. The fee can be refunded before the scheduled end of the first course
if you decide to withdraw from the Series or transfer to the Audit Track.
(We recommend that you bookmark this page for your reference during the
Series.)
Many Reasons to Earn a Certificate
- To verify your increased knowledge and skills in facilitating strategic
planning.
- To enhance your credibility among your peers and clients.
- To increase your confidence in using your new abilities in facilitating
strategic planning.
- To increase your marketability in the increasingly competitive field
of strategic planning.
- To have a valuable professional goal to sustain motivation during
the Series.
- The activities to maximize your learning during the Series are the
same activities needed to earn the Certificate anyway.
- It is very unlikely that you would ever find a Certificate program
that is as highly accessible as this Series in CDI.
- Research shows that people are much less likely to complete a self-directed,
online program if they do not have some financial commitment to the
program.
- In this Series, faculty share feedback to the Journals and Strategic
Plans provided by the participants in the Certificate Track.
Requirements to Earn the Certificate
Paid the Fee for the Series
- You paid the $225 Certificate fee. This is a dramatically low price
for what is essentially a two-day workshop about facilitating strategic
planning! Do not judge the quality of this Series based on its low fees
– our goal is to spread strategic planning skills, and not to maximize
a profit.
Received Passing Grades on Quiz and Learning Journal for Each Course
- You watched the video.
- Grading – You answered at least 80% of the video's post-assessment
questions accurately.
- With your Learning Journal, you:
- Wrote at least a 150-word response to the "Pause for Reflection"
slide in the video.
- Wrote at least a 150-word essay to summarize and synthesize your
learning from the video.
- Received a grade of "pass" (on a pass/fail basis), based
on:
- Your reflection showed thoughtfulness and clarity in applying
the content of the course to your own situation and/or strategic
planning.
- Your summary and synthesis closely integrated many of the topics
in the content of the course.
- Your submission of your Journal within one week after the end
of the course.
This requires approximately 1.5 hours per course, or a total of 7.5 hours
during the Series.
Received Passing Grade on Capstone Project: Sample Strategic Plan
- During the 3rd course, "Customizing Your Strategic Planning Process",
you completed the Template to customize a strategic planning process.
- During the 4th and 5th courses, you completed, a customized, sample
Strategic Plan according to
the best practices specified in those two courses.
- You provided the Template and the Strategic Plan to faculty before the
end of the Series as specified on the Course Schedule.
Grading (pass/fail) – The purpose of this capstone project is to
demonstrate your understanding of the
best practices in developing a relevant, realistic and flexible Strategic
Plan. The purpose is not
necessarily to develop a Strategic Plan for your own organization. Thus,
you might need to do the
sample Plan for an imaginary organization, in order to meet the timing of
the assignments for this
Series. Faculty will assess the quality of your sample Strategic Plan based
on how well you implemented the best practices that were specified in the
4th and 5th courses. The Template and Plan
will be graded within 14 days after the end of the term.
The capstone requires approximately 5.5 hours during the Series.
(Return to the Series Facilitating
Strategic Planning.)
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