Stronger Economies Together
Strategies for Building New Economic
Development Opportunities
Phase 1
SET Planning Guide
Informed Consent
Pre-Assessment
SET Training Summary Report Template
High Quality Plan Guidance
SET Regional Plan Template
Next Step Form - Submit after Module 9
A Snapshot of the SET Program (Time: 1 hour)
- What is SET?
- What it Offers to a Regional Team
- Who's Who? State Partners and Trainers
- Preview of the Training Program
- Training Materials:
Regional Economic Development 101 (Time: 4 hours)
- Exploring a Changing World: Some Major Trends
- Determining the Implications of These Trends
- Comparing Local and Regional Economic Development
- Looking at Regional Development
- Pinpointing What Should Your Region Do?
- Training Materials:
Building a Strong Regional Team (Time: 3 hours)
- Determining elements of a sound team
- Developing a call to action
- Inviting broad participation
- Sustaining momentum
- Exploring teambuilding in your region
- Training Materials:
Your Regional Vision & Goals (Time: 4 hours)
- Defining Your Vision
- Determining the Features of a Vision Statement
- Developing a Vision Statement
- Focusing on Regional Goals
- Training Materials:
Exploring Regional Assets and Barriers (Time: 4 hours)
- Examining asset-based regional development
- Discovering assets that exist locally
- Pinpointing barriers to achieving regional goals
- Reviewing and adjusting regional goals as needed
- Training Materials:
Examining Current Demographic
Features of Your Region (Time: 5 hours)
- Local and regional demographic data: A look at past, present and future features of the region's population
- Key national and global trends
- Features of the regional labor force
- What features/trends mean for your regional economic development goals
- Training Materials:
Exploring the Region's Economic Foundation
and Development Opportunities (Time: 7 hours)
- Webinar 02/28/11
- Investigating the economic base of the region: Current economic drivers
- Understanding regional comparative advantages
- Determining your regional economic development advantages: Some key tools
- Exploring Value-Added Strategies
- Training Materials:
Planning for Success (Time: 4 hours)
- Refining the Goal
- Identifying the ABC's of Success
- Selecting Strategies
- Planning for Action
- Training Materials:
Measuring for Success (Time: 3 hours)
- Exploring the Value of Measuring
- Deciding What to Measure
- Using Measures to Promote Success
- Tracking Appropriate Measures
- Creating a Regional Plan for Measuring Success
- Training Materials:
Post Assessment
Partners Matrix