Stronger Economies Together
Phase 3
Introduction
SET Planning Guide
Pre-Assessment
Partners Matrix
SET Training Summary Report Template
Roles & Responsibilities
Attendance Template
Participant's Manual Cover
High Quality Plan Guidance
SET Regional Plan Template
Next Step Form - Submit after Module 9
Certificate of Completion
The SET Initiative: An Introduction(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
Profiling Your Region (Time: 3 hours)
- Reviewing key elements of SET
- Defining and examining economic development activities
- Examining approaches to defining a region
- Exploring regional demographic features
Building a Strong Regional Team (Time: 4 hours)
- Determining elements of a sound team
- Developing a call to action
- Inviting broad participation
- Creating a succession plan
- Exploring habits of highly effective regional teams
Developing Your Vision and Goals (Time: 4 hours)
- Defining your vision
- Determining the features of a vision statement
- Developing a vision statement
- Determining the elements of a good regional goals
Focusing on Regional Comparative Advantage (Time: 6 hours)
- Investigating elements that contribute to regional economic advantage
- Exploring data that may help identify regional clusters
- Selecting clusters for further exploration
Exploring Strategies for Enhancing the Regional Economy (Time: 4 hours)
- Identifying economic leaks in the region
- Exploring basic avenues for strengthening clusters
- Providing specific strategies within each avenue
- Selecting potential directions for the region to explore
Discovering Regional Assets & Barriers (Time: 5 hours)
- Examining asset-based regional development
- Discovering assets that exist locally
- Pinpointing potential barriers
Planning for Success (Time: 4 hours)
- Defining the regional goals
- Identifying the ABCs of success
- Selecting strategies
- Planning for action
Measuring for Success (Time: 4 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
Post Assessment
References