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A Strategic Plan 2003-2024  •  Written by the Citizens of Paulding County, Georgia

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DEFINITIONS OF TERMS

Action Steps - What the Vision Partner is going to do? A series of projects or events developed to meet the Strategy Benchmark for a specific Strategy.

Benchmark Team - A team that works along side Vision Partners, in developing Strategy Benchmarks for Key Strategies and updating them and the Key Benchmarks annually.

Community Meeting - An annual meeting to review the benchmarks and progress on strategies. The Vision Partners and public are invited.

Core Values - Character traits that guide daily decision-making.

Foundations - Interdependent areas that will provide a comprehensive Strategic Plan for the community: Economic Development, Education, Infrastructure, Quality of Life, Government, and Private Sector Leadership.

Foundation Team - Each Foundation has a team that is responsible for helping develop Strategic Alliances and recruiting new Vision Partners as needed for implementation.

Key Benchmarks - Cross-cutting annual measurements of the community's progress towards achieving its long-term Vision. This will require positive results from the six interdependent Foundations and provide accountability for the process.

Strategic Alliance - A group of Vision Partners who work together to implement a specific Strategy. The Vision Partners in the Alliance will elect a chair to be responsible for providing leadership. Alliance Benchmarks and Action Steps will be developed for the Strategic Alliance. The Vision Partners will then assume responsibility for the Action Steps that fall within their own scope of operations.

Strategy - A verbal picture of the future in a specific part of a particular Foundation. Twenty to thirty Strategies in each Foundation will provide a more detailed definition of each Foundation Vision. There are approximately five Priority Strategies for each Foundation. An example of a Strategy is "Increase the graduation rate."

Strategy Benchmark - Annual measurement of the progress of a specific strategy that provides accountability for the process on an annual basis for 3 to 10 years. Example: Increase the graduation rate 2% per year for 10 years. The Strategy Benchmark should be developed before the Action Steps.

Vision Task Force - A diverse group of 145 people responsible for the developing of the draft Vision document and making presentations on the draft document to community organizations.

Vision - A Vision defines what the community wants to be in the future in each of the six Foundation areas. The Long-term Vision includes the six Visions, Core Values, and Key Benchmarks.

Vision Partner - Any organization, business, civic group, government entity, church, etc. that has volunteered to collaborate with other community members to make the Strategic Plan reality. Vision Partners are the organizations who are responsible for making individual strategies reality.