I just noticed, today, that among the several items listed under the Announcements heading on the I-SS web site Home page is a link to the Strategic Plan Survey. There is no real information given regarding the survey on the home page. It just has Strategic Plan Survey and under that it has Click Here to give us feedback on our Strategic Goals. There is no information on who is expected to take this survey or what I-SS plans to do with the results of the survey.
If you click on the link and go to the survey you will see that there is not much information there either. At the top of the page is the heading: EOY Review SMART Goals. Now I assumed that EOY meant End Of Year but I did not know what the acronym SMART stood for so I clicked on the ‘Quality in ISS’ link that is also on the I-SS Home web page and from there went to ‘Resources’ to find the link to the I-SS acronym list. Using the acronym list I verified that EOY did indeed represent End Of Year and I learned that SMART stood for Specific, Measurable, Aligned, Relevant, and Time-framed. I am glad that it was listed because I would never have figured that one out.
The instructions indicate that you should review each of the listed ‘suggested strategic indicators’ and indicate whether you agree or disagree with each one. Plus it states that you can leave suggestions for ‘improved measures, clarity, etc.’ I think the word clarity should have been in bold since, as I mentioned, there is not much clarity in the purpose of the survey. In addition, some of the Objectives/Goals listed are lacking in specificity. For example, Objective 2.1 gives some correlation values but does not explain what those values indicate. What percent of all I-SS stakeholders have had a statistics class? Speaking of percents, Objective 4.1 has blank spaces where the percent values are supposed to be given. I guess that once I-SS gets the responses to that one the administration will fill in the percents so the ‘data’ looks good.
Took the survey...hopefully (if they actually read these) gave them plenty to consider.
ReplyDeleteIf it is against anything that they do not want to hear, you will never see it again. That is the way they play. That is why most of us know that data is used to present what they want, not what should be discarded. That is why most of the data for Baldrige is flawed.
ReplyDeleteYou are so right September 6, 2009 2:17 PM ! If I hear the word "facili-manipulate" one more time, I might just regurgitate! None of it is real.
ReplyDeleteWelcome To Our World! Strategic Plan Survey!!!!
ReplyDeleteMaybe 10-25 people complete it. If all 25 complete then, it is 100%? Ask Brady Johnson specific numbers....../. He hasn't a clue. Steer on great 2nd mate. The trouble with mailed surveys is that they are not all returned. I'm going to get me a tee-shirt printed...If all else fails... manipulate the data.
If they are sent out but not returned how is that Mr. Johnson's fault? Some people got a mean streak that won't quit.
ReplyDeleteHEY!!!! September 7, 2009 2:58 PM how about answering how it is Mr.Johnson's fault if he offers a survey and people don't fill it out?!!! Quit blaming the wrong people. Wait, that is what this blog is for, I forgot. My bad.
ReplyDeleteAbove: What? I don't get it. You are bad??
ReplyDeleteWhoa. You are bad, and you are telling the world? Curious.
ReplyDeleteI have now been twice to the survey and it is down again.
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