Amana Highway Collaborative (Scenario)
The Regional Planning Council convened a group of stakeholders, including the Department of Transportation and the Department of Community Affairs, who are interested in working together on improving a major highway called Amana Highway. Firas is the senior planner for the Regional Planning Council. Firas successfully obtained a technical assistance grant. The intent is to organize the 15 small communities along Amana Highway into an intergovernmental unit. All of the communities will share the same visioning processes of mission, objectives, and tasks. Firas is now charged with developing a strategic plan for this group, called the Amana Highway Collaborative.
-First, Firas must determine the goals he wants to achieve. To do so, he must follow a series of steps for goal setting. The first step in setting goals for this new group should be to ____________.
A) determine the goals individually and then ask for input from others
B) evaluate available resources
C) request input from others and then formulate specific goals
D) formally establish the organization's mission

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The first step in setting goals for a new organization is to formally establish its mission, vision, and objectives. This will provide a framework for the development of specific tasks and goals. Therefore, option D is the best choice. Option A is not a recommended approach because it disregards the need for shared vision and objectives. Option B is premature as it assumes that the goals are already established. Option C is also not optimal because it risks dilution of the group's vision and objectives by incorporating too many competing viewpoints.