Summer Strategic Planning Update

Mercy College’s Leadership Council gathered at Walbridge Park on Tuesday, June 21, for a Strategic Planning Retreat. The purpose of the day was to draft version 1.0 of Mercy College’s Strategic Plan to be presented to participants at the Mercy 2020 Summit on August 16 and 17. This version was developed based on the initial plan created by members of the Mercy 2020 Steering Committee.

The opening activity engaged individuals in filling in events on a time line dating from 1920 to the present. Noted were things occurring in the world, at Mercy College (Mercy School of Nursing), within one’s department or division at Mercy, and in one’s personal life. This time line provided interesting data for small group discussions throughout the day.

Work teams rotated to five stations to discuss these areas:

1. Significant events in the history of Mercy School of Nursing/Mercy College and a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis of the College.
2. Mission and Vision Statements for the College
3. Goals 
4. Core Values and Learning Outcomes
5. Strategic Planning Form and Guidebook – tools that will be used in the implementation of our Strategic Plan

Toward the end of the day, the leader for each “station” shared the day’s discussion with the whole group. Lastly all participated in the process of writing the mission, vision, values, and goal statements for version 1.0 of the Strategic Plan. Please review the video below

MERCY 2020 SUMMIT

Tuesday, August 16

7:30 to 8:30 a.m. – hot breakfast and registration

8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. – Summit

Wednesday, August 17

7:00 to 8:00 a.m. – hot breakfast and registration

8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon – Summit

Box lunch provided at noon

Location: 

Sullivan Center at Gesu Catholic Parish

2049 Parkside Blvd.

Toledo, OH 43607

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