NS Contract - Phillip Boyle Leading & Gov Associates Training & Facilitation Services

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a, • Strategic Direction and Policy Navigation for Orange County Purpose 1. Enhance the county's capacity to identify strategic. directions, goals, and priories. 2. Use these to help the board and staff navigate the best possible balance among -- -- _- ----multiple-county-needs-and=interests.- --- _ -- -_- _--_ __ Goals and Outcomes 1. Engage board and staff members in a collaborative planning process to create a greater shared understanding of the issues and challenges facing the county and county govemment today and a shared sense of direction about tomorrow. 2. Refine the mission, vision, core values, and guiding principles of county government to help focus on core county functions and help distinguish between what the county must do, should do, and could do. 3. Jointly chart a strategic direction for the county by identifying countywide goals, integrating board and staff goals; and connecting departmental goals to broader • county goals. 4. Strengthen communication, relationships, and the governing partnership between board members and staff: 5. Create a living document that can serve as a strategic guide for planning, focusing, organizing, and communicating the work of county government. Proposed Process and Tasks Step 1-Navigating Political Interests and Policy Choices (% day session + % day preparation) • Define the board's vision of the "good life" in Orange County • Identify driving forces and challenges #o the board's vision of the good life. • Practice using board tools and processes for navigating policy issues, balancing choices, and making collective decisions. Step 2 -Strategic Conversations (1/2 daysession + 7 day preparation) Purpose Follow-up on the board's discussion about public values and the-good life in Orange County to develop a greater shared vision and understanding of county government. •