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2 <br /> make these initiatives successful? What are the implications for the Board's <br /> priority setting? <br /> 10:00 Brainstorm Board Priorities through June 30, 2016 <br /> Board members would be asked to think about this in advance, to arrive with ideas. <br /> Flesh out ideas in randomly created pairs and triads. Pairs/triads generate post-its <br /> and stick them to wall(s) for next step in process. <br /> 10:40 Break <br /> 11:00 Clarify the Ideas <br /> • Board members approach wall(s) upon which post-its are affixed, read the <br /> ideas, generate additional ideas on post-its if stimulated to do so, ask and <br /> answer questions, cluster similar ideas together and/or under existing-goal <br /> headings. <br /> • Board then reconvenes in full group for discussion: <br /> o Make sure all Board members understand all the ideas in the same way. <br /> o Any questions about any of the ideas? <br /> o Anyone want to elaborate on any ideas? <br /> o Any revisions needed to conform ideas with a one-year implementation <br /> timeframe? <br /> • Discussion shifts to the analytical: identify relationships across the ideas and <br /> between ideas and the current goals: Any contradictions? Any clear time- <br /> sequences? Any redundancies? Any nesting/subsuming of ideas into others <br /> needed? Do all the ideas fit under at least one of the current goals or might new <br /> goal statements be needed? Are there ideas that do not need further prioritizing <br /> by the Board because Board already is committed to it (e.g., it's in progress)? <br /> 12:00 Lunch Break <br /> 1:00 Choose from Among the Ideas <br /> • Each Commissioner lobbies for his/her top ideas (no numerical limit): "Why I <br /> think these should be our priorities." 7 Commissioners @ 4 minutes each = 30 <br /> minutes. <br /> • Group discussion <br /> • First (non-binding) poll of group preferences (each person can choose up to n/3 <br /> priorities, where n = the number of ideas on the menu; no "passion-piling:"you <br /> may vote once per idea). We should poll for priorities within one goal at a <br /> time. <br />