The beauty of the 30-, 60-, 90-day approach is first that you can plan both your short-term and longer-term activities without planning too far out with all the uncertainties that long-term planning entails.įirst, add the longest-term event especially if it’s a major event, and then backfill the supporting activities that HAVE to happen.

Once, you are clear on your goals, and only then, should you start planning your activities. Practice – do you have the most appropriate convening venues or have circumstances and for example, forced you to move to more online and fewer in-person events? Is there new technology that you want to take advantage of to increase contributions to the community. People – do you have the right people on board? If you do, do you need to create greater engagement and what kind of activities would help that? Purpose – are you still on track with where you want to go? Or do you have to pivot and change direction? And what activities would help you move along either of those directions? When defining goals, you should consider the three areas that constitute the CoP Framework: Purpose, People, and Practice.

Even a relaxing social or get-together should have a community goal such as deepening social ties and trust, or networking. Do not have an activity just for the sake of having an activity. How do you create a 30-60-90-Day Action Plan?įirst you define your goals, then plan the activities to achieve those goals. Some of the preparatory activities might include a save-the-date email (a 30-day period activity), and the actual invitation (a 60-day period activity). For example, let’s assume you are looking at a February, March, April time frame, and you have a 120-person online event in April (in the 90-day period) where representatives of several countries need to share information about urban policy responses to climatic disasters. Secondly, many times longer term activities, especially events, involve a lot of shorter-term activities leading up to those events, and the 30-, 60-, 90-day approach can elegantly account for those. It ensures that longer term activities do not get overwhelmed by a lot of short-term activities. It enables you to clearly define what it is to be done and when. What is a 30-60-90-Day Action Planning Framework?Īs the name implies, this tool is a framework that enables you to plan your community activities over the short and medium term, that is, over the next 30, 60, and 90 days.ĭividing your activities into chunks makes your planning much more manageable. To create a 30-60-90-day action plan, first define your goals in the context of three key areas: purpose, people, and practice, and then plan activities in relation to those goals.Dividing activities into chunks makes planning more manageable and ensures that longer term activities do not get delayed or overwhelmed by a lot of short-term activities.The 30-60-90-Day Action Planning Framework is an approach that enables you to plan your community activities over the short and medium term, that is, over the next 30, 60, and 90 days.

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