Three Year Plan

The need is to address all parts of society.

The Tasks for:

Pre-Launch - Year 1

Launch - Year 2

Year 3

Years 4,5 & 6

Membership costs

Cost projections

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Pre-Launch

• Development of Vision of a Learning Society

• Visiting individual MSPs and gaining their support

• Securing leadership support from MSPs

• Developing a picture of how we address the whole

• The Web page

• Securing support from Universities.

• Creating links with forward thinking groups

• Creating links with forward thinking individuals

• Education – identification of the challenge and innovative solutions

• The Private sector.

• The Public Sector

• Making contact with and involving the media

• Securing funding to make the project viable

• Formulating methods to have the initiative self financing in years to come.

• Formation of the Steering Group (s)

• Agreement on the theoretical foundations and the publication of the foundation

• Identification of international thinkers who will be prepared to make a presentation to the thought leading dinners

• Identification of International Thought Leaders who will contribute to the initiative

• Finalise dates and presentations to each dinner

• Video Conferencing – make arrangements

• Collation and editing of articles for the book.

• The development of a series of programmes for TV or the internet

• The writing of guidance notes for chairs of each thought leading dinner

• Identification of individuals who will secure a group of peers to each quarterly dinner and be will chair each dinner

• Workshop for chairs of Thought Leading dinners

• The Universities securing funding to be able to second a senior lecturer to the project.

• Pre-planning of a PR campaign that will launch the initiative.

• Development of a links to resources that can provide assistance to organisations

• Creating of a web based discussion site

• Creating a data base of all forward thinkers across Scotland.

• Establishing an administration resource.

• Membership recruitment

Year 1 - The Launch

• The launch of the vision

• The PR campaign in context of launch

• The Quarterly Thought Leading Dinners – management of:

• Co-ordination of the video conferencing arrangements

• Continued expansion of chairpersons who are willing to lead the thought leading dinners – plus locations

• Recruitment of members/supporters

• The promotion of action between dinners

• Continued support for the “volunteer” groups in the service they provide in context of the vision

• Maintaining links with all forward thinkers

• The TV film

• The formation of various project groups such as in Education, Organisational Learning, The Media, The Public Sector etc.

• Liaison with Press etc

• Co-ordination of  University activity

• The formation of various Lobbying groups in context of the application of modern concepts

• Financial management of the project

• Initiating research projects  - i.e. studying actual theories being used

• The continued development of The Book to cover methods as well as theories.

• The continued development of resources to assist companies

• The weeding out of those consultant practices that have failed to go upstream in their thinking – i.e. are still status quo thinkers

• Membership recruitment

Year 2

• Continued development of dinners and their offshoot projects

• Development of the lobbying power of the projects and of the participants in the  various groups all over the country

• Maintaining momentum

• Continued drive for members

• Reviewing progress and responding accordingly.

• Membership recruitment

• etc

Year 3, 4, & 5 etc

• The primary task is to maintain and build on the momentum secured
• The aim is that sometime in year 3 the initiative should be funded through its membership fees contribution.

• Societal learning is a long term vision. The initiative would recognise both its long term commitment plus the need to be both listening and continually improving

• The whole format, therefore, is likely to require refreshing in the later years.

Membership

The initiative would seek to be self financing in the third year after launch.

We would seek membership contribution in the order of:

Costs

We are looking at the costs to launch this initiative. It is thought that it will be self financing into the third year after its launch.

The funding shortfall to get the project off the ground is £565000