OSFO Strategic Planning Preliminary Survey

OSFO Strategic Planning Preliminary Survey

The Strategic Plan is a document used to align an organisation’s daily operation and budget structure with the organisation’s priorities, mission, and objectives. The Strategic Plan includes: Vision; Mission; Long-Term Goals / Objectives / Key Performance Measurements; Strategic Priorities to Achieve the Goals / Objectives / KPIs.
Click here to read OSFO’s current Strategic Plan
A SWOT analysis helps with understanding where the organisation currently is. SWOT represents the first letter in:

S – Strengths

W – Weaknesses

O – Opportunities

T – Threats

These elements are crucial in assessing the strategic position of OSFO to build on the strengths; shore up the weaknesses; capitalise on the opportunities; and recognise the threats.
Strengths and Weaknesses are essentially internal to the organisation and relate to matters concerning resources, programs and organisation in four key areas:

–       Governance – policies, structure and function

–       Business – administration, finance, IT, promotion

–       Services – club services, education, membership

–       Sport – programs, pathways, high performance, sport resources, events
1. Identify 4 – 6 key Strengths of OSFO
2. Identify 4 – 6 key Weaknesses of OSFO
Opportunities and Threats are external to the organisation. External forces include:

–       Government and political

–       Legal

–       Technological

–       Social and ethical

–       Commercial

–       Environmental
3. Identify 4 – 6 key External Influences that will pose a Threat to OSFO
4. Identify 4 – 6 Key External Influences that will provide an Opportunity to OSFO
The Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) will help identify possible strategies by building on strengths, resolving weaknesses, exploiting opportunities and avoiding threats.
Vision – A Vision Statement is the anchor point of any strategic plan. It outlines what an organisation would like to ultimately achieve and gives purpose to the existence of the organisation. The Vision should be aspirational, inspirational and motivational.

The current OSFO Vision Statement is: 'To be the Leader in advocating Sports' collaboration throughout Oceania.'

Some other inspiring vision statement examples include:

Disney – To make people happy

Oxfam – A just world without poverty

Microsoft – Empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more

Nike – Bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world. (*If you have a body, you are an athlete)
To help us review the Vision for OSFO please answer the following questions in your own words:
5. What is the Purpose of OSFO? (Purpose is the reason OSFO exists)
6. What is the Challenge that OSFO seeks to address?
7. What would the world be like if that challenge did not exist?
Mission – While the Vision Statement outlines what an organisation strives for in the future, the Mission Statement describes what the organisation wants to do now. It should be a succinct encapsulation of the organisational strategy:

–       Why the organisation exists

–       Whom it serves

–       How it serves them

The current OSFO Mission Statement is: 'To Create, Sustain, Develop and Advocate an enabling environment that assists our Members to enhance the role of sport in all communities in the Oceania Region.'

Other examples of Mission Statements:

Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) – The best performing Continental Association by: Building and Strengthening Capacity, Cultivating regional and global partnerships, Contributing towards sporting excellence and leading by example.

Badminton Oceania – To lead and strengthen, in partnership with our stakeholders, innovative, sustainable and exciting development and event initiatives.

Oceania Basketball – To develop the sustainable growth of basketball in Oceania through internationally comparable structures, systems and processes.
To help us review the Mission Statement for OSFO please answer the following questions in your own words:
8. What does OSFO do?
9. How does OSFO do it?
10. For whom does OSFO do it?
11. What value does OSFO bring?
Values – Values represent the core priorities in the organisation’s culture, including what drives members’ priorities and how they truly act in the organisation, etc. They describe the core ethics or principles which the organisation will abide by, no matter what.

OSFO’s current core values listed in the Strategic Plan are: "Respect, Inclusiveness, Gathering, Honesty, Transparency (R-I-G-H-T)".

Other examples of Core Values are:

International Olympic Committee – Excellence, Friendship, Respect

Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee – Honesty, Excellence, Respect, Openness

Fiji Rugby Union - integrity, solidarity, respect, discipline and passion
12. From the list below select 3 – 5 Values that you consider important to OSFO:

IntegrityBoldnessHonestyBelievingTrustAccountabilityCommitment to MembersPassionFunHumilityContinuous LearningDiversityOwnershipConstant ImprovementLeadershipHelpingInnovationQualityTeamworkSimplicityDependabilityReliabilityLoyaltyCommitmentOpen-mindednessConsistencyEfficiencyCreativityCompassionMotivationPositivityOptimismRespectCourageEducationPerseveranceCaring
13. Feel free to suggest any additional Core Values important to OSFO that are not listed here:
15. Which Sport do you represent?
16. Your Name (Optional)
17. Your Email Address (Optional)
18. Further Comments (if any):
Thank you for taking the time to contribute to the development of the OSFO Strategic Plan 2022-2025.

In follow up to this survey, the data from contributors will be collated and two 90-minute Zoom workshops will be held at 1700 AEDT on 20 October and 10 November 2021. Zoom meeting invites will be emailed to OSFO member sports and survey respondents.
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