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10/19/06. The APS plan includes important additions
provided during the summer 2006 Executive Committee
meeting. Implementation plans are now being developed
to build momentum and make progress during the
months of November 2006 – January 2007. Initiatives
need to be well into the pilot stage with early results
available by the 2007 annual meeting.
American Prosthodontic Society
Strategic Plan
2006-2011
APS Planning Process
• In the Spring of 2005, the APS Executive Committee undertook a five
year strategy planning process. During the months leading up to the
February 2006 Annual Scientific Meeting several planning steps took
place.
– Conference calls were conducted with APS members to identify points of
satisfaction and expectation of APS in order to effectively target a society
wide survey
– A survey to determine overall member satisfaction with and expectations
of APS was conducted.
– A Strategy Planning Team of (#) APS members met to review the data
collected about member satisfaction and expectations of APS. These
members developed the five year plan on February 22, 2006 – the day
before the 2006 APS Annual Scientific Meeting.
– This overview is a summary of their Thinking and Planning.
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APS Thinking and Planning Template
STAKEHOLDERS
NEEDS
Mission
• What is our purpose?
Active Member
(Practicing Dentist General/Specialist)
•Associate Member
(Cert. Dental
Technician)
•Graduate Student
Member
STRATEGIC GOALS
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
•Critical Thrusts
•Priority Areas
(usually 5 year
timeframe)
•Achievable Results
•Measurable
(usually 1 year timeframe)
•Affiliate Member
• Standing
Committees
ACTION PLANS
•Appointed
Committees
•APS Foundation
IMPLEMENTATION
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•What do we need to do to
achieve those results?
•Who? When? How?
•Do it.
•Accountability
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APS Purpose
Mission
• The mission of the American Prosthodontic Society is:
– To promote the advancement of the discipline of prosthodontics by
integrating the generalist, specialist and the dental laboratory technician
in a manner that will continuously seek improvement of patient
treatment. We will accomplish this through education and research.
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APS Five Year Plan
STRATEGIC GOALS
• APS Five Year Strategy (2006-2011)
– Vision
• Making significant improvements in the Health and Well
Being of our Dental Patients
• Priority Area #1 –
– APS Member Professional Development (Jim Hudson)
• Priority Area #2 –
– Dental Technology Advocacy (Todd Fridrich, Robert Kreyer)
• Priority Area #3 –
– APS Membership Growth (Ann Marie Leal)
• Priority Area #4 –
– APS Financial Viability (Bob Schneider)
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APS Member Professional Development
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE
• Grow and improve APS Study Clubs with a focus on Prosthodontic
and dental technology literature, issues and trends.
• Develop guidelines and an evaluation process for non-accredited
Prosthodontic continuing education courses in the US and abroad.
– Lead : Jim Hudson
– Recommended Team: John Ball, Steve Sadowsky, Baldwin
Marchack, Terry Lindquest
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APS Member Professional Development
ACTION PLANS
• Grow and improve APS Study Clubs with a focus on Prosthodontic
and dental technology literature, issues and trends.
Action
Responsibility
Due Date
Make initial contact with team members and provide summary of discussion points of
7/7/06 conference with other team leaders and Dennis Stiles.
Review the concept of creating a virtual APS Study Club. Go to
http://www.webex.com/overview/web-conferencing-overview.html
Consider a segment called ask the expert online. Harold’s suggestion
Harold to elaborate
Move to field test an APS CU effort on WebEx (or another hosting service) to field
test the concept with a few members of the planning work team.
Communicate with Bob and Ann Marie so they are aware of the potential of this
capability and can consider how this development capability might be of help to them
in their part of the strategic plan.
Baldwin
Fall 2006
Explore additional options available to us through the JPD super web hosting site.
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APS Member Professional Development
ACTION PLANS
• Develop guidelines and an evaluation process for non-accredited
Prosthodontic continuing education courses in the US and abroad.
Action
Responsibility
Due Date
Make initial contact with team members and provide summary of discussion points of
7/7/06 conference with other team leaders and Dennis Stiles.
Assign one or two team members the task of developing a generic evaluation
guideline for non-accredited CE courses. Check with other professional associations
to collect key resources and information that can be used to create the APS
guideline.
Terry
Consider expanding the APS website to include a link to a professional course
offering list where APS members could post a simple course evaluation and
commentary related to the CE course they may take.
Evaluate/Formulate hands on courses/workshops for the membership. Advise the
committee members of the action items and seek their advice. Consider this for the
2008 meeting. Speak with Carlo Ercoli, 2008 program chair.
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Dental Technology Advocacy
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE
• Develop a scholarship program for future dental technicians that
targets high school graduates entering the field.
• Build relationships and consult with dental laboratory technical
schools.
• Revise APS membership criteria (Bylaws) to afford Certified Dental
Technicians an “Active Member” status.
• Lead – Todd Fridrich, Robert Kreyer
• Recommended Team – Carlo Ercoli, Dennis Stiles, Robert Riggs,
Lee Jameson
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Dental Technology Advocacy
ACTION PLANS
•
Develop a scholarship program for future dental technicians that targets high school
graduates entering the field.
Action
Make initial contact with team members and provide summary of discussion points of 7/7/06
conference with other team leaders and Dennis Stiles.
Explore NADL Scholarships and Collaborate with NGS on their initiatives. Continue to participate in
the Pros Forum Meetings held in the fall.
Responsibility
Robert Kreyer
Bob Scneider
Contact a few dental technician professional programs where scholarship contributions would be
most welcome and have the greatest leverage for APS.
Elizabeth
Curran
Work with these target institutions to identify the core components of their course offering which
could be separately funded by a scholarship.
Lee Jameson
Dennis Stiles
Contact APS members who will know of corporate sponsors who would have an interest in
sponsoring (fellowships) dental technicians. Discuss how to approach these sponsors with the APS
Executive Committee. Make initial contacts and work to get scholarship funding underway.
Robert Riggs
Carlo Ercoli
Stay abreast of the work that ADEA has underway to create a standard curriculum for professional
certification of dental technicians and lend the support of APS.
Elizabeth
Curran
Establish an APS email newsletter to all DT programs.
Create an APS Power Point presentation on Fixed and Removable prosthetic technical procedures
to be used by educators. A call for slides could be issued by the APS to member educators.
Robert Riggs
Dennis Stiles
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Dental Technology Advocacy
ACTION PLANS
• Revise APS membership criteria (Bylaws) to afford Certified Dental
Technicians an “Active Member” status.
Action
Responsibility
Due Date
Underway. Identify any additional actions that are needed to complete this step. Contact
Denis Stiles for input.
Write an article in the autumn/fall issue of APS Newsletter regarding dental technologists
and their member status.
Robert Kreyer
Once the member status is changed to full active membership then this should be widely
publicized to grow technologist membership
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APS Membership Growth
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE
• Develop a mentoring program for graduate and undergraduate level
dental students and continue to offer opportunities for student
membership in APS
• Aggressively pursue a marketing and recruiting program for:
– Graduating dental students (GPs and students in Prosthodontic
graduate programs)
– General dentists who are dedicated to excellence in the discipline of
Prosthodontic (ie. LD Pankey, Spear and Dawson)
• Expand APS membership by initiating a grassroots outreach
membership campaign – “Recommend a Member” both in the US
and abroad.
• Lead – Ann Marie Leal
• Recommend Team – Greg Tulachka, Lee Jameson, Antonio Bello,
Sal Esposito
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APS Membership Growth
ACTION PLANS
• Develop a mentoring program for graduate and undergraduate level
dental students and continue to offer opportunities for student
membership in APS
Action
Responsibility
Due Date
Make initial contact with team members and provide summary of discussion points of
7/7/06 conference with other team leaders and Dennis Stiles.
Determine the target (protégées) for a mentoring program. In specific, identify the
number of mentors (APS members) to be trained and assigned to a mentorship effort.
Research existing materials and literature on Mentoring Programs and develop an APS
Mentorship Program for testing in 2007.
Connect with Jim Hudson on the WebEx capability to see how mentoring may be
enriched by the work he is doing on Study Clubs.
Launch a pilot program by the end of 2006. Be prepared to review approach at the 2007
national meeting.
Continue to contact the Pros Scholars and establish a mentor program with the students
and new graduates. They will be the class of 2007. Email contact on a regular basis.
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Jones
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APS Membership Growth
ACTION PLANS
• Aggressively pursue a marketing and recruiting program for:
– Graduating dental students (GPs and students in Prosthodontic
graduate programs)
– General dentists who are dedicated to excellence in the discipline of
Prosthodontic (ie. LD Pankey, Spear, Seattle Study clubs and Dawson
Institute)
Action
Responsibility
Due Date
Make initial contact with team members and provide summary of discussion
points of 7/7/06 conference with other team leaders and Dennis Stiles.
Organized and conduct focus group discussions with students from a few
institutions and with general dentists to determine their specific needs and
expectations from a professional organization. Identify what it will take to attract
and retain graduating dental students and new dentists to APS.
Pilot recruiting programs at 3-5 target locations and report findings at the annual
conference in 2007.
Mentoring program to target the APS Pros Scholars. Need to contact Bill Harkins
and John Jones.
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APS Membership Growth
ACTION PLANS
• Expand APS membership by initiating a grassroots outreach
membership campaign – “Recommend a Member” both in the US
and abroad.
Action
Responsibility
Due Date
Make initial contact with team members and provide summary of discussion points
of 7/7/06 conference with other team leaders and Dennis Stiles.
Quickly communicate the need for additional “new” and “returning” members to all
APS members.
Identify the real benefits to the dental professional and develop collateral that can
be used by APS members to identify and approach their “Recommended member”.
Design a recognition program for members who recruit new members and create
an incentive program for the most new members sponsored. ( one free night at the
hotel)
Get materials into the hands of APS members by (date) so that recruit efforts can
take place now in anticipation of the creation of on-line study clubs and the annual
meting in early 2007.
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APS Financial Viability
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE
• Take steps to grow revenues and contain expenses in order to
achieve an 18 month operating capital cushion by March 2007.
• Lead – Bob Schneider
• Recommended Team – Harold Preiskel, Sal Esposito, Lee Jameson
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APS Financial Viability
ACTION PLANS
• Take steps to grow revenues and contain expenses in order to
achieve an 18 month operating capital cushion by March 2007.
Action
Grow our Corporate sponsorship to 50,000 per year. Define and refine guidelines
for the Corporate sponsors. Establish a three year term for the CS chair and stagger
committee members.
Establish a 300,000 operational fund.
Responsibility
Due Date
Jim Hudson/ Executive
committee
At the end of 5
years
Reevaluate our Guest fee program.
Explore non-dues revenue opportunities. Consider a silent auction at our meeting.
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