Community Visioning - Workshop 2

Participant Brainstorming Sheets

Each group at the second visioning workshop received a "brainstorming sheet" based on one of six categories: Organization, Design, Promotion, Economic Restructuring, Safe & Clean and Attitudes. Page 1 dealt with improvements related to specific subcategories. Page 2 asked for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) that may affect downtown Wilkes-Barre.

Both pages of Group A are shown below. Since the SWOT analysis on Page 2 was the same for all Group categories, only the first pages of Groups B-F are shown on the next page.

A summary of the SWOT analysis was presented at Workshop #3

[ ] GROUP A – ORGANIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

You will have 15 minutes to write as many answers as you can think of to answer the following questions.  Select your top two answers to share with the group.

1. Based upon the concepts generated at the last workshop to define Wilkes-Barre in 2010 what specific organizational improvements do you want for Wilkes-Barre? Be specific about the actions, especially as they relate to:

PARTNERSHIPS

UNIFIED APPROACH

FOCUSED EFFORTS

PRIORITIZING ACTIVITIES

OTHER

2. Relative to the issue of ORGANIZATION, list five strengths and five weaknesses that you see currently affecting downtown Wilkes-Barre.

3. Relative to the issue of ORGANIZATION, list five opportunities and five threats that you see potentially affecting downtown Wilkes-Barre.