Once you have narrowed your choices to the four, five, or six categories that you agree ought to be included in your PEO, it's time to start drafting a first version. Unfortunately, there is no formula you can apply to make this part of the process easy. It takes a lot of trial and error to frame the sentence just right. Remember that drafting these objectives will require a lot of give and take among committee members and, later, faculty. It's important to create an atmosphere that is as open and accepting of ideas as possible.
Disagreement can be beneficial.
These objectives will provide the vision that will guide your department for the foreseeable future, so everyone must feel that he or she has been given the opportunity to be a full participant in the process. Notice that the five sentences are associated with the first five categories in the examples listed above. Notice also that the sentence for each objective describe a broad, encompassing vision for the department, detailing not the curriculum but the goals that should guide the curriculum. Start out by reminding the group what needs they had expressed. You might also mention the input from various other sources and the way you have dealt with that input.