When forming your organization’s strategy and plan, it is quite natural for the flow to go from objectives to strategy to tactics. However, it is also possible to invert this process. That is, building a strategy from a tactic.
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In preparing to create and/or update your strategic plan, a good place to start is with one of the five key Planning Objective Categories: Strategic Growth.
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Irrespective of the size of your business, strategy and planning are essential elements of your corporate growth plan. As your business advances, it will move through three levels of organizational growth.
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Of all the patterns I’ve seen in my work with organizational leaders it is the enduring frustration they feel in trying to identify and deal effectively with internal conflict that rises to the top of the list.
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Consider a competent senior manager who confronts a problem. The CEO learns of this issue and steps in with the answer/solution. Problem solved and time to move on. But what just happened here?
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How can the CEO (or anyone for that matter) address issues unless they are made aware of them? Conversely, how can team members be expected to express questions and concerns openly, honestly and respectfully if their feedback is met with objections, defensiveness or worse? What to do?
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One of the most satisfying elements of managing others is the opportunity to help them discover, apply and improve upon their unique strengths. Before any manager can do this though, it’s helpful for them to identify their own.
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One of the most common and recurring themes that come up in discussion during strategy sessions with executive leaders is a frustration with plans that move forward only to stall out “inside the Red Zone.”
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As if business leaders needed another challenge, many face one that is complex and painful: Having to unwind an internal promotion that did not work out as planned.
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Here is a simplified approach to building out meaningful, measurable objectives that will help bring better business results and very quickly. Here are five key objectives to get you started.
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