Creating Certainty in the Midst of Uncertainty

A strategic plan provides a flexible compass and roadmap for your organization. It has you analyze present and emerging circumstances and project into the future.

These days, I coach leaders to look at planning like molding clay. Continuously molding the plan as circumstances shift.

Done right, strategic planning can be an easy, fun, and inspiring process for involving all team members. It amplifies and accelerates the success of any team and organization.

Here are the 4 overarching phases of the process…

The 4 Phases of  Strategic Planning

  • The 4 Phases of Strategic Planning and the 12 Step Strategic Planning Process1st Phase: You and your team Clarify the direction to take the organization and why to do it.
  • 2nd Phase: Organize so that all team members are on the same page, moving in the same direction, toward the same common goals.
  • 3rd Phase: Your team Acts together collaborating to implement the action plan and keeping the plan alive.
  • 4th Phase: Monitor and adjust the plan to ensure the team is Realizing results that fulfill mutual desires and expectations.

Here are the 12 steps of the strategic planning process within each of the 4 phases… Read more

When dealing with today's uncertainty, reimagine your destiny by preparing for the unknown and focusing on what matters most now.Dealing with Today’s Uncertainty

Are you and your team feeling anxious about today’s uncertain business climate?

You’re not alone.

With record inflation on the heels of a global pandemic, businesses of all sizes are anxious about what the future holds.

I can surely relate. It certainly has disrupted how I serve my clients.

Prepare for the Unknown

What has worked time and again to ease stress in times like these is to CREATE A FLEXIBLE PLAN that can be molded like clay as circumstances change.

The key word is “flexible.”

The best companies expect the best and PREPARE FOR THE UNKNOWN.

Thinking through ways to pivot, before you need to, will give you and your team an INCREASED SENSE OF PURPOSE AND CONFIDENCE.

Focusing On What Matters Most

This approach will help you and your team to FOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS MOST now, with an eye toward the future.

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3 new year rituals to re-energize your businessThis time of year, I enjoy practicing 3 rituals to re-energize myself and my business that I think you’ll find valuable as well. At the beginning of each year, I reflect on where I’ve been, celebrate where I am now, and project where I want to go. 

 

Here are the 3 new year rituals I suggest you practice to re-energize yourself and your business:  Reflect, Celebrate, and Project

  1. Reflect on the Past Year

  • List all the successes that you have achieved personally and that your team has achieved together.
  • Identify all the adversities or problems you have overcome personally and as a team. Realize that they were truly blessings in disguise that will help you deal with similar issues in the future.
  • Use the successes and lessons learned during the past year as a springboard to new adventures in 2023.

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