If your strategic planning process and meetings are not highly engaging, energizing, clarifying, focusing, and aligning your team… you’re doing it wrong.
Strategic planning, done well, should be one of the most dynamic and even enjoyable meeting of the minds. It should accelerate a leadership team’s ability to come together to clearly and concisely conclude and communicate not only what their […]
Being your best requires that you have full and effective access to your greatest talents, capabilities and resources. I call this a highly resourceful state. To me, when you can draw on the best resources that you have, that is the essence of what a “resourceful state” is.
The most successful professionals are able to draw on their talents, capabilities, and resources […]
The most successful leaders and professionals know that creating “value” is the key to their success. This is the most important result every professional must deliver to the people they serve. Whatever form “value” needs to take, the ability to provide it to those you serve is critical to your success. This is true no matter what your role is, and […]
Making Goals Really Matter and Work
Goals are critical measurements of accomplishment, progress, and success. However, how goals are created is a situation often rife with issues and challenges – especially when the goals are made up, or disconnected from a well-understood and sensible foundation.
Too many organizations have goals that are untethered to anything besides some percentage of growth, […]
How many times has your client absolutely needed what you have to offer, and they subverted you with the old line: “That’s great, but we don’t have budget for that.”
You are doing them and yourself a major disservice by allowing that to happen. In most peoples’ concept of a budget it is a rigid spending plan. That fails the common […]
As the great Peter Drucker: “It never fails to amaze me how you can take intelligent people, put them on a committee, and they come up with a decision only an idiot could make.”
Unfortunately, I have to agree with him. Too many times I see teams of talented, capable, experienced people come together – and struggle to efficiently and effectively […]
In our most recent blog, you learned that the most critical aspect of successful strategic planning is aligning your vision, mission, goals and strategies. This is essential in order to have the kind of insights and outcomes that generates dynamic results.
Typically, the weakest and most frequently missing elements of strategic planning are the vision and mission. That leaves a team […]
The greatest differentiator you can make is to be a high-value facilitator of what’s most important to your client. To that end, there is nothing more powerful, more compelling, more likely to get you selected, and more likely to get you paid than your ability to help facilitate clarity with your client. There is nothing that matches that. So do NOT focus […]
If you aspire to the level of becoming an Indispensable Partner in your client’s success, there is nothing more important to you than understanding what is most important to them. Having even extraordinary technical capabilities that your employer, client or organization needs is insufficient for being recognized, respected and rewarded to delivering the value that you […]
As a high-level strategy leader, have you ever considered what your ‘line of sight’ is likely to produce? What I mean by line of sight is the level or focal point that has your attention on a regular basis. Having worked with thousands of top leaders, managers, and technical experts from more than forty countries around the world, it became clear […]