Personal planning questions for a purposeful, powerful new year
As you embark upon a new year, taking time to reflect, celebrate successes from the past year, and plan new goals is an important step for purposefully, powerfully, and joyfully…
Five ways to maximize the value of strategic planning by taking a social approach
Who ever heard of maximizing your strategic planning process by leveraging social media? Exactly! This is why your company should be doing just that. With minimal cost, your company can…
How tracking your strategic plan can be fun, actually!
Your strategic plan should be your company’s living blueprint guiding today, tomorrow, and the foreseeable future – not a shelf ornament. Rather than a passive and difficult-to-digest document, a vibrant…
How to hire strategic planning expertise from the outside, while driving the process from inside
So, you’re embarking on your organization’s strategic planning process, leading the charge, and feeling far, far behind. You know you need to hire some outside help. But where do you…
How to create a profound, action-oriented strategic plan
An action-oriented strategic plan includes basic ingredients: The organization’s vision, mission, a succinct summary of external forces shaping competitive threats, an unvarnished assessment of the organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and…
Three easy steps for kick-starting an inspiring, engaging strategic planning session
One of my favorite parts of strategic planning involves engaging participants from the get-go. When a strategic planning session is kicked off with a group of participants who feel valued…
Is it a strategic plan refresh, or an overhaul?
As a board member, this was the worst strategic planning session I had ever attended. At a fancy hotel conference room, a well-meaning facilitator started off a half-day strategic planning…
Top three predictors of a successful strategic plan
Summer is a great time for strategic planning! As onewho’s led and shaped a wide variety of corporate,nonprofit and small business strategic planning sessions,I’ve found three top predictors leading to…