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Avoid These 5 Strategic Planning Risks

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Create better strategic plans by avoiding these five common mistakes. Strategic planning takes a lot of time and energy. Here are some warning signs that you can look for to determine if your strategic planning process is flawed. It is a high-resource type of exercise.

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The Strategic Planning Process

Coaching Tip

The Planning Process. Knowing what''s important to the leadership of the organization and what they want to see happen allows the leadership team to focus its energy and achieve sustained high performance in taking action. Values often influence people''s choices about where to invest their energies.

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Revitalizing Strategic Planning: Workshop

Mike Cardus

– Because of inadequate planning, panic from being over budget, and the need to hurry up because the completion date has been extended too many times – the results are poor…Because NO-ONE Planned! Strategic planning is necessary part of every Managers life. Avoid the unnecessary expenditure of energy and capital.

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Productivity at Work: How to Lead Highly Productive Teams

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re like many leaders we work with, you face an unending stream of information, problems to solve, decisions to make, fires to put out, interruptions from email, texts, phone calls, messaging apps — and that’s not to mention the strategic projects you want to work on to build a better future. Strategic M.I.T.s

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The Three Rules of Intelligent Restraint

Lead Change Blog

In endurance training, you can apply simple rules of restraint to ramp up and ramp down your training program ahead of a race. Rules like the 10% Rule enable you to increase your training levels, but not so fast that you get hurt. Focus conserves energy that is needed to perform today as you transform for tomorrow.

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Work-Life Balance for a New Generation

Lead Change Blog

In the age of “work-life balance,” we’re trained to segment our attention, with the goal of being engaged with our professional and personal lives in equal measure. She is often described as a high-energy and engaging speaker and trainer, a motivator and change agent. But there is [.] Leadership Development Balance Change'

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How Important Is Coaching in Professional Development?

Leading Blog

Looking outward from inside our bodies, we see out into the world but can’t observe the effects of our own energy and behaviors on others as easily as those who are paying attention can see us. She facilitates strategic planning and executive coaching for clients in diverse industries, in governments, at non-profits, and in academia.