Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Balancing leadership strategy and tactics is critical for leaders at every level of an organization. When you don’t pay enough attention to strategy, you and your team end up lost in a wilderness of meaningless, unproductive busyness. The Danger of Focusing Only on Strategy. This weekend I went for a long trail run.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 28, 2023

If you find yourself caught in the day-to-day demands wondering how do I find time for strategy that allows me to invest in myself, be more effective, or invest in building my business, you don’t need a new productivity trick. 34:55 The worst thing we can do is try to work on the wrong area at the wrong time.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 18, 2021

Here are 3 sets of closely related choices – areas of focus – to help make sure you get the most from your business plan. Eliminating Pain Points vs. Progress in Strategy Execution. I recently met with a CEO to organize a strategic planning meeting with his leadership team. Forced Fit vs. Alignment. Struggle vs. Strength

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 1, 2023

If you create a relocation strategy, you will find that you can manage to make the move and transition seamless and painless. Within your strategy, you will want to think about why a move is positive for your business, and what obstacles you may face. Are you after an open-plan unit? Are you looking for minimum square footage?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2024

Employers often face many choices when selecting vision and dental for small business plans. The Importance of Including Vision and Dental Plans in Employee Benefits Integrating vision and dental benefits into your employee benefits strategy demonstrates a commitment to the overall well-being of your employees.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

With this valuable information, organizations can develop targeted strategies and initiatives to enhance board diversity and inclusion, ultimately creating a more diverse and inclusive leadership team. The post Enhancing Board Performance: Strategies for Effective Board Evaluations appeared first on N2Growth.

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Lead from Within

MAY 15, 2023

Effective communication of a company’s strategy is crucial for success, but many organizations struggle with it. Often, leaders believe that a strategy is something that is created at the top, and then the rest of the company has to implement. When people feel like they have a say, they will be more likely to buy into the plan.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Leading the long view takes place by engaging team members in creating co-ownership of the future-state vision and strategy that brings the vision to life. Vision is distilled into actionable priorities, which become the day-to-day operating plan guiding all team members in performing their work. Strategies are bundles of activities.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Without sound financial strategies, even the most innovative and promising ventures can stumble and fail. In this ever-evolving and competitive business landscape, entrepreneurs and business leaders must employ strategies that enable them not only to survive but thrive financially.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2023

The estate planning process can be complex. Clear communication, working with an experienced attorney, and routinely reviewing your plan can help. Clear communication, working with an experienced attorney, and routinely reviewing your plan can help. Your attorney can suggest strategies like trusts to accomplish this goal.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 30, 2020

Gleb Tsipursky: You probably heard the advice for entrepreneurs that “failing to plan is planning to fail.” Making plans is important, but our gut reaction is to plan for the best-case outcomes, ignoring the high likelihood that things will go wrong. succeeded in meeting the original planned resource expenditure.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 20, 2024

Here are five strategies to help you cut costs as a new business, which one will you try first? Stick to Your Budget Every business owner knows the importance of their annual budget, helping them to plan for the year and, hopefully, yield good profits.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

A manufacturing industry client had put a Digital Transformation Planning process in place before I began working them last year. The management team had done many of the right things in getting the planning program off of the ground – training, governance and executive oversight were all in place.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 23, 2021

Here are my 7 strategies that I always use to help me build collaborative relationships. Work to your strengths and have clear action plans so everyone knows what they are doing by when. I’d love to hear what strategies you are using to build effective collaborative relationships?

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Strategic plans become outdated the moment they’re created. Instead, create a one-page strategy map. Having run the internal strategy consulting group at HP, and then consulting to both startups and big companies like Disney, Visa, Colgate, Medtronic and others, I’ve created hundreds of strategic plans.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 25, 2023

The EEOC recently unveiled its new strategic plan, which outlines its goals and initiatives for the next five years. By decoding the new EEOC strategic plan, HR leaders can get a better understanding of how the organization aims to address workplace discrimination and promote equal employment opportunities.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

You’ve got to have a strategic growth plan. What is an ecommerce growth strategy? Understanding the Ecommerce Landscape Before diving into strategies, it’s crucial to understand the ecommerce landscape. Identify Your Niche One important ecommerce growth strategy is to find your niche.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Every business requires effective strategies and executions to grow. While some may know how to create effective strategies, their businesses still fail because of inappropriate leadership. They suppose business to solely involve strategies, planning, and implementation, while they sideline effective leadership.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Strategic plans become outdated the moment they’re created. Instead, create a one-page strategy map. Having run the internal strategy consulting group at HP, and then consulting to both startups and big companies like Disney, Visa, Colgate, Medtronic and others, I’ve created hundreds of strategic plans.

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Lead from Within

MAY 19, 2023

Great leaders understand that success is not a one-time event, but rather a result of consistent effort and planning. Instead, they jump from one year to the next without much thought to strategy or planning. As a leader, it’s important to set your team up for success by implementing proven strategies.

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Leading Blog

MAY 12, 2021

There is often confusion between scenario planning and forecasting, with the terms used interchangeably and inconsistently. Scenario planning is focused on the future and involves defining different stories behind different paths that will lead to that future.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 24, 2019

They fight, they bicker, fall out, and they are running a business in spite of rather than because of an appropriate change strategy. Most of all, there is no individual or collective accountability for their actions, and no plan which binds them together. Think of strategy as an academic exercise. The ending?

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 22, 2024

As business landscapes change and challenges evolve, your previous leadership strategies may become ineffective or even counterproductive. Strategies that did not consider diversity and inclusion will not suffice in today’s interconnected world. Flexibility in strategies, execution, and even vision can be beneficial.

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HR Digest

MARCH 6, 2024

We moved far too quickly from the “Great Resignation” to the era of mass layoffs and it seems that employee retention strategies were lost in the transition somewhere in between. Image: Pexels Employee Retention Strategies Cannot Be Skin-Deep Employees who don’t feel valued at work will not remain with a company for long.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 4, 2023

their third edition of, The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan. Ill-prepared, without a plan, and lacking proper onboarding, the land mines will get you. Strategies -- Broad choices around how the team will achieve its objectives. Plans -- The most important projects and initiatives that will bring each strategy to fruition.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2023

However, to ensure a successful EOS implementation, organizations need to have effective strategies in place. In this blog, we will explore 11 strategies that can help organizations achieve a successful EOS implementation and unlock their full potential.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Making Strategy Matter. Making strategy matter happens when leaders intentionally choose activities in alignment with their organization’s vision. Strategies are the bundling of chosen activities, and not to be confused with goals or objectives. Dave Coffaro is a strategic advisor, executive coach, and author.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

SWOT Analysis: A strategic planning tool that helps executives assess an organization's Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats to make informed decisions. resource) Strategic Planning Models: Frameworks such as the BCG Matrix, Ansoff Matrix, and Porter's Five Forces help executives formulate and execute strategic plans.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 30, 2023

If you want to start a new business for yourself, there are many different things you’ll need to consider, but you can’t – or shouldn’t – do any of those things until you have a solid and sensible business plan in place. It’s so tempting to just jump in and get started, but without a plan, you’ll have problems.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How do we best focus on strategy? Spend time on strategy each day. It is easy to get caught up with the business-as-usual (BAU) activities on a daily basis, but if you do too much of BAU, there will be no time left to think of a strong strategy. I always spend 30 mins of my day thinking about strategy.

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leaderCommunicator

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Strategic planning can be an intense process and it makes sense to celebrate when the plan is complete, but that doesn’t mean all the work is done. In fact, having a strategy is really just the first step. What you do with that strategy is what makes or breaks a business.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JULY 13, 2022

Avoid these six pitfalls as you create your organization’s strategic plan. As you look at your organization’s strategy and your current strategic planning process, it’s critical to understand there are some really large pitfalls out there that you can fall into. First, do you lack a clear direction?

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 25, 2022

A well-crafted pay-per-click strategy can help you achieve all of these objectives and more. So if you’re not already using pay-per-click advertising to drive traffic to your website, now is the time to start developing a strategy. The first step to creating a great PPC digital marketing strategy is to determine your budget.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

That’s because you plan how you’ll negotiate in isolation, yet you negotiate within a relationship—whether that relationship is professional or personal. Regardless of your initial intentions and whether the negotiation is going the way you planned, you can still influence the next steps and the direction you’d like the negotiation to take.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 14, 2018

In a hospital, lives are saved or lost long before patients’ treatment plans are written and implemented. Planning is Impersonal. Stefan Swanepoel advises leaders to “see the whole [chess] board” strategy-wise. When Plans Fail. It’s inaccurate to accuse Memorial Hospital of not having a disaster plan.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2024

Career management strategies are more important now than ever before as we step into a new year and hope to leave behind one that was full of job losses and instability. Stepping out of college, job aspirants are bombarded with internship opportunities that take a considerable amount of time to develop into job offers.

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