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Highlighting Our January 2017 Sponsor: Bill Treasurer

Lead Change Blog

We are elated to have the Bill Treasurer as our Lead Change Group sponsor for January 2017! Benefiting from the concepts first introduced in Bill’s bestselling books, participants come away with stronger leadership skills, improved team performance, and more career backbone. Click here to learn more and register for the webinar.

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How SWOT Analysis Harms Leaders

Lead Change Blog

In the context of our increasingly disrupted, globalizing, and multicultural world, leaders greatly appreciate the security and comfort of clear-cut strategic plans for the future. Tragically, popular strategic business analyses are deeply flawed and give a false sense of comfort and security to business leaders. Cognitive Bias.

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A Fresh, Fast, and Fun Way to Focus Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

How you spend January can make the difference between a breakthrough and mediocre 2017. One of the most important questions you can ask your team (or yourself) is “What will it take to make 2017 the very best year of your career?” We now build that question into the strategic planning work we do with teams.

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3 Ways to Rock Your Role in the New Year

Let's Grow Leaders

Whenever anyone asks me the secret to my career success, my answer is simple. Want 2017 to be your best year ever? Ask, “What could I accomplish this year that would add real strategic value?” ” And then work with your team to establish a strategic plan for execution. “I worked hard.

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Are You Falling for the Myth of "Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail"?

Great Leadership By Dan

Such techniques will also help you implement your decisions well , and formulate truly effective long-term strategic plans. Solving the Planning Fallacy Specifically for the planning fallacy, my coaching and consulting clients have found three specific research-based techniques effective.

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Sales by Objectives (SBO): Sales Planning

Coaching Tip

The same is true of what people typically refer to as strategic planning (very narrow and well defined plans or "road maps" for achieving a company's mission over a 5/10 year period). That is why "strategic planning" is out of style and "vision" is in today. But is the sales planning job compete?

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5 Things We Learned About Creating a Successful Workplace Diversity Program

Harvard Business Review

As of 2017, nearly 75% of those in computing and mathematical fields were men and fewer than 15% were black or Hispanic. An optional full-day retreat in November 2017 attracted more than 10% of UCAR’s staff and approximately 85% of our senior leadership to discuss future diversity and inclusion efforts and strategic planning.