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NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. Strategic Planning

Mike Cardus

Having a solid strategic plan will allow your company and team to flourish and accomplish needed results. Contact Mike to schedule a strategic planning meeting that will deliver results and engaged staff that are part-of the plan. While preparing for a focus group meeting it came to me NOISE.

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Navigating the Path: What Does a Chief People Officer Really Do?

N2Growth Blog

Through strategic planning and execution, the CPO leads the charge in attracting, developing, and retaining top talent, creating a sustainable competitive advantage for the organization. These reviews are conducted through surveys, focus groups, or one-on-one interviews.

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business Review

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? Isolating the target customer has massive implications, including in other stakeholder groups. Alicia Llop/Getty Images.

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Ways to Boost Innovation and Accelerate Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

Innovation and organization learning often falls into the same trap as strategic planning, economic forecasting, and change management. Bring customers into your company offices and plants for visits, joint problem-solving and planning sessions, celebrations, focus groups, conferences, barbecues, presentations, and the like.

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How To Ask Remarkably Better Questions To Encourage Great Ideas

Great Leadership By Dan

Action-Focused We’ve sat through strategic planning sessions and focus groups where leaders asked questions and everyone in the room knew that the answers didn’t matter. When you ask questions that assume something needs to improve, you are more likely to get an honest response. What’s one policy driving everyone crazy?”

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X or Y: Are You Patronizing or Partnering?

The Practical Leader

I facilitated a strategic planning session for senior executives. One of the core strategic imperatives they felt vital to their success in the coming year was a “People Strategy.” These discussions expose underlying values about trust, partnering, and treating team members as adults or children.

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Talent Pool Development and Mentor Training Process

Mike Cardus

Working to ensure the organizations long-term success to flourish into its potential and 5–10 year strategic plan. Creating a mentoring program, that will work with the individuals that are selected as high potential to ensure their skilled-knowledge development for continued growth of the organization and the individual.

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