Coaching Tip

JANUARY 3, 2017

Many of you may consider sales planning as something that is forced on you from headquarters as "Filling out forms to satisfy the home office".and In many organizations, typically what happens is this.every year you are asked for your sales plan for the coming year by a certain date. But is the sales planning job compete?

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The Practical Leader

JULY 21, 2021

I recently had a call with a CEO about facilitating a strategic planning retreat this fall with 15 of their top leaders. Looking at the fairly typical approach they’ve used before, four common strategic planning problems immediately popped out: The agenda was loaded with about 17 reviews and updates. Nap by PowerPoint.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 20, 2013

Why are game-inspired tactics becoming popular to engage employees in employees in areas such as collaboration, wellness, and retirement planning? The post GC18: Game-Inspired Tactics to Engage Employees appeared first on Engaging Leader. What are examples of complete solutions, small steps, and low-tech approaches?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 20, 2014

Are you familiar with the PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycle? Do you know how to implement it well within your company?A A really big key between people that use PDSA successfully and those who don’t is that the ones that do it successfully turn the cycle quickly.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 13, 2016

As a strategy consultant, I have had the opportunity to review a lot of strategic plans over the years. It’s been truly amazing to discover just how many major organizations develop strategic plans that contain little more than a whole lot of budget estimates and revenue projections. Strategic Planning 2.0

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 10, 2023

Please let us know what additional topics would be of most interest as we plan our editorial calendar for the back half of the year. If your boss doesn’t have one planned for you, why not ask for one? Balancing Strategy and Tactics 2. If your company doesn’t require mid-year reviews, do them anyway.

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Niagara Institute

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Strategy and tactics. Or taking actions without a plan of what you’re trying to achieve is just busywork. Pen and paper. Car and driver. What do all these have in common? One without the other is rendered almost useless. Having a great strategy without executing it is just a dream.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Help your team differentiate what they know from what they don’t, and empower them to focus on tactical, practical next steps. After talking through each of these questions, you can then focus the conversation on meaningful next steps to take action and build contingency plans.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

A detailed and personalized action plan is then developed to guide individuals on their leadership journey. The process is flexible yet structured; it comprises broad phases such as discovery, solution generation, action plan development, implementation, and reassessment.

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Engaging Leader

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The kryptonite that threatens to kill the dreams of every entrepreneur is strategic planning. Many people have no plan and try shooting from the hip, so effort and resources are wasted or unfocused. Others get bogged down in an overly-detailed planning […]. The antidote for this kryptonite is simple strategic planning.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Set time aside every day (or at least every week) to step away from the chaos and let yourself reflect and plan. If you want more time for big-picture-thinking and the “mental space” to envision vastly different solutions, follow these steps: 1. Make an Unbreakable Appointment with Yourself.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 5, 2024

This article explores four tactical approaches that can empower organizations to craft compelling transformation messages. The communication strategy should encompass various channels and tactics, including town hall meetings, internal newsletters, social media platforms, and one-on-one interactions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

Translate your leadership vision to tactical, measurable behaviors. When I came back from maternity leave, the first thing I did was to build a clear development plan for each member of my team with a clear focus on critical thinking. Build a highly integrated communication plan. Build an integrated communication plan.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

From Sun Tzu to Julius Caesar, the ancient Israelites to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, there’s a bold and highly effective tactic seen throughout history—when leaders want to motivate their troops for success, they destroy all opportunities for retreat, and go all-in on the mission. You can, too.

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HR Digest

MARCH 28, 2022

When it comes to compensation plans for sales professionals, there are certain challenges that you must overcome. Building a perfect sales compensation plan is not easy and requires a lot of effort from sales personnel. What are the various compensation plans? . What is the importance of compensation plans? Incentives .

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 5, 2024

This article explores four tactical approaches that can empower organizations to craft compelling transformation messages. The communication strategy should encompass various channels and tactics, including town hall meetings, internal newsletters, social media platforms, and one-on-one interactions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 28, 2023

The first step is to begin a deeper leadership journey and address four core factors – Tactics, Influence, Mindset, and Environment (T.I.M.E.). In this episode, Richard Medcalf gives you a roadmap to becoming a more strategic leader and offers a complete set of strategies to help you elevate your focus.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A maintenance plan is a well-thought-out and researched schedule for ensuring your warehouse’s safe and efficient operation. Implement your plan. Now that the maintenance plan has been implemented, it’s time to look at some statistics. What do you want to achieve? Review the outcome. Continuous improvement.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 11, 2011

In contrast, tactics (the " how we're going to do what we're supposed to do" - or the execution element) is typically thought of as the grunt work, relegated to and performed by the rest of the organization. BOTTOMLINE: Building an organization that can develop strategy, plan (formulating tactics) and execute is not easy.

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leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Of course, even the most tried-and-true plan can still hit roadblocks along the way, which is why as part of the planning process, we make a point to identify strategies for overcoming employee resistance and tactics for unifying company cultures well beyond the initial announcement of these transformative events.

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David A Fields

OCTOBER 1, 2019

If you develop an annual plan for your consulting firm, there’s a decent chance you sit down with your senior team and/or advisors for a day or two to hammer out your objectives, strategies and tactics. (If If you don’t engage in any strategic planning for your consulting firm then, as the old saying goes, “When … Continued.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 5, 2023

I was asked to facilitate an annual strategic planning retreat with a senior leadership team. Hmm…oh, oh… Looking at the typical approach they’ve used before, four common strategic planning problems immediately popped out: The agenda was loaded with about 17 project/operational presentations/reviews and updates.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The natural tendency for many leaders when facing a communication issue is to skip critical planning steps and jump right into tactics. The post 003: 5 Steps to Creating a Communication Plan appeared first on Engaging Leader. ©iStockphoto.com/kupicoo. Members (audience/stakeholder). Manager/Champion support.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 16, 2015

Guest post from Patrick Thean : In business, a leader’s ability to strategically plan for the company’s future is of the highest importance. Your company will not be successful if you don’t have the strategies and execution plans in place to reach your objectives. Great plans stem from great planning sessions.

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Engaging Leader

JULY 23, 2013

Gamification is the use of game-inspired tactics to engage people. The post Using the Story Pyramid to Plan Gamification Elements [video] appeared first on Engaging Leader. If you decide to use gamification to engage people, you need to make some thoughtful decisions about the elements you will design into the gamified application.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Translate your leadership vision to tactical, measurable behaviors. Build a highly integrated communication plan. I’ve learned that to scale your leadership, one of the best approaches is to ensure that every manager on the team has a closely aligned and integrated 5×5 communication plan.

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Here are examples from 2 recent client meetings: Prioritize the top tactics for a key strategy : Purpose : Decide the top 2 tactics to be executed by 7/1/2021 for Strategy 1; Process : Take our current list of the top 6 tactics and prioritize those to the top 2 that have to be done immediately and why; Outcome : The plan for the 2 top tactics including (..)

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Lead from Within

MARCH 16, 2023

Strategic and tactical. Leaders must be able to think strategically and plan for the long term, but they must also be able to execute on the details and handle the tactical aspects of their job. Individual and team.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Some of my favorite takeaways from the book include: Strategic plans should clearly describe where the business is today, where it’s going, and how it’s going to get there.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Tactical Business Plans : I like to keep things to the short strokes. I work off rolling 90 day tactical business plans based upon achieving objectives that move me closer to the fulfillment of my vision. The tasks are developed based upon achieving the 90 plan which is based upon fulfilling the overarching vision.

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Engaging Leader

JULY 16, 2020

The natural tendency, when facing a communication issue, is to skip critical planning steps and jump right into tactics. Think about these five components (which we call the 5M Framework) as you plan your communication: Mission: What […].

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 9, 2016

“Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.” Planning for greatness is very important, but just like the surfer sitting in the lineup at some point you have to actually drop in and ride the waves. We’d been planning for months and now it was “go” time.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 14, 2023

And then, most importantly, have the team identify practical, tactical habits, behaviors, or initiatives they could do to leverage the driving forces and overcome the restraining forces. “How do we design this event so that people walk out the door and say, “NOW THAT was a fantastic use of our time!

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Tactical Business Plans : I like to keep things to the short strokes. I work off rolling 90 day tactical business plans based upon achieving objectives that move me closer to the fulfillment of my vision. The tasks are developed based upon achieving the 90 plan which is based upon fulfilling the overarching vision.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 25, 2021

While part 1 focused on the 5M framework as a comprehensive planning tool for communication, Simple Visual Story (SVS) is a great model for executing the components of the […]. SVS increases the effectiveness of videos, graphics, and other types of communication and education tactics to inspire trust and drive action.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Whether an entrepreneur requires guidance in strategic planning, communication skills, decision-making, or resilience building, it is the responsibility of the coach to identify these areas and design a comprehensive coaching plan that addresses their specific needs.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The first tactic for a hassle-free business expansion is to do plenty of research before you go ahead. What that means is you need to invest in market research before you plan to expand. Well, before you start to enact your plans. However, much of the hassle can be avoided if you manage the expansion right. Do your research.

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