Mike Cardus

JANUARY 13, 2024

In today’s dynamic business environment, traditional models like SWOT analysis often fall short in addressing the complexities of organizational development. Needs: What does your team or company require to succeed? Exceptions: Where does your team already exhibit glimpses of the hopeful future, even if only a little bit?

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Analysis SWOT Short-term Strategic Planning 78

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 11, 2011

That's what SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) is all about. SWOT analysis is a powerful technique for understanding your strengths and weaknesses, and for looking at the opportunities and threats you face. BOTTOMLINE: The resulting SWOT statement is one of the primary tools used in Discipline I.

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SWOT Strategic Planning Analysis Planning 98

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 11, 2011

That's what SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) is all about. SWOT analysis is a powerful technique for understanding your strengths and weaknesses, and for looking at the opportunities and threats you face. BOTTOMLINE: The resulting SWOT statement is one of the primary tools used in Discipline I.

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SWOT Strategic Planning Analysis Planning 98

Lead from Within

JANUARY 9, 2024

A thorough SWOT analysis can guide you in identifying goals that are essential for your business and align with your strategic vision. By doing this, leaders can maintain team morale and momentum, creating a sense of achievement with each completed task. Make it a point to acknowledge achievements, no matter how small.

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Goal SWOT Morale Review 145

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Having a solid strategic plan will allow your company and team to flourish and accomplish needed results. Working with companies and developing strategic plans everyone seems to feel that the default method is a SWOT analysis strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. What is your team good at? NOISE analysis is that format.

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Strategic Planning SWOT Analysis Planning 158

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Consultants love a gap-closing program almost as much as they love a SWOT analysis. Autonomy: They are working to devolve critical decision-making to the individual and team level to cultivate an atmosphere of autonomy and self-directed work.

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Company Management Survey SWOT 348

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 12, 2021

When I developed the NOISE analysis is was to present a solution-focused alternative to SWOT. The company gave me a team of 4 people, and we met, talked, played, and figured out a way to make some changes to the NOISEanalysis language to be more individual.

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Analysis Skills SWOT Class 190

Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

SWOT analysis: this business analysis tool helps you to discover your business’ strengths, shortcomings, opportunities you can use, and circumstances that may pose threats to your business. It builds team members into powerful resources for business and helps them achieve strategic plans in the shortest time.

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Strategy Skills Strategic Planning Leadership 194

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Coaching individuals and teams working together to find the goal and what the solution will look like once that goal is achieved requires effort from the person and me. The effort is finding exceptions to the problem and determining how the team and person cooperate best. Team Building Activities and Application to work: Nail Balance.

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Guidelines Team Building Team Executive Coaching 139

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Here is the schedule it may change; 12/20/12 – Team Building & Leadership Photos. 12/27/12 – Team Building & Leadership activities (simulations). 12/28/12 – Team Building & Leadership Blog Articles. Favorite Team Building & Leadership Activities + Simulations 2012. Team Building Book. Pre-Animate.

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Team Building Team SWOT Leadership 136

Skip Prichard

JUNE 7, 2022

Good leaders can’t eliminate fear, either in themselves or their teams. It’s no use just telling your team, “Don’t be afraid! As a leader, you may have access to information that your team does not. As a leader, you may have access to information that your team does not. Say to your team members, “Tell me more.”

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SWOT Tactics Information Analysis 109

Strategy Driven

MARCH 1, 2021

For this, it is essential to carry out an internal and external analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats ( SWOT analysis ). Specific : clear and concrete, all members of the team must understand and be on the same page. Achievable : if we set ourselves an unreachable goal, the team may fall into frustration.

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Objective Marketing KPI SWOT 85

Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

In business school we teach SWOT analysis. Help your team get smarter. Know what your competitors are doing so you can outsmart them. There’s power in benchmarking, and many a company has met their demise by a sudden competitive surprise. This is part 5 of a 7 part series on outsmarting the competition. Get there early.

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SWOT Benchmarking Analysis Learning-by-Doing 180

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 22, 2018

Just five years after she was hired to be our receptionist, Macy became part of our strategic planning team. We used a combination of the corporate dashboard, SWOT analysis, employee surveys and customer surveys and created a strategic planning group. And we felt she was ready for a seat at the table.

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Strategic Planning Leadership SWOT Planning 214

Mike Cardus

JUNE 17, 2013

NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. Pre-Animate: Project Planning Team Building Activity. Trouble for Team Problems. How might your team benefit from finding what works and doing more of it? Distinctive:Working Well:100 Days Future Perfect. Strategic Planning. 5 Whys; Kind-of Useful for Technical Problems.

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Consultative Training SWOT Team Building 114

HR Digest

AUGUST 18, 2023

HR professionals should engage leadership teams in defining and embedding these organization capabilities. By conducting a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, HR professionals can gain valuable insights into areas where they need to enhance their preparedness.

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Organization Power Span of Control SWOT 96

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 7, 2022

An old business standby, the SWOT Analysis , can be adapted to help you develop a recruitment strategy that uses your strengths to harness opportunities while reducing your vulnerability to those circumstances that make recruiting so challenging. Individuals and businesses can use a SWOT analysis to aid in planning and goal setting.

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SWOT Analysis Brand Core Competence 52

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The ritual follows a predictable series of steps: review last year’s plan, conduct a SWOT or other type of analysis, and decide on objectives for the new year. Strategy as choice is uncomfortable – which is probably why discomfort is the key signal that you and your team are truly engaged in strategic planning.

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Strategy Strategic Planning SWOT Objective 167

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Contact Mike to make your goals a reality, making your team and leaders better. Great planning is done, you have your SWOT results, you created excellent QQT/R Goals for the next year with all of your subordinates. It means working with the team and each individual to create clear-lines of authority in how the work will get done.

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Goal SWOT Workshop Budgeting 103

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The concept of a lean business is something that has proven to be a very effective model for managing teams, in various industries like manufacturing and construction. What are the fundamental principles of implementing a leaner business, and how can we bring these about? Look For Constant Improvement. Adopting The Proper Culture.

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SWOT Long-term Goal Construction 58

Mike Cardus

APRIL 23, 2023

I made NOISE Analysis as a strategic-planning solution-focused (problem-solving) framework that can help individuals and teams with some sense-making to understand a situation and identify potential solutions. This can lead to a lack of clarity and direction, which is frustrating for individuals or teams trying to solve a problem.

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Analysis Guidelines Strategic Planning Planning 78

Six Disciplines

MARCH 16, 2011

” At a bare minumum, conduct a SWOT analysis. An individual plan for every employee, one that is reviewed between employee and team leaders weekly, gives everyone status updates and enough time for corrective action in the case that goals are at risk. Ask yourself, “Where are we now?” Set a clear strategic direction.

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Execution Strategy SWOT Tips 101

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2017

You need to know where your weak points are if you can ever hope to succeed, which is why you should conduct a SWOT analysis as soon as possible. SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and it can be vital to drafting a successful business plan. Improve Work Productivity. Save Money Wherever You Can.

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Strategy SWOT PR Analysis 51

Skip Prichard

JUNE 26, 2019

Business school often teaches us to conduct SWOT analyses and determine how we can capitalize on our strengths and build on our weaknesses. What are some of the main struggles teams face during an outsizing challenge? Perhaps the biggest team struggle arises when a team lacks commitment. Steve Coughran.

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Strategy SWOT Company Customer Loyalty 78

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

During a recent e-Roundtable , Max Carbone , President of TeamWorks , shared with Executive Roundtable members his top team building tips gleaned from his close to 20 years of working with senior executive teams. Passion: as important as keeping team members enthusiastic, team leads must be passionate about their mission.

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Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Much more than your typical SWOT analysis is needed here to get it right. In the majority of organizations we have observed, strategy management activity is limited to the involvement of the senior team and a few staff functions that facilitate the process.

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Process Agility Competitive Advantage Strategy 150

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

1) Analyze your SWOT. SWOT analysis. 2) Implement a leadership model that balances your four type of competences of the leadership team (spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical). 3) Be agile by delegating tasks and trusting your team. 7) Work in teams. Diagnosis (Internal Value + Context). Leadership.

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Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2019

By setting a concrete vision and conducting a SWOT analysis, you’ll be able to analyze your business’ opportunities, strengths, weaknesses and any potential threats. While identifying priorities and performing a SWOT analysis, you can also review your business’ past performance. Identify The Objective’s Priorities. Evaluate the Market.

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Objective SWOT Benchmarking Analysis 13

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2018

It walks you through getting started, marketing, product, competitive analysis, SWOT, and more, with a window below the input fields to show you the plan as you work away at it. Make sure it’s easily accessible and top-of-mind for you and your team. Reflect your goals in the day-to-day operations of your business.

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Planning Download Document Sample 57

Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2014

In this step you may need to conduct a SWOT analysis and an Environmental Scan look at both the internal and external factors you should be considering. By engaging your stakeholders, you give them a voice in influencing the strategies that will ultimately chosen by you and your leadership team. Step Four: Action plan the strategies!

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Planning Strategic Planning Tactics SWOT 63

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 17, 2014

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. Energy isn''t wasted in the politics of the team, organization or community because there aren''t different rules for everybody.

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Strategic Planning Planning Process SWOT 150

CO2

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

The purpose is to provide headlines or sound bites of critical information needed for those on the team to effectively do their jobs. Daily Check-in Meeting: Daily meetings can be as short as 10 minutes or as long as 30.

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Balanced Scorecard Review Strategic Planning Real Estate 79

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. This final chapter puts it all together.

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Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What does it mean to the organization when you are considering multiple choices to evaluate and each team member is rating each criteria on a 1 to 5 scale. So, had we not calibrated between each member of the team what our numeric scale represented we would not even have a glimmer of hope in understanding each decision makers point of view.

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Executive Coaching Brainstorming Tools Decisionmaking 79

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What does it mean to the organization when you are considering multiple choices to evaluate and each team member is rating each criteria on a 1 to 5 scale. So, had we not calibrated between each member of the team what our numeric scale represented we would not even have a glimmer of hope in understanding each decision makers point of view.

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Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Brainstorming Execution 68

ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The purpose of a SWOT analysis in the business planning process is to make sure you’ve identified all the possible strengths , weaknesses , opportunities and threats to your business. Some aspects of the SWOT analysis are designed to act upon. Extremely savvy job seekers will do their own SWOT analysis on the company before joining.

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SWOT Analysis Succession Short-term 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The world is replete with SWOT mechanisms for evaluating a prospective new product offering, as well as opportunity assessment templates for evaluating a project against overall business goals, customer impact, strategic potential, and competitive urgency. You and Your Team Series. Photo by Cris Dinoto. Staying Focused. Srini Pillay.

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Real Estate Audience SWOT Metrics 8