I came across someone this week who had a full strategic planning framework worked out for his company: nice financial goals, sales goals, and a recruiting strategy worked out for the next 5 years. Amazing how some people get involved putting a 5 year plan together when they have no idea what the sales for March will be...
So we got talking about how to translate that 5 year strategic planning approach (started in 2008; 2009 goal missed by a landslide) into an action plan.
I think the most common mistake people make in this process is lack of focus.
Each team member has a set of daily tasks: running their departments, following up on the standard parameters they have followed up on for years, making the organization run from day to day.
And then there is a strategic plan. To be added to the "to do" list, whenever they get to it. Probably a week or so before the next follow-up meeting.
That is a recipe for failure of the strategic planning implementation.
If the daily tasks and the strategic goals are not integrated into one strategic planning framework, people remain confused about priorities.
And confused priorities allow people to work very hard on the wrong goals.
Smart managers create confident organizations where resources are focused on achieving goals. Where these goals are shared and understood by all, so that coherent teams become a natural consequence. Where people get a sense of achievement from being on a winning team, and double up on their efforts to get you to that ultimate goal. And where managing people becomes the key to getting results.
We can help you make that happen!
So we got talking about how to translate that 5 year strategic planning approach (started in 2008; 2009 goal missed by a landslide) into an action plan.
I think the most common mistake people make in this process is lack of focus.
Each team member has a set of daily tasks: running their departments, following up on the standard parameters they have followed up on for years, making the organization run from day to day.
And then there is a strategic plan. To be added to the "to do" list, whenever they get to it. Probably a week or so before the next follow-up meeting.
That is a recipe for failure of the strategic planning implementation.
If the daily tasks and the strategic goals are not integrated into one strategic planning framework, people remain confused about priorities.
And confused priorities allow people to work very hard on the wrong goals.
Smart managers create confident organizations where resources are focused on achieving goals. Where these goals are shared and understood by all, so that coherent teams become a natural consequence. Where people get a sense of achievement from being on a winning team, and double up on their efforts to get you to that ultimate goal. And where managing people becomes the key to getting results.
We can help you make that happen!
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