Strategic Planning - Six Strategic Success Drivers

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Just returned from a Strategic Planning session in Cleveland (The Mistake by the Lake). The weather was actually pretty good. The session reminded me of the key drivers to successful planning and i thought i would share them with you.

The Six Strategic Success Drivers


How much value can you place on having all six drivers of success operating in an automatic mode? What is it worth to have your team and your company operate at a high energy level even when you are not there?

For that to happen, you need these success drivers:

The full buy-in of your Leadership Team toward a mutually-agreed vision. Make sure your company vision (End Game) is clear enough to inspire a great strategy, otherwise you wont create ownership

Their committed passion to execute a laser-focused strategic planning process

Crystal clear, time-bound goals with assigned ownership and specific deadlines for completion of critical action steps, with desired results identified.

An ownership supported system of accountability – including team-created and team-enforced key performance indicators – that ensures plan implementation.

A roll out process that generates excitement and buy-in throughout the entire organization. Don’t keep your strategy a secret from your employees. They need to have confidence there is a plan and know what their role is.

Make your strategy the driver of all company training so employees can make better decisions, feel more in charge, and know exactly what success looks like.

“Excitement breeds excitement – Success breeds success”

Get your employees excited about the strategic end game vision.

How much would you invest to have all that working for you...all day, every day?
Strategic planning is a management tool. It is used to help an organization clarify its future direction – to focus its energy, and to help members of the organization work toward the same goals. The planning process adjusts the organization’s direction in response to a changing environment. Strategic planning is a disciplined effort to support fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what it does and why it does it, with a focus on where it wants to go and how it is going to get there.

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