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What are we going to be covering in this 6th and final podcast in our Action Planning Course?
In this final episode of our Strategy podcast series, we extend our conversation to examine a 4th criterion that should be used to evaluate all of the opportunities available to build your business:
What do YOU want to do.
Listen to this final episode about what YOU want to do as the final criterion needed to evaluate the opportunities to build your business and install a powerful Action Planning process in your company.
Our FREE Action Planning Course includes six podcasts … about 5 minutes long each … organized to give you an easily understandable but powerful introduction to Action Planning. The term, Action Planning, emphasizes how important it is to focus on the implementation as well as the creation of any strategy if you want it to be effective. In just less than one hour, you will understand these essential concepts so you can immediately put them to work in your business.
What do YOU want to do? There’s no criterion more important to evaluating how you’re going to build your business.
In this podcast, we explain why what YOU want to do is a critical component of this process.
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What are we going to be covering in this 5th podcast in our Action Planning Course?
We’ve all been here, haven’t we? We’ve got a great idea to expand our business, we dive in head first so certain that it will work … only to find that we’ve squandered valuable resources that we wish we had to apply to an even better idea we didn’t think of the first time.
This happens to virtually every growing business because there are always more opportunities available than resources to support them.
That’s why even a little planning can go a long way … why we need to kill all the strategy myths … and simply focus on prioritizing the opportunities that make the most sense to build our business.
How do we do this? By applying consistent criteria to each of the opportunities before us.
What about external factors … industry trends, markets, technological change …? Our FREE Action Planning Course includes six podcasts … about 5 minutes long each … organized to give you an easily understandable but powerful introduction to Action Planning. The term, Action Planning, emphasizes how important it is to focus on the implementation as well as the creation of any strategy if you want it to be effective. In just less than one hour, you will understand these essential concepts so you can immediately put them to work in your business.
In our previous podcasts, we discussed the first two criteria that you need to evaluate: your company’s core competencies and the competitive landscape.
The 3rd factor needs to be the broader external forces that affect our businesses … industry trends, markets, demographics, technology changes and other external factors.
What do those cards look like?
How do we select the right opportunities and build our strategy to deploy our limited resources in the best possible way?
Are you spending quality time to understand industry trends? Do you know what’s happening in your markets?
If not, why not?
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What are we going to be covering in this 4th podcast in our Action Planning Course?
A critical part of planning requires you to carefully examine all of the opportunities available to help you build your business … and to apply consistent criteria so that you can compare each of them equally.
In our previous podcast, we discussed the first criterion: your core competencies.
We now turn our attention to the competitive landscape and what you need to do to get beneath the surface and obtain the competitive intelligence necessary to inform your decisions about the strategic opportunities you should pursue.
Our FREE Action Planning Course includes six podcasts … about 5 minutes long each … organized to give you an easily understandable but powerful introduction to Action Planning. The term, Action Planning, emphasizes how important it is to focus on the implementation as well as the creation of any strategy if you want it to be effective. In just less than one hour, you will understand these essential concepts so you can immediately put them to work in your business.
Remember in building your business … think big, take action and make sure you’re integrating these concepts of Strategy, Finance & Leadership into your everyday decision making.
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What are we going to be covering in this 3rd podcast in our Action Planning Course?
A critical part of planning requires you to carefully examine all of the opportunities available to help you build your business … and to apply consistent criteria so that you can compare them equally.
In this podcast, we describe the first criterion: What are your core competencies and how do they inform your decisions about the handful of opportunities you should really go after.
Our FREE Action Planning Course includes six podcasts … about 5 minutes long each … organized to give you an easily understandable but powerful introduction to Action Planning. The term, Action Planning, emphasizes how important it is to focus on the implementation as well as the creation of any strategy if you want it to be effective. In just less than one hour, you will understand these essential concepts so you can immediately put them to work in your business.
[pullquote]”In planning for battle, I’ve found that plans are useless … but planning is indispensable.” Dwight Eisenhower[/pullquote]
Remember in building your business … think big, take action and make sure you’re integrating these concepts of Strategy, Finance & Leadership into your everyday decision making.
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What are we going to be covering in this 2nd podcast in our Action Planning Course?
First, we’re going to pull up to the dumpster to drop off the the excuses everyone uses for the lack of planning.
We’ll see why plans in your head are only ideas and why unless they’re written down, they’re pretty much worthless.
Our FREE Action Planning Course includes six podcasts … about 5 minutes long each … organized to give you an easily understandable but powerful introduction to Action Planning. The term, Action Planning, emphasizes how important it is to focus on the implementation as well as the creation of any strategy if you want it to be effective. In just less than one hour, you will understand these essential concepts so you can immediately put them to work in your business.
[pullquote]“The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong questions.” ~Peter Drucker[/pullquote]
Why the terminology of “strategic planning” throws everyone off course … and why you don’t need a Harvard MBA or the GE auditorium to conduct a powerful and meaningful planning session.
So, take an hour with a blank sheet of paper to jumpstart the process and you’ll be amazed at the clarity you’ll achieve.
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What are we going to be covering in this 1st podcast in our Action Planning Course?
These days, we’re all busier today than a woodchuck chucking wood … so it’s refreshing when we can listen for a few minutes on the way to work to grab a little inspiration to jumpstart our day.
That’s why we’ve created a podcast series to help middle market companies achieve “excellence at the intersection of strategy, finance and leadership“. Our Strategy podcast series is organized to give you short but powerful bursts … about 5 minutes each … of practical strategies that you can immediately put to work.
The introductory podcast explains this series and what we’re trying to do to help middle market business executives become better leaders and managers. We’ll cover a broad range of issues, from leadership skills and techniques … to corporate governance, communication, innovation, planning, pricing, the works.
Our FREE Action Planning Course includes six podcasts … about 5 minutes long each … organized to give you an easily understandable but powerful introduction to Action Planning. The term, Action Planning, emphasizes how important it is to focus on the implementation as well as the creation of any strategy if you want it to be effective. In just less than one hour, you will understand these essential concepts so you can immediately put them to work in your business.
As always, I welcome your feedback. Let us know if this series is helpful and what more you’d like to hear. Don’t hesitate to offer your comments. We welcome a vigorous dialogue … so, with a wink and a term borrowed from my talk radio days … “we fully respect your right to be dead wrong”. So, fire away and let’s keep the conversation going!
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