All tagged Implementing the planning process
When it comes to strategy and growth in an organization, of any size, the ability to create compelling, well thought-out plan is not the issue. Those are easy enough to pull together.
No, the key is always people. Who's involved, how committed are they and how we bring them along. How we do this is the focus of today's episode.
This month's podcast closes out the year with my thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic that's absorbed all of us this year. I'll share my perspectives on how I've assessed this impact and how I interpret its impact going forward.
Today's podcast discusses how we need to adjust our mindset when we think about the idea of progress. It's important to be optimistic, but that also means recognizing that the path forward will have stumbles and setbacks as well.
I was speaking with a client the other day about a specific change initiative they were about to implement.
The client’s team had been working off of a planning process that was individualized and not institutionalized, and hence, had different leaders at the same level working at different levels of depth and rigor, from the amount of data they utilized during that process to the quality of the analysis and output.
Not an entirely uncommon phenomenon in many big companies and one that had evolved over the years as a result of organic and inorganic growth. All the same, this was now leading to missed opportunities and a lack of true strategic alignment.
