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Hub You - Strategic Planning in Five Easy Steps That Will Help You Create Your Strategic Plan in One Day!
Why are people changing jobs so quickly these days?Here are a few reasons why:They have a boring job therefore they feel they are not achieving anything.They have no leader to follow.They feel unappreciated.They work long hours and want a life.They are not paid what they are worth.The above reasons are not taken from any figures or facts stated in publications and general media. This is what the people themselves tell me. They are the words from the coal face, real people…managers, personal assistants, administrative staff, sales people; regular run-of-the mill people.It doesn't take much to retain valuable people and one of the easiest ways is to offer flexibility.Where is the Family Friendly Workplace?O
The Methods are your art that you apply to your business?
Strategy, IT Systems, Processes, Sales and Marketing tactics, Are all in the realm of Methods that your business needs to get right from the outset.
Having defined your mission, everything else will fall into place and no longer will you find creating a sales strategy or marketing one such a difficult arena.
Conclusion
Finally this is how it works. during each step and after you analysed every element, you will score yourself in terms of strengths and weaknesses against that of your competitors.
If your score equals or exceeds that of your competitors in all the five elements, then you are on a sure road to winning big time in your business.
If not, work on strengthening these elements before you start your challenge.
All be it, now after you created your strategic plan, it is time for you to learn strategy in order to maneuver your way to success and advan
Unfortunately, many marketing letters do not end with a compelling call to action. When you're developing your marketing plan you always want to think about what is next? What do we want our reader to do? That is why you need to create intriguing and compelling offers that motivate people to take that next step.Marketing letters are a very powerful tool. However, they are limited in terms of what they can realistically motivate a reader to do.For example it is very unlikely that a single letter will:Get a reader to call you up and hire you. Result in a flood of phone calls of interest. Immediately enable you to set up a large number of face-to-face appointments.It would be nice if a single letter to a never-contacted-before prospect galvanized them into hiring you. Nice, but unreali
It is so simple that people may prefer to spend so much money hiring consultants to give them the same strategic planning result, all be it, in more days and with elaborate language.
But such is life... Our overall strategic system consists of two major parts:-
1- What is your strategic position (strategic planning)
2- How to advance that position (strategy)One word of caution: Strategy is not Strategic Planning. Strategic planning is done in a controlled static environment. Strategy deals only with changes in the field of operation and how you strategize to reach your mission and goals.
In this article we will only deal with first major part of strategic planning or positioning. Five elements or steps must be considered, analysed and formulated in the creation of any strategic plan for whatever purpose you have in business or in life.
- The Mission
- The Climate
- The Ground
- The Leadership
- The Methods
First Step - Your Mission
The mission is what unify or create unity between the leader of the business, the people working in business and the customers.
It is not good enough to create a mission stating that you will be the best company in this sector or another. A mission is much more serious and practical than that.
President Kennedy during his visit to NASA bumped into a “cleaner” in one of the corridors... he asked him “What do you do here?” The man replied “Mr President... I am putting a man on the moon”. Well now this is an organization with a mission.
the leadership of the organization its workers and the country at large are simply united in one mission. If their mission was to create the fastest and biggest Shuttle for example or to be the slickest organization on the face of the earth, then it would not have had a mission. There are probably thousands of organizations that we never heard or will hear about that have such a mission.
We really only hear about organization whose mission is to put a “man on the Moon”.
Second Step - The Climate
The climate is about “What is changing” that is creating an opportunity for your business and the timing for suitability to all involved, employees and customers.
Climate is what generally gives a strategy an edge and where all opportunities flows from, created and sustained.
In an age of fast communication and the global village, climate has changed for example in the travel industry.
Cheaper and cheaper means of traveling needed to be created. Easy Jet and others rushed into exploiting the opportunity and created empires.
Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and the rest saw a similar climate change and jumped at the opportunity to create their own empires.
What is changing?; is your source of creating a business to succeed and flourish.
Are you watching closely?
Third Step - The Ground
The Ground is where you chose to compete.
There is difficult ground and an easy one; there is intersected ground and a dangerous one.
Chose your ground and where to compete wisely...
Chose the ground where your strength matches your competitors’ weakness.
Thus creating a competitive advantage that you will certainly need in order to win.
New grounds are being created every day.
The Internet and the World Wide Web didn’t exist 10 years ago.
Now Google in mere 7 years of operation is getting bigger and more profitable than HSBC Bank or Bank of America.
With a $160 billion capitalization of this giant of a company, we could all learn one or two things about planning and strategy.
Find new and easy ground to compete.
Find the ground where customers cannot afford a particular expensive service of one kind or another and offer them perhaps lower quality of the same service but affordable one.
Always remember that when the PC started to appear, any secretary at the time could type faster on the Typewriter than on the 8080 PC Chip.
Desktop photocopier, where no match to the large copiers when they were first introduced, but people liked the convenience of the desktop copier and a revolution was in the making.
This is called “disruptive innovation” that you need to study and understand well.
Just “Google” the term “disruptive innovation" and you will be on your way.
Fourth Step - The Leadership
Get your leadership principles right in order for your people and the customers to follow you:
- Caring For concern for the people and the customers
- Intelligence So that you see the opportunity and the changing climate
- Courage that you take actions to capitalize on opportunities
- Discipline Tough but fair to manage the business
- Trustworthiness So that your people and customers can trust you and follow you
The Methods are your art that you apply to your business?
Strategy, IT Systems, Processes, Sales and Marketing tactics, Are all in the realm of Methods that your business needs to get right from the outset.
Having defined your mission, everything else will fall into place and no longer will you find creating a sales strategy or marketing one such a difficult arena.
Conclusion
Finally this is how it works. during each step and after you analysed every element, you will score yourself in terms of strengths and weaknesses against that of your competitors.
If your score equals or exceeds that of your competitors in all the five elements, then you are on a sure road to winning big time in your business.
If not, work on strengthening these elements before you start your challenge.
All be it, now after you created your strategic plan, it is time for you to learn strategy in order to maneuver your way to success and advan
For professionals not involved in sales or front line service delivery it can sometimes feel like what you are doing is not adding value or your value is not recognised.So how can you start to build credibility and really demonstrate the value you deliver to your organisation?Get Clear On What You Are Here To DoIt might seem like a really obvious question but:• What are you here to do?• Are you only interested in your area of expertise, say Finance, HR or Law?• How interested are you in other areas of the business?• Do you want to train executives and managers on how to be more knowledgeable in your areas of expertise?• What impact do you want to make?Get Clear On The Benefits You DeliverOne of the key questions others outside of professional support
First Step - Your Mission
The mission is what unify or create unity between the leader of the business, the people working in business and the customers.
It is not good enough to create a mission stating that you will be the best company in this sector or another. A mission is much more serious and practical than that.
President Kennedy during his visit to NASA bumped into a “cleaner” in one of the corridors... he asked him “What do you do here?” The man replied “Mr President... I am putting a man on the moon”. Well now this is an organization with a mission.
the leadership of the organization its workers and the country at large are simply united in one mission. If their mission was to create the fastest and biggest Shuttle for example or to be the slickest organization on the face of the earth, then it would not have had a mission. There are probably thousands of organizations that we never heard or will hear about that have such a mission.
We really only hear about organization whose mission is to put a “man on the Moon”.
Second Step - The Climate
The climate is about “What is changing” that is creating an opportunity for your business and the timing for suitability to all involved, employees and customers.
Climate is what generally gives a strategy an edge and where all opportunities flows from, created and sustained.
In an age of fast communication and the global village, climate has changed for example in the travel industry.
Cheaper and cheaper means of traveling needed to be created. Easy Jet and others rushed into exploiting the opportunity and created empires.
Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and the rest saw a similar climate change and jumped at the opportunity to create their own empires.
What is changing?; is your source of creating a business to succeed and flourish.
Are you watching closely?
Third Step - The Ground
The Ground is where you chose to compete.
There is difficult ground and an easy one; there is intersected ground and a dangerous one.
Chose your ground and where to compete wisely...
Chose the ground where your strength matches your competitors’ weakness.
Thus creating a competitive advantage that you will certainly need in order to win.
New grounds are being created every day.
The Internet and the World Wide Web didn’t exist 10 years ago.
Now Google in mere 7 years of operation is getting bigger and more profitable than HSBC Bank or Bank of America.
With a $160 billion capitalization of this giant of a company, we could all learn one or two things about planning and strategy.
Find new and easy ground to compete.
Find the ground where customers cannot afford a particular expensive service of one kind or another and offer them perhaps lower quality of the same service but affordable one.
Always remember that when the PC started to appear, any secretary at the time could type faster on the Typewriter than on the 8080 PC Chip.
Desktop photocopier, where no match to the large copiers when they were first introduced, but people liked the convenience of the desktop copier and a revolution was in the making.
This is called “disruptive innovation” that you need to study and understand well.
Just “Google” the term “disruptive innovation" and you will be on your way.
Fourth Step - The Leadership
Get your leadership principles right in order for your people and the customers to follow you:
- Caring For concern for the people and the customers
- Intelligence So that you see the opportunity and the changing climate
- Courage that you take actions to capitalize on opportunities
- Discipline Tough but fair to manage the business
- Trustworthiness So that your people and customers can trust you and follow you
The Methods are your art that you apply to your business?
Strategy, IT Systems, Processes, Sales and Marketing tactics, Are all in the realm of Methods that your business needs to get right from the outset.
Having defined your mission, everything else will fall into place and no longer will you find creating a sales strategy or marketing one such a difficult arena.
Conclusion
Finally this is how it works. during each step and after you analysed every element, you will score yourself in terms of strengths and weaknesses against that of your competitors.
If your score equals or exceeds that of your competitors in all the five elements, then you are on a sure road to winning big time in your business.
If not, work on strengthening these elements before you start your challenge.
All be it, now after you created your strategic plan, it is time for you to learn strategy in order to maneuver your way to success and advan
You can have your own expert who has diverse experience of working with a broad range of companies and technologies apply his knowledge to your specific needs. Better yet, you can have this high level expertise without the staff overhead.Here’s how it works. An outside expert would perform the following “in-house” activities for you instead of you having a full time in-house telecommunications manager. Here’s what they would do:Translate business processes into communications practices.Determine telecommunications needs.Participate in Strategic Planning for Communications by keeping you updated on new telecommunications technologies, products, and services.Provide telecommunications leadership to the corporation, particularly in the areas of PB
Climate is what generally gives a strategy an edge and where all opportunities flows from, created and sustained.
In an age of fast communication and the global village, climate has changed for example in the travel industry.
Cheaper and cheaper means of traveling needed to be created. Easy Jet and others rushed into exploiting the opportunity and created empires.
Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and the rest saw a similar climate change and jumped at the opportunity to create their own empires.
What is changing?; is your source of creating a business to succeed and flourish.
Are you watching closely?
Third Step - The Ground
The Ground is where you chose to compete.
There is difficult ground and an easy one; there is intersected ground and a dangerous one.
Chose your ground and where to compete wisely...
Chose the ground where your strength matches your competitors’ weakness.
Thus creating a competitive advantage that you will certainly need in order to win.
New grounds are being created every day.
The Internet and the World Wide Web didn’t exist 10 years ago.
Now Google in mere 7 years of operation is getting bigger and more profitable than HSBC Bank or Bank of America.
With a $160 billion capitalization of this giant of a company, we could all learn one or two things about planning and strategy.
Find new and easy ground to compete.
Find the ground where customers cannot afford a particular expensive service of one kind or another and offer them perhaps lower quality of the same service but affordable one.
Always remember that when the PC started to appear, any secretary at the time could type faster on the Typewriter than on the 8080 PC Chip.
Desktop photocopier, where no match to the large copiers when they were first introduced, but people liked the convenience of the desktop copier and a revolution was in the making.
This is called “disruptive innovation” that you need to study and understand well.
Just “Google” the term “disruptive innovation" and you will be on your way.
Fourth Step - The Leadership
Get your leadership principles right in order for your people and the customers to follow you:
- Caring For concern for the people and the customers
- Intelligence So that you see the opportunity and the changing climate
- Courage that you take actions to capitalize on opportunities
- Discipline Tough but fair to manage the business
- Trustworthiness So that your people and customers can trust you and follow you
The Methods are your art that you apply to your business?
Strategy, IT Systems, Processes, Sales and Marketing tactics, Are all in the realm of Methods that your business needs to get right from the outset.
Having defined your mission, everything else will fall into place and no longer will you find creating a sales strategy or marketing one such a difficult arena.
Conclusion
Finally this is how it works. during each step and after you analysed every element, you will score yourself in terms of strengths and weaknesses against that of your competitors.
If your score equals or exceeds that of your competitors in all the five elements, then you are on a sure road to winning big time in your business.
If not, work on strengthening these elements before you start your challenge.
All be it, now after you created your strategic plan, it is time for you to learn strategy in order to maneuver your way to success and advan
Lost & Found for the 21st CenturyHere in the 21st century our lives have become more and more reliant on mobile items. As we go through our days, keeping a mental log of everything we have and where we have it becomes more and more difficult. It is inevitable that some things get lost. In fact as stated in a recent research “Around 62,000 mobile phones were left in London taxis during the last six months. That's an average three phones per taxi, according to a survey of licensed London cabbies by the Taxi Newspaper and Pointsec Mobile Technologies. Absent minded and drunken travellers also forgot 4,000 laptops and 5,000 PDA’s when exiting cabs”.A new service on the UK market now gives companies a great added incentive to their memberships and offers to gain, and retain new and existing customers. Want it
Now Google in mere 7 years of operation is getting bigger and more profitable than HSBC Bank or Bank of America.
With a $160 billion capitalization of this giant of a company, we could all learn one or two things about planning and strategy.
Find new and easy ground to compete.
Find the ground where customers cannot afford a particular expensive service of one kind or another and offer them perhaps lower quality of the same service but affordable one.
Always remember that when the PC started to appear, any secretary at the time could type faster on the Typewriter than on the 8080 PC Chip.
Desktop photocopier, where no match to the large copiers when they were first introduced, but people liked the convenience of the desktop copier and a revolution was in the making.
This is called “disruptive innovation” that you need to study and understand well.
Just “Google” the term “disruptive innovation" and you will be on your way.
Fourth Step - The Leadership
Get your leadership principles right in order for your people and the customers to follow you:
- Caring For concern for the people and the customers
- Intelligence So that you see the opportunity and the changing climate
- Courage that you take actions to capitalize on opportunities
- Discipline Tough but fair to manage the business
- Trustworthiness So that your people and customers can trust you and follow you
The Methods are your art that you apply to your business?
Strategy, IT Systems, Processes, Sales and Marketing tactics, Are all in the realm of Methods that your business needs to get right from the outset.
Having defined your mission, everything else will fall into place and no longer will you find creating a sales strategy or marketing one such a difficult arena.
Conclusion
Finally this is how it works. during each step and after you analysed every element, you will score yourself in terms of strengths and weaknesses against that of your competitors.
If your score equals or exceeds that of your competitors in all the five elements, then you are on a sure road to winning big time in your business.
If not, work on strengthening these elements before you start your challenge.
All be it, now after you created your strategic plan, it is time for you to learn strategy in order to maneuver your way to success and advan
For the entrepreneur who is opening a dollar store cost reduction is an ongoing challenge. It is a challenge that needs to be addressed in every aspect of the business. One of the most important areas of focus is payroll.Payroll cost reduction can be extremely difficult to achieve without an ongoing plan. If you are opening a dollar store that plan needs to focus on anticipated sales, with total payroll being a percentage of the projected sales. A monthly payroll target can be established against anticipated sales for the upcoming month. As weekly sales goals are achieved, small adjustments can be made to the next week’s payroll target.Two words of caution are warranted however. Don’t allow an extreme change in sales either up or down to drive radical changes to payroll your current staffing plans. Maintai
The Methods are your art that you apply to your business?
Strategy, IT Systems, Processes, Sales and Marketing tactics, Are all in the realm of Methods that your business needs to get right from the outset.
Having defined your mission, everything else will fall into place and no longer will you find creating a sales strategy or marketing one such a difficult arena.
Conclusion
Finally this is how it works. during each step and after you analysed every element, you will score yourself in terms of strengths and weaknesses against that of your competitors.
If your score equals or exceeds that of your competitors in all the five elements, then you are on a sure road to winning big time in your business.
If not, work on strengthening these elements before you start your challenge.
All be it, now after you created your strategic plan, it is time for you to learn strategy in order to maneuver your way to success and advance your current business position to new heights.
But this is another story all together . Let’s get your strategic planning right first.
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