Significant Strategic Planning

If you can identify with the challenges of being a leader and want to leave a legacy, a great place to begin the journey is with “Significant Strategic Planning.”

Today, less than 15% of companies do strategic planning. What is amazing is that most companies do business plans each year and equate this exercise with strategic planning. They do the “typical two-day retreat and the conversations typically bring out the following questions: “What do we need to do to stop the ABC competitor from eating our lunch?” “We need to get sales up and get some people who can sell.” “Our new

IT implementation isn’t going so well, when the heck is this going to be resolved?” “What do you think we might do in gross margin this year if our sales people don’t give away the store?” “Let’s set the revenue goal and get the quotas and budgets out.”

I have been doing strategic planning for companies for the past 15 years in my consulting practice and there are two key rules that are foundational for great success.

Rule #1: Know your talent and others and learn to harness your incredible God given gifts.

Rule #2: Do “Significant Strategic Planning”.