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Here is our final strategic planning technique:
Review your plan and identify a “theme” for the year: Once your plan is set, you will most likely see a theme emerging. Themes are important reminders for how and where to focus through the year. For example: “Getting ready to sell,” “People first,” “Maintaining market share,” or “Breaking [...]

Here is part three of our strategic planning techniques series:
Strategically develop each category with measurable goals: When the main categories have been identified and a few goals have been listed under each, begin adding additional goals. Think about what you want for the coming year and by when you wish to accomplish each goal. For [...]

Following from our last post, here is part two of our strategic planning techniques to increase your energy and rekindle your passion.

Begin organizing your thoughts and ideas: Once you have collected your ideas, begin looking for common themes or patterns.  Group them into categories such as: financial, personnel, product development, personal development, operational, etc.

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Our next series of tips relates to strategic planning techniques. The concept of “strategic planning” is rarely associated with increased energy and rekindled passion.  But that is often because of how we do strategic planning rather than the planning itself.  We lock ourselves and our management teams into stuffy conference rooms expecting to somehow magically [...]