Strategic planning
Here it is again in December and more than here in Oregon, it is creeping towards the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year. This time of year offers a perfect opportunity to go into the shady corners of your company to verify the year and see what needs to die, what one needs to live and what new sources of energy must come next year for life.
For those of you who are in the northern hemisphere, as I live, is a perfect time to set up your bike with them in the wild.
This may sound a bit strange, but the fact is that if you look in your garden now, it's exactly what happened out there. I like my dahlia stalks yesterday, and when I dug into the darkness of the land, I noticed that some of the bulbs have multiplied healthy, while others have died and withered.
I do not want to replant the dying light, as they are ready to turn it into mulch. They have lived their life purpose, so to speak. It is much more productive in the spring, the fresh plants and even some new ones in the mix. Business is like. Change and growth happens.
Ideally, my 5 steps to twice a year on solstices, which provides a perfect base for your business planning.
If you live in the southern hemisphere, you will be near the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. For you it is not going into the darkness, because you sunshine until late into the night, but they are still at the end of 2009, there is the possibility to concentrate to do strategic planning for 2010. December, no matter where you live, is an excellent time to assess, evaluate and decisions for next year.
Here's a 5-part process that you can do to start your new year for the strategic planning session. This process can make on your own, but it is even more power, so that it is not with your team, your mentor or mastermind group. It always feels good to share with others, and act only to share and feel with a witness can give. If you get shares, you can also respond to questions and feedback that can improve your focus.
Use a clean paper for each question and make a mind-mapping, carried down everything you can imagine. From there you can drag the strongest points.
1. What were your accomplishments for the year 2009? What are you proud of that achievement and why?
2nd What obstacles you must overcome in order to achieve these goals? Since the barriers have been slow to you?
3rd How have you managed to overcome them? What do you have in this process and how this knowledge can help you next year?
4th Everyone in your organization that you are in a great effort, but enough to make payments? What is dying, or if you need to drop and then?
5. What is your most important new objectives to be achieved next year? Does it feel exciting and challenging and how it will help your company as a whole? What kind of support you need to get started?
This process is simply more questions and other ideas to help you complete the planning meetings. Successful entrepreneurs take the time to work on their business. I hope this is a good and strengthening process. Let me know!
