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AdviceWise By Per Lindskog We like the word transformation because it indicates that it’s not a oneshot deal, but rather a journey, which is very appropriate in this case. The worst type of Strategic Planning is the one undertaken annually by many companies, even large multinationals, which essentially entails finding last year’s strategic plan, making a few minor updates on numbers and goals, and 24 October 2006 This is Not Your Father’s Strategic Planning Instead, this is about our version of Strategic Planning, we call it Strategic Transformation. declaring it the new Strategic Plan. That plan is unlikely to have any positive impact on the growth of your business because it misses the key things that you want to achieve with a Strategic Plan: • A clear shared vision and mission. • A shared purpose. • Clear strategies with action plans, time lines and assigned responsibilities. The vision is like a destination. It should be a “stretch.” Answer the questions: • Where do you want to be in three or five years? • What do you want to be recognized as, or for? The clear shared vision is achieved through the visioning process. This needs to be a forward looking process. (No need to use “rearview mirrors” and peep at last year’s strategic plan!) You need to involve your executive team, and as many others as practical in your organization. If you do it well, you’ll have a shared vision that people in the organization can be excited about, and feel that they had input into. The mission and purpose also need to be shared and developed by your teams. Usually the mission becomes obvious when you have developed the vision. The mission will be the “road map” you use when you travel toward your vision. The purpose can be a bit trickier to develop. It is essentially the detailed answer to questions like: • Why are we here? • What is our reason for being? • What do we do for our customers? • How do we affect their lives? When starting to develop your strategies, you should think of specifically what you will achieve if you are successful in going toward (or implementing) your vision in the chosen time frame. Some people call them success indicators, others call them goals. When you have established your success indicators, start working on the specific strategies you will need in order to reach them. You need to be very clear here, and then assign responsibilities for the strategies. Typically, the responsibilities should be taken by members on the executive team, or senior management team. They become sponsors. Each will handpick people from across the organization and form action teams. The action teams start working on the strategies and develop time lines and specific goals and activities as appropriate. You will find that this approach generates an unprecedented degree of clarity and excitement and energy in the organization and the likelihood of success increases dramatically! — Per Lindskog is an executive coach, technical and performance consultant and partner with the Human Capital Group. With 25 years of successful international corporate and consulting experience, he has mastered the art of the “human side of business”. Per’s insight in these areas and his desire to share this knowledge with others is the key behind his successful coaching and consulting practice. He can be reached at plindskog@HCGnow.com or P: 888-HCG-9298. ❂ Photo: Rene Mansi / istockphoto
AdviceWise QQ. Even though I try to teach the meaning of each special occasion as it comes, each year the commercialism of each holiday seems to win over. Do you have any suggestions for making this holiday season more meaningful for children? A. Yes, there is a way to keep holiday sensitivity at the forefront of your child’s thinking. The Holidays Are Coming … By Sally Goldberg, Ph.D. October, November and December are the holiday months. Each week during the holiday season life gets busier and busier as family dinners, gift-giving and parties multiply in number. Day by day, excitement mounts as one holiday leads into the next. As you enjoy each holiday event this season, here are some suggestions to make the time you spend together with your child a rich and meaningful character building experience. Halloween Starting with H for Halloween, HONESTY comes to mind. Dress-up is the theme. It is the official opportunity to pretend to be someone else and the perfect time to talk about honesty, the quality of being yourself, and telling the truth. Because it is natural to act the part of a costume, explore with your child traits that go along with the choice of character. There may be admirable characteristics to emulate, but there also may be some that are not admirable and maybe even too distasteful to warrant keeping the costume choice. Remind your child how important it is to be honest and truthful. Thanksgiving November brings us Thanksgiving and a T for TRUSTWORTHINESS. As you celebrate Thanksgiving and a month of giving thanks, you can talk to your child often about their tasks and responsibilities. Remind your children of how thankful you are for their daily contributions to family life. Take the opportunity to explain what it means to be counted on and to inspire trust. December December brings two C’s for Christmas and Chanukah. They can be for CARE and CONCERN. Because there is a natural focus on gift giving for these holidays, it provides an excellent time to enrich your child’s thinking with thoughts of presents that are helpful and supportive to others. Both commercial items and nonmaterial gestures can be based on the deeper attributes of caring and concern. December has a K for us in the holiday of Kwanza, the African-American cultural festival for giving thanks for the first fruits of the harvest. That makes it just the right time to teach about KINDNESS. It provides the perfect reminder about not taking anything or anyone for granted. Just as much kind attention goes into producing a harvest, so many kind words and actions go into the making of great friendships. With the advent of this holiday season, I hope you will now have an easy way to make each holiday more meaningful to your children. With the pushes and pulls of commercialism all To advertise in FloridaWise <strong>Magazine</strong> call 561.649.0335 around, I hope that these letters of character will guide you and your children through festivities of holiday richness. • H for HONESTY • T for TRUSTWORTHINESS • C and C for CARE and CONCERN • K for KINDNESS I’m sending you my very best wishes for safe, happy and healthy holiday times together. — Sally Goldberg, Ph.D., professor of education and parenting expert, is now developing the Center for Successful Children in Scottsdale, AZ. She is the author of four popular parenting books and well-known for “Constructive Parenting.” For questions and comments call or email: P: 480-596-3821 ext. 103, sally.goldberg@jfcsarizona.com. ❂ FloridaWise <strong>Magazine</strong> 25
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