Strategic Planning

An integral part of the plan is financial in nature, but the strategic business should address marketing, human resources, ICT and all other resources needed to integrate and fuse the organizational efforts to achieve targets. Experience has shown that at times, a business plan needs to be radically changed after one year, to conform with the ever-changing and volatile business environment. The business must ensure that the plan is written by someone or a team to whom it really matters, because of the enthusiasm and commitment that they put into it. On February 20th, I returned from St. Augustine, Florida, where I attended the 7th Annual Meeting of The First Tee (www.thefirsttee.org) and was a featured speaker on Strategic Thinking and Planning. It became clear from the reception and comments I received after my power point presentation, that I had accomplished my goal of sensitizing the attendees to the benefits of strategic thinking and planning and getting many of them to commit to starting the strategic planning process soon after they returned home.

Are you working in a company or law firm where leadership consultants help leaders develop an effective competency-based succession plan? Does your company or law firm provide executive coaching and leadership development for their valued leaders? One of the most powerful questions you can ask is "Do we have an effective succession planning process to assess and develop future leaders?" Emotionally intelligent and socially intelligent organizations provide executive coaching and leadership development for exceptional leaders at all levels of the organization.

Healthcare executive leadership has gone global. As a result, a growing number of opportunities are becoming available for individuals whose career planning efforts have prepared them for the extraordinary challenges and the long-term rewards that an international assignment offers. However, the expectations are high when it comes to making Healthcare executive leadership placements into a foreign market, and a prospective executive must be fully prepared to meet those challenges head-on.

The introduction of pragmatic, simple, and manageable business fundamentals can provide immediate results in profitability. Small contractors too often view planning as a word describing some complex, big-business process that has no relevance to their "gotta get it all done myself" world. In most cases, this view is valid. However, selective implementation of basic planning disciplines can be the difference between success and failure