What does Strategic Thinking Mean?
By AdminAJ 
Strategic Thinking is different than Strategic Planning!
For now, I will leave out what Strategic Planning means and focus on creating clarity about what Strategic Thinking means.
By AdminAJ Learning to Anticipate Your Clients Needs
By AdminAJ 
This month we continue our focus on creating a client-centric culture and the importance of intentionally listening to our clients.
Strategic Execution – Feedback Conversation
By AdminAJ 
This month we are focusing on Strategic Execution, and the conversations needed to support the success of any Strategic Plan. One of these conversations is feedback and, more specifically, what “breakdowns & struggles” have been seen that need to be addressed by having a feedback conversation.
Why it Matters
Feedback is a fundamental leadership practice for improvement! To improve organizational performance, we have to deal with the areas that have low workability. Could you imagine a football team not looking at the game last week to make adjustments for this week?
So, what stops leaders from receiving or giving feedback? The biggest reason is that we have learned from an early age that feedback is negative, demotivating and possibly hurtful. In most cases, the view of feedback is that it’s bad news, wrong or even career-ending – so let’s just avoid it altogether.
Leadership Strategy
As leaders, we have to be comfortable with giving constructive (useful, beneficial and purposeful) feedback and using it as a tool for improvement versus making others feel small, wrong or judged.
Remember, when you have leaders who are open to giving and receiving feedback, overall performance will improve!
Leadership Challenge
In the next few weeks, ask 4 people to give you constructive feedback on your leadership. By modelling to others that you are open to receiving feedback, it will impact others’ listening for receiving feedback in a positive way, and as an important tool for success!
Awesome Watch (9 min):
The Joy of getting Feedback by Joe Hirsh
Have an Awesome Month Leading with Impact!
Strategic Plan Execution
By AdminAJ 
This month we are focusing on Strategic Execution and what it takes to be successful at executing a strategic plan.
Why it Matters
Some recent findings show that 70% of well-formulated strategies fail due to poor execution!
Companies tend to spend more time planning and building the plan rather than implementing and executing the strategy and, more specifically, don’t plan and design the proper conversations needed for success.
Leadership Strategy
Take the time to plan your team’s communication and engagement around your strategy.
Four intentional conversations that your leaders need to be having to ensure the organization’s strategic plan is being executed per defined timelines:
- Clarity of specific actions and next steps
- Follow-up and accountability for these actions
- Acknowledgement of success in completing the actions
- Space to deal with breakdowns and struggles completing the actions
Leadership Challenge
In your “Strategic Think Time” this week, reflect on which of the four conversations are happening by your team and which ones need to be upgraded to support the execution of the organization’s Strategic Plan.
Awesome Watch (7 min)
The Strategy Implementation Challenge
Have an Awesome Month Leading with Impact!
