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Serve Your Community and Build Your Business
Part of strategic marketing is using non-traditional marketing vehicles, and finding ways to build your sphere of influence without having to send out a mailing or pass out your brochures. Community involvement is a valuable marketing opportunity that is often overlooked.

Meeting Facilitation for Administrative Professionals
It’s interesting that for decades administrative professionals were mostly involved in preparing their managers for meetings and being the behind-the-scenes pro. This decade is going to require assistants facilitate meetings ranging from 5 minutes or 2 hours. Maybe you have already had to host a short department meeting. Keeping people’s attention today is no easy task. However, it is essential that time not be wasted and everyone walks out of the meeting feeling like something was accomplished.

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Mind Mapping For Small Business Growth
Mind maps are great planning tools, whether you're planning a training program, a staff meeting or a Christmas party, or whether you're working alone or with others.

More On Strategic Thinking
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. I selected a few slides from my powerpoint and have listed the information below that I shared with them.
How To Use Change To Grow Your Association
Most Associations want to grow but they have limited resources to do it.. Here is an article to help with your next Association Planning meeting..

Ten Powerful Benefits From Using A Professional Outside Facilitator According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
When you plan an offsite meeting for strategic planning or other focused purposes, do you as the business owner or CEO/President run the meeting? Or do you have one of the management team members, like a vice president, run the meeting? Or do you use an “outsider” in the form of a professional certified facilitator? If you have not used an outside facilitator, you are probably missing some strategic benefits of doing that. Okay, so what are the powerful benefits of using an outside facilitator? Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach offers a list of ten (10) of the most powerful benefits from using a professional outside facilitator for your strategic planning and other focused purpose meetings.

Master Your Game: Designing an Effective Meeting Agenda
An agenda planning session should occur prior to every meeting. Just as an architect wouldn't dream of showing up at a construction site without a well-thought out design, facilitators need to create their own blueprints for each session. Meetings can be a waste of time and energy if no one is prepared and participants are forced to make decisions without adequate information. Last month, we discussed meeting management styles. This month, we discuss the effective agenda. Use The Agenda As A Strategic Tool

Top Five Tips For Running Productive & Effective Meetings
Have you ever been in a meeting where there is an agenda but it's not followed? Or, where you discuss the same issue repeatedly, with no resolution? If you answered yes, you are in the majority. Throughout my career, I have sat through hundreds of meetings that were unproductive and a waste of time. However, with proper planning and execution, you can host a well-run meeting. The following article provides some tips to develop and run effective meetings.
Accelerate The Quality of Every Meeting -The Easy Way
Courageous Participation Pays Off - For Everyone. Each team member accepts 100% responsibility for the result of each meeting. The success of the meeting depends on time spent - 50% prior planning, 15% conducting the meeting, and 35% participants' follow-up.
Running Effective & Actionable Meetings
When properly planned and executed, meetings can efficiently communicate ideas, solve problems, and generate action items. Unfortunately, many managers waste time by holding unnecessary or ineffective meetings. Read this summary to learn how to run an effective meeting, and use Demand Metric’s Meeting Agenda Template and Meeting Minutes Template to standardize your meeting process.
Writing Business Strategy Plans
Build a Strategic Planning Team- engage a cross-functional planning team to represent each department's needs. Hold a kick-off meeting to set strategic planning goals, schedule meeting times, and get organized for the planning process. Introduce the Balanced Scorecard Approach- review and distribute our Research Note "Map Strategy with Balanced Scorecard" to provide a framework to work from. Develop a Strategic Planning Charter- use our Project Charter template to document the goals and objectives for the planning process, and set plan completion timelines. Document Strategic Planning GAPS- evaluate your current strategic planning process and add GAPS to our GAP Analysis Tool under the Strategy tab. You will be using this GAP Analysis Tool through the entire strategic planning process, so consider distributing this tool to the wh
Networking 101: Are You Networking Smart?
I’ve always enjoyed and borrowed the phrase, “If you’re not planning, you’re planning to fail.” In regards to business, I like to say, “If you’re not networking smart, your networking is a waste.” Today, I’m sharing with you, free of charge, some of what we teach in our SMART NETWORKING Module. These are absolute networking MUSTS for anyone serious about meeting the right people...

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