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Ditch the New Year's Resolutions!
Lots of people will have made New Year's Resolutions for 2010. If so, I wonder how many are the same as ones they made at the beginning of 2009? Often we decide on 1st January that we are going to do things differently this year. But, come February we can find that we've slipped back into our old way of doing things.So what can we do differently to get different results?

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How to Increase Your Team\'s Performance and Profitability Through Effective Meetings
Recently I facilitated a strategic planning day with one of my clients. During the course of the day we reviewed the progress they had made since the last major planning day we had the year before. As we were reflecting on their achievements before planning the future, one of the partners made the comment on how crucial their weekly team meetings were.

Seven Benefits Of Strategic Thinking And Planning For A New Year According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
As another new calendar or fiscal year begins, it is wise to take a good hard look ahead at where your business is heading in light of the business environment of the new year. It is also wise to develop new goals for the upcoming year in this new business environment. The way to take this proactive and positive step in your business is to use strategic thinking and planning. Looking at the start of a new year, we can acknowledge some uncertainty in the business environment and perhaps in our personal lives. Therefore, it is the perfect time to engage in strategic thinking and planning to benefit from the opportunities that are always present, especially during uncertainty. Here are seven (7) benefits of using strategic thinking and planning for a new year, according to your strategic thinking business coach.

Career Tune-up: Maintaining your Professional Path
As 2008 begins, it’s the perfect opportunity for a Career Tune-up. The New Year provides a natural time to evaluate how your career progressed over the past year and to determine what you want for the year ahead. Investing time in assessment and planning will enable you to have a greater impact on your professional development. The Past Year When you review your career milestones of the past year, you’ll want to take a candid look at what worked and what didn’t work for you, your clients and your organization. Defining this will help you to make decisions about next year.
The Power of Productive Team Meetings
Recently I facilitated a strategic planning day for a small accounting practice. During the course of the day we reviewed the progress they had made since the last major planning day we had the year before. As we were reflecting on their achievements before planning the future, one of the partners made the comment on how crucial their weekly team meetings were.

Are You Limiting Your Income In 2010?
It is planning time again! This time of year many of us are looking back at the past year and deciding what we are going to do for the next year. It is a time of reflection as well as a time to get excited about what the future holds. I spend a lot of my time in December helping clients get strategic plans for the coming year in place. Each time I work with a new client, I am surprised at the way many of them have been to taught to plan and how those teachings keep them earning far less than they are capable. Here is one of mytop suggestions for planning for 2010.
New Marketing Plan Resolutions!
This isn't an academic look at planning for your business, more a look at the way that we do it at MarketingPlanWiz that will, hopefully, give you some ideas for your own business. At the beginning of a new year we traditionally make personal "resolutions", but rarely think about these for our businesses. Now, the beginning of a new year shouldn't be the only time that we plan for our business; at any time planning can give us the opportunity to stand back and look at what we have achieved and changed in the past year and to look forward to what we would like, and need, to achieve and change in the coming year. Why not do this with your business?
Event Planning Jobs: Where Do You Find Clients?
Event planning is a popular business to start. There are a variety of events you can plan, and you can have a full calendar of work year-round. Planning these festive and social activities can be fun and rewarding - but finding clients may be the most challenging part of event planning jobs...
PLANNING FOR SUCCESS – PART 1 – PURPOSE
How was this year for you and your business? That’s the question that every business owner is or should be asking themselves at this time of year. Unfortunately a very high percentage of business owners are afraid of the answer so the questions are avoided. Now is the time that you must, however face the facts. Did I have a good year? Did I have a bad year? What did I do right? What did I do wrong? What can I do better? Now is the time to ask the question and begin planning. The time to begin planning is not mid January, it is now. This will be the first in a series of article on planning for growth and success in business and your personal life.This article is the first of four that will discuss those critical and sometimes hard to face questions that might separate you from those in business and those going out of business
Are You Ready for 2011? – Planning Your Business
Business planning for the new year.Effective planning drives success and mitigates risk. How to get started and top ten topics for discussion.
The 2011 Strategic Planning Checklist: Evaluate Your Strategic Planning Process and Strategy Effectiveness
One of our most popular articles last year dealt with a simple checklist for evaluating strategic planning process effectiveness. Having ushered in the new year and a fresh decade, we decided it would be a worthwhile exercise to revisit the list and analysis done last year and submit an updated, more fitting set of evaluation criteria for 2011. There are new criteria added in this year’s evaluation, and many that have carried over from last year but have enhanced analysis.
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