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Creating a Strategic Vision - Are You Making These 3 Mistakes Most Organizations Unknowingly Make?
Lack of a commonly understood strategic direction leads to misaligned efforts and poor decisions - and this can end up fatal to your business.

A Strategic Vision Exercise
Here’s an exercise that I’ve found helps people think about vision.
Leadership Strategies: A Productivity Model
An article of 1221 listing and describing the six steps to follow to increase productivity
Focusing your Presentation on your Customer
The most critical step in preparing your presentation is to understand the needs of your stakeholders and make sure your presentation addresses them. Your presentation begins with your customer and their needs, not you and your solution. Align your presentation plan with your customers’ strategic vision of your proposed solution, us the tips in this article and your customers will pay close attention to what follows.
Small Business Growth Quiz – 7 Market Focused Questions You Must Ask To Help You Grow
Stop thinking like a small business owner... here are 7 Questions to think about and respond to when planning for Business Growth

Are you an emotionally intelligent leader?
Every organisation needs a leader. In fact, every individual within an organisation at some stage will be called upon to display leadership qualities. It is not the exclusive domain of the Chief Executive Officer. It begs the question what qualities make for a good leader? According to Kouzes and Posner authors of the widely acclaimed "The Leadership Challenge" there are five practices of exemplary leadership.

Professional Sales Management - Key to Sales Success
In an environment where customer demands predominate, because competition is both relentless and increasingly international, the world of selling must accommodate a dramatically changed world of buying. Critically, sales management must catch up to this new world of selling. All too often, many sales forces are populated by dispirited, burned out salespeople and managed by short-term-oriented and narrowly focused sales managers. Indeed many sales forces are managed as if it were 30 years ago and the sales managers themselves were salespeople doing the work, instead of orchestrating the action.

Realizing Your Entrepreneurial Vision
Question: Can you become a successful entrepreneur? Answer: Yes, but you can’t do it alone. Entrepreneurs begin by creating a vision. The vision states what your company does, why it is in business and what it will achieve. From this vision, a company strategy emerges. It describes the actions the company will take to make the vision a reality. Your company’s future pain and success is a function of 1) whether your vision serves the needs of the marketplace and 2) how successfully your company implements its strategy.

Igniting the Creative Spark at the Cirque du Soleil
What does it take for your company to innovate and stay innovative?Even at The Cirque creativity requires work. Here's what The Cirque does to keep the innovation spark ignited.
Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty
It has been said that the only constant is change. In this age of uncertainty and volatility change can occur more rapidly than we’d wish. One way to take charge of an uncertain future is to make your strategic planning a highly focused activity. We show you how to identify patterns of uncertainty that will prepare you to respond more appropriately and how to engage others in recognizing those patterns.

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How Clear Is Your Vision For Your Business? Is It Time For A Business Vision Examination?
When was the last time you really examined your vision for your business? As the calendar year or the fiscal year draws to a close, this could present perfect timing for an examination of your vision for your business. A vision is dynamic and it requires periodic examination in order to retain your strategic focus in business. Here are ten (10) questions from your strategic thinking business coach to use to perform an annual examination of your business vision.

Motivational and Inspirational Quotes That Guide Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach on Visions and Dreams
Owning and being in business can be a tremendous joy and an enormous amount of work. There are times when one can become overwhelmed with the day-to-day activities and lose sight of the big picture, the dream, and the vision. One always needs to be strategically focused on the vision, the mission and the goals of the business and be reminded to work “on the business” and not just “in the business” as Michael Gerber would tell us. But how does one do that? I love quotations and recently found a dozen quotes that I have used to help motivate and inspire me to keep focusing on the vision and the dream. Here are the dozen quotes that help guide your strategic thinking business coach.

The Top Ten Essential Requirements To Be A Great Strategic Thinker, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Strategic thinking is essential to improving your business performance. And in order to raise the bar of performance in your business from where you are now to where you want to be will require a level of strategic thinking that is in perfect harmony with our vision for the business. Strategic Thinking will create a structured and progressive path forward to your vision. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach believes there are ten (10) essential requirements to become a great strategic thinker. Those ten (10) include:
Business Management: How Clear Is Your Vision?
Vision, mission and values are supposed to be the beacon by which organizations set their strategic direction but how often do they align with everyday priority setting? Does your team share the same definitions for your organization’s vision? If you operate at a departmental level, does your departmental team share your department’s vision? If the answer is, no, then it’s not going to be easy to achieve the results you expect. Here are some helpful suggestions.

10 Strategic Steps To Take To Achieve Your Business Vision, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Highly successful businesses today have developed visions for their organizations and have the vision integrated throughout the company. However, far too many businesses, even some that may be considered successful, have no clear vision and no real plan for the future of the company. There are some people that have a great fear of strategic planning and of developing a clearly defined vision. And sometimes the fear stems from the lack of knowledge of strategic planning and/or confidence that the people and the organization can actually succeed in developing and implementing a sound strategic plan. This fear and the lack of confidence can be minimized by following strategic steps I have used and that my clients have used through strategic thinking business coaching. Here are 10 recommended strategic steps to follow.
Strategic Planning Takes GUTS
Developing a strategic plan may not seem to be a walk in the park. It may become the most challenging task you have ever undertaken as a leader. It starts with your ability to articulate a vision in writing that your management team can use as a baseline to build a "Roadmap to Success"; the strategic plan. This vision for the future or "End Game" as I call it can be used at any time in the future to measure whether the business is maximizing success or on the road to failure. As a result, many presidents and CEO's will put this strategic planning process off as long as possible. However, those leaders that step into the strategic planning arena quickly come to realize an abundance of benefits.
Creating a Brilliant Vision
If your organization does not have a compelling Vision, it is going nowhere. A solid vision of the future is the most important ingredient in any strategic process, yet often organizations just throw out a vision statement as a kind of placeholder to guide action. That is a crime. This article contains a solid process for creating an organizational vision that is brilliant.

Developing a Strategic Plan
Developing a specific Strategic Plan is fundamental to organizational progress. Once an organization has a concrete set of values, a vision, a mission, and a set of behaviors, it is time to document the strategic plan with tactics. This article gives a brief outline of the process.

The Value of Vision
What's your vision? Do you have one for your business? Is it aligned with your personal vision? Having a clearly defined vision, increases the odds you will bring your desires to fruition. Ask any successful business person and you will find they started out with some sort of a vision. Working closely with entrepreneurs provides me with an insider's view of what happens in their operations. Those most likely to succeed are the ones who have a clear vision, a picture which resonates deeply.

Business Vision Statement - 2 Steps
So what about the vision of your business plan? What is the mental image you have of your business and where will it be in 3 months, 6 months, etc. OK - you can dream. Then you can - DEVELOP A VISION STATEMENT - it is your ticket to success - the vision statement is about what your future business will look like. It has been said that a vision statement imagines what success looks like. A Vision Statement provides the inspiration for your daily operations and your strategic decisions. It is a photograph in words and in your mind - of the future of your business. Providing the destination for your journey.
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