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While the myriad reasons to avoid planning are understandable, there are many benefits to committing to a visioning and planning process, including those that affect the key issues that arise at some point for most business owners: life-work balance; the decision whether and how to grow; staying clear and motivated in the business; breaking free of crisis-to-crisis management; deciding when or whether to take or turn away business; and finding and maintaining good relationships with employees, clients and suppliers. So how can a business owner find an alternative to the stodgy processes borrowed from large corporations? By taking the planning process in small steps so that it’s less an external, academic process and one that is more integrated with — and therefore relevant to — your business. Our 14-step planning-tip series is designed to help you do just that. This Ivy Sea "Hot-Issue" Planning-Tips Kit includes: — Introduction: Why should business owners plan? — Tip# 1: Setting the goal that'll turn your plans into action A FEW GREAT REASONS TO DO A GOOD PLAN — Tip #2: Developing collaborative support for performance goals — Tip #3: Identifying milestones and check-points to stay on track — Tip #4: Identify and celebrate accomplishments — Tip #5: Making mid-course adjustments — Tip #6: Time for a mid-plan B-12 energy booster? — Tip #7: Taking an ethics pulsecheck: Who does your plan affect, and how? — Tip #8: Bridging the spirit of your plan with your actions — Tip #9: Integrating past, present and future — Tip #10: Aligning your expectations with reality — Tip #11: Assessing accountability and consequences — Tip #12: Identify learnings for future use — Tip #13: Applying your learnings to next year's plan — Tip # 14: Bonus! Don't forget your "A&O" summary! The full "Introduction to Planning" article and the 14-tip series is now available in our new Issue-Tips Kit, "Ivy Sea's Planning Tips Series," in the Ivy Sea PDF Content Library. Purchase this and other Ivy Sea skill-building issue kits – or customize your own to suit your unique interests and needs. More information on the skill-building PDF Content Library please... Ivy Sea Organizational-Transformation and Conscious-Enterprise Consulting Services: Visit About Ivy Sea or give us a call to learn how we can help you discover how to define your conscious-enterprise principles and vision, make the most of your organizational strengths, and rise to greater levels of mastery, success and meaningfulness as an individual, group or organization. How can we help you? We welcome your email inquiry. |
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