Take the Test - how clear is your strategy?
It is essential to have a clear strategy that everyone in your business understands and can contribute to.
Take this simple test to see how clear your business strategies are:
A) Ask your staff these 4 questions:
What are the 4-6 things that make us different from our competitors?
As a business what key things do we really excel at?
What are our main current business priorities?
In your job what do you think are the most important things you need to achieve?
Would your strategies get an A+ for Clarity?
B) Review their answers.
How consistent are they? Can you see any themes running through the answers? Do the themes resonate with your core business strategies?
C) ...
There is only one thing more important than strategy, but unfortunately it is often overlooked, or even forgotten. So what is more important than strategy?
The results your strategy is designed to deliver.
We have seen organisations become so focused on implementing their strategy that they forget about the original results their strategy was designed to deliver.
We call this being 'activity-based', rather than 'results-baseed'.
'Activity based' is where the focus is on planning and completing activities.
'Results-based' is where the focus is on achieving results and activities are assessed in the context of what impact they make on the results.
Results are what matter. Results are what your strategies are designed to deliver.
Avoid getting sidetracked by all the activity
It is easy to get side-tracked by activity. Activity is the ...
