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Renew Strategic Thinking without Rewriting your Strategic Plan

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Strategic thinking requires a shift in mindset from the problem-solving, now-oriented practice relied upon to manage transactions to a less linear, more chaotic future-oriented process in which problem-solving structures reaches their limits.

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Learn why the pandemic should not disrupt your strategic management.

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Mid-year usually is the time to review progress against goals, and update your strategic thinking, given new changes to your plan assumptions. Is a mid-year check-in against plans relevant given the sweeping changes we are experiencing with this global pandemic?

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12 Reasons Budget Meetings Aren’t Strategic and 3 Ways to Fix Them

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This behavior obscures looking at their areas and the entire organization strategically, comprehensively, and with a smart investment perspective. If you’re interested in changing the strategic disconnect of budget meetings – whether you are in finance and accounting or not – we have a guide! 3 Ways to Fix Budget Meetings.

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9 Things to Deliver in a Strategic Planning Process

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In terms of implementable , the strategy needs to: Fit the change management expectations of the organization. If an organization habitually chases tactics in the absence of strategy, we develop and introduce strategic thinking exercises to increase focus on what will create strategic impact.

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Branding Strategy – 14 Articles on Engaging an Internal Brand Team

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Our content addresses collaborative ways to strategically engage employees in creating and delivering the best brand experience. The branding strategy workshop came about from talking to too many executives that think it’s okay to let employees in on branding changes at the same time (or even after) customers learn about them.

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Strategic Planning Process – 2 Fun Ways to Frame Important Questions

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One way to create greater engagement during a strategic planning process is through framing important questions in new ways. Other times it means changing the perspective from which participants are answering questions. Except now, I can’t remember WHY I was thinking about using nursery rhymes. Here is one of those times.

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5 Advantages of Strategy Statements with Simple Language

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You need to download this FREE Brainzooming eBook, published with the Global Strategic Management Institute. Related posts The Third Day of Life-Changing Gifts – Giving the Okay to Challenge Thinking Strategic Planning – 7 Questions for Avoiding Strategic Management Failures Don’t Overthink It?