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12 Resources to Lead a Strategic Planning Process When You’re New

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Someone downloaded a free Brainzooming strategy eBook, noting his biggest strategy challenge is “how to do a strategic planning process when you are new.” Secure copies of previous plans and strategy documents, and don’t settle for the first things people offer you. via Shutterstock.

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Team Collaboration – 14 Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach

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Depending on the nature of the pre-meeting outreach you conduct with participants, it can promote team collaboration and help: Get to know participants better and figure out how to best work with them. Understand the nature of disagreements or contrarian points of view, especially how accurate, deeply held, and unchanging they are.

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A Stakeholder Interview Checklist

Boxes and Arrows

How would you like to be involved in the rest of the project, and what’s the best way to reach you? Who are your customers and users today, and how do you want that to be different in five years? How does this product fit into the overall product strategy? How do you expect to differentiate this product?

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 4 Ways to Make a Strategic Planning Process Productive

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Here are four different approaches The Brainzooming Group employs with clients: Instead of using complex strategic exercises that aren’t beneficial outside planning, we use strategic thinking questions that fit how people think and work on a daily basis. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Leadership Training – Walmart Hopes for Big Impact

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No matter an organization’s size, employees interacting with customers need to know how to manage potentially negative situations before they reach popular social networks and run the risk of spreading widely. Understanding the lifetime value accurately helps brands make good decisions on when and how to invest in customer relationships.

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5 Keys to Streamlining Strategic Planning

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Executives that SHOULD know how to develop and write a strategic plan struggled. Since strategy planning is an infrequent activity, it is difficult for executives to master it. Strategy Implication: Remove the tedious aspects of strategy planning, replacing them with efficient alternative approaches.

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Strategic Planning – 3 Surprising Ways Online Collaboration Works

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After documenting the tactics, we used a Zoomference so the primary project team could efficiently and collaboratively identify timing for the six-hundred tactics in less than four hours – all online. They developed a sales strategy and associated messaging for the upcoming year. Discover How Online Collaboration Boosts Progress.