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Are You Ready for Tomorrow, Whatever It Brings?

Learn how executive teams or boards can start thinking and acting strategically and create a future for their organization that's a reality, not a pipedream.

1. Plan Your Future, Not Fix the Past

  • Do You Have Staying Power?
    Intuitive luck and dedication probably were a big factor in your organization's growth. But in today's changing marketplace, smart leaders turn to sound strategic planning for continued success.
  • Do You Need a Fortune Teller?
    What are the opportunities and the obstacles "out there" that have the potential to affect your success? Learn about the STEP approach to environmental scanning.
  • Can You Answer These Strategic Questions?
    Is your organization going to be around tomorrow? Executive teams and boards of directors must make the time to regularly ask and answer these five simple, yet crucial questions.

    Note: This article can be customized with specific examples and tips for your organization or industry. Contact us to request an article for your publication, newsletter or website.

  • How to Plan a Productive Retreat
    Four tips to plan a retreat that ensures meaningful interaction as well as lasting results.

2. Develop Tomorrow's Leaders Today

  • New Rules For New Leaders
    It's no longer business as usual during these times of great uncertainty and also great opportunity. We're seeing leadership emerge as the most important element of business -- the ability to get results. Learn 25 life leadership life savers and time savers.
  • Why Succession Planning Can't Wait
    Are you prepared for unexpected events such as the death, defection or retirement of key personnel, especially the CEO/Executive Director? Will you be thrown into chaos? Learn five key strategies for successful leadership succession.
  • Credibility: It Can Make or Break You
    Credibility is the working asset in every relationship, both personal and business. People have credibility with each other or they don't. You can not buy it, trade for it, or even go on eBay for it. Learn 10 ways to boost your credibility quotient.
  • What You Can Learn From Successful Leaders
    Nobody is perfect, including people in charge. We recently polled successful leaders and many acknowledged making mistakes in their career. Here is a sampling of their biggest goofs. What can you learn from them?

3. Don't Stop Now, Lead the Change

  • Get Everyone On Board the Change Train
    An effective strategic plan should be a roadmap to success, not a document that languishes on someone's self or drawer, soon to be forgotten. Three tips to turn strategy into action into success.
  • I'm Committed, Why Isn't Everyone Else?
    Most people don't resist the idea of change as much as they resist being changed. Here are the most common reasons and the tactic to turn it around --- how to turn change resistance to change commitment.
  • Start Out On the Right, Not the Wrong Foot
    When the change message is not well presented, people tend to respond by sitting on the fence, dragging their feet or even worse sabotaging the change effort. Here are six steps to stop that from happening.

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