Answer these 10 questions to set your focus and direction for your business in 2017
I’ve spent the past 20 years facilitating strategic planning for businesses. The biggest obstacle I have seen is the time commitment to the process.
I’ve developed a worksheet, Strategy for the Time Strapped, that gives you a framework you can use to gain clarity and focus, in just a few hours.
The worksheet includes a step-by-step process that includes the following questions.
10 Questions
- What variables – competition, regulation, and economy most impacted your business in 2016? What variables do you believe will most impact your business in 2017?
- What is the one thing your organization was worst at in 2016? What single most thing needs to happen to fix it?
- What is the one thing your organization did best in 2016? What do you need to do to turn that success into a repeatable process?
- Which individual was most responsible for standing in the way of your organization in 2016? What are you going to do about it?
- Which individual was most responsible for your success in 2016? What are you going to do about it?
- Which department, division, team, or function was most responsible your organization’s success in 2016? What are you going to do about it?
- Which department, division, team, or function was most responsible for standing in the way of your organization’s success in 2016? What are you going to do about it?
- What is the single metric you will measure your success? What are you doing about it?
- If you came back tomorrow as the new boss with a clean sheet, what would you do?
- If your perfect competitor opened up across the street from you, what would they be like?
