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ARE YOU A CONSULTANT OR A CONTRACTOR?
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. The term “consultant” is used to describe a wide range of activities. At Leadership Strategies, we ...
Avoid the Expectations Gap!
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. The expectations gap is a painful experience that most consultants have encountered at some point in ...
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Identifying Your Critical Success Factors
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. We’ve written previously about the importance of having SMART objectives. These objectives define the key outcomes ...
Does Your Strategic Plan Distinguish Goals from Objectives?
I’m often surprised by the number of organizations that seem to confuse the concept of goals and objectives. In fact, when asked, “What is the ...
Execution Pitfalls: Why Strategic Plans Don’t Get Executed
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. “How do I move this plan from paper to execution?” So asks the CEO of a ...
Avoiding Execution Pitfalls: The Strategy Review
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. In a previous newsletter article, we defined four primary pitfalls to strategy execution. The Urgency Principle ...
Aligning the Organization with the Priorities of the Plan
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Many organizations send their executives off to do strategic planning and then have the mid-level managers ...
How do you know if your Strategic Planning Process is on track?
20 Essentials of Successful Strategic Planning and Execution Strategic planning is a critical activity for leaders of corporate, government and non-profit organizations alike. Through the ...
The Drivers Model: The Secrets to Facilitating Strategy
Leadership Strategies has developed the Drivers Model, a method for taking a strategic approach to addressing a business situation. The model provides a simple communication ...
Why Use A Facilitator?
For many, meetings are viewed as a dreaded evil to be avoided at all costs: far too little gets accomplished, much of the discussion is ...
Prioritizing Strategies Adapted from the course Strategic Planning
If you are a veteran of strategic planning, you know that most planning efforts result in more strategies than you can possibly implement at once. ...
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