This week the spotlight is on the 5th building block of culture: systems and processes. PlanPlus Online prescribes 5 building blocks for building Culture: Shared Values Communication, Language and Symbols Rituals and Routines Habits of Effectiveness Systems and Processes The right systems and processes streamline tasks and increase efficiency. No one knew this better than [...]
It’s already April and spring is right around the corner… This week is the perfect time to reflect on the progress of our New Year’s Resolutions and goals for 2014. Over the past few months, many of us have drifted, forgotten about, or maybe even given up on our New Year’s Resolutions and goals for [...]
Progressive Goal Planning in a Company Setting Progressive Goal Planning can be used as a way to describe your company's approach to goal setting on an individual, departmental, or company-wide basis. Progressive Goal Planning sets the tone for frequent and successful goal campaigns. It sets the tone for individual and personal engagement in goals. It [...]
Nearly everyone, at some point, has encountered the idea that goal planning is a key to achieving success. We find this notion everywhere, including in books and magazines, on television, in classrooms and seminars, and in blogs, newsletters, articles, and white papers. However, despite the pervasiveness of this idea and the good intentions of those who [...]
Prioritizing and organizing your tasks is crucial to your to-do list. It's important that you only have one list, whether the tasks are personal or for work. These projects and tasks are all things that you need to complete and you should be able to prioritize them all in one place, if you take [...]
After a few days of rest and relaxation, it can be difficult to come in to work and be productive on a Monday. The popular movie, Office Space, describes this all too familiar experience as “a case of the Mondays.” It’s ironic that the first day back to work, after recharging our batteries all weekend, is [...]
What is Planning? The Planning Process includes the space between where you are, where you have been, and where you want to be. It is activity management. So what is planning? Planning is not unchanging. It is also not a meaningless collection of static plans. Planning is an ACTIVE process of evaluation and […]
Launching a CRM initiative may be the best resolution your business can make. As various holidays wind down and we head into the New Year, many of us will make resolutions to implement positive changes and improvements in our personal lives during the coming year. The New Year is also a great time to make [...]
Why do you build a plan in the first place? Plans serve several functions: […]
As you start your planning, there are 7 things that should be in your schedule every week. Putting things off until the last minute and leaving projects languishing in an unfinished state leads to less productive lifestyle choices where everything can be done "tomorrow." Items like smart phones, as well as work-based internet access, are responsible [...]
Do you keep a journal? In todays world of digital “this” and go paperless “that” the idea of a journal might conjure thoughts of secret teenage crushes or something that you “used to do”. But why? As you get older the benefits of keeping a journal get greater and greater. Here are 10 great reasons [...]
Many people consider Ben Franklin as not only one of the Founding Fathers of the United States but as one of the founding thought leaders on personal development. Ben Franklin's virtues in his own personal quest for moral perfection are shown below: Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation Silence: Speak not [...]
