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"Results Derived from Within"
Written by: Vickie Bevenour, a Professional
Certified Coach, PCC
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September
2010
Are
You Effectively Setting Strategic Goals?
The National
Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)
recently invited me to facilitate a weekend
strategic planning retreat for the Board of
Directors of the Raleigh Chapter. The current
President is a long-time friend and colleague of
mine. Our challenge was integrating past planning
sessions with fresh new ideas and assimilating the
members who had been on the Board for a while with
those who were new to the Board this year.
The President
requested that I use a tool that I had used with her
years ago to help facilitate this integration and to
build a powerful strategic plan for the coming year.
At the end of our session, we achieved that result.
The question that I
have for you is: What tool do you use
to strategically plan your goals for the coming year
and beyond, whether personal or for your entire
organization? Please read on……
This particular tool
that we used is called “The Goals Grid: A Tool for
Clarifying Goals and Objectives”. If you go to http://www.nickols.us/strategic_planning_tool.pdf
you can find its history and information detailing
its evolution. My purpose is to introduce the
concept here with the hope of having each of you
think about strategic planning in a way that
challenges you to think in a more integrated
fashion.
The concept of this
tool is that a goal is a condition that we envision
as part of our future. It is a simple 2 X 2 matrix,
with four quadrants that asks four simple and direct
questions. They are:
- What do you want
to achieve?
- What do you want
to preserve?
- What do you want
to avoid?
- What do you want
to eliminate?
When you read these
questions, what came to mind as an “answer”?
What do you find different about this tool from
others that you have used in the past? What would
your answers be to these questions as it relates to
a personal goal that you are trying to set for
yourself? How about a professional goal?
This matrix is
really an integration of yes and no answers.
Typically, if you have something that you want to
achieve or preserve it will entail some type of
caveat of what you want to avoid. For example:
- Achieve an
increase in membership while preserving the
integrity of our programs.
- Preserve our
current customer satisfaction ratings and avoid
additional cost
- Eliminate
unnecessary costs while continuing our current
level of R&D
- Increase market
share by 15% in a new market and preserve market
share in current market.
What I find helpful
about these questions is that they integrate the
successes that you already have built and it makes
you define your future in terms of those successes.
If you have achieved a success in the past, what do
you want to do with it in the future? Is it still
appropriate to preserve this, or has it outrun its
usefulness?
The Goals Grid
provides a structure for examining multi-dimensional
decisions and actions that are being suggested. It
provides a format for us to adequately think through
all dimensions of a personal or professional goal,
and to see how our various goals relate to each
other.
Go ahead….give it
a try the next time that you are building a
strategic goal and see how much more comprehensive
your plan becomes. Congratulations, you are well on
your way to becoming more successful by
strategically setting goals and deriving
results from within.
*To review any of
these past newsletters, please visit the Newsletter
section of www.CoachVickie.com
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SUCCESS IS MY GREATEST PLEASURE.
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Volume
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