Strategic Planning For Action™

It is time to put the ACTION in your Strategic Planning.

Every CEO has a Strategic Plan. BUT … How many actually meet their goals?

These plans are formulated by successful people, by smart people, by committed people. So why don’t more of them succeed?

Results from Legacy’s Technology:

• Employees can decide quickly, on their own, which opportunities are directly on the organization’s purpose line.
• Vision and the big picture are present in day-to-day actions.
• People experience the future as a personal, compelling opportunity (and not a set of rules and guidelines).
• Project teams and divisions are transparent, not ridden by turf wars and power plays, so their actions and results are seen.
• Promises and requests, not opinions, excuses or complaints, dominate meetings.
• Participants at meetings offer ideas freely, not fearfully. Participants get support for their ideas.
• The entire process takes days, not weeks, not months,
  

Stop formulating and writing plans. They get presented to managers with great, often infectious enthusiasm. But, as time passes, they generally produce incremental results, at best.

“Experts” will tell you all the reasons for such failures. Yet when the cycle is repeated, “fixing” these errors in implementation, again the results are lackluster. The real reason for these failures is that the strategic plans are based on yesterday, not tomorrow, and assume a static world while the plan is formalized, rolled out and finally implemented.

Edwin Land’s strategic plan for the instant camera had nothing to do with yesterday, had nothing to do with rigid plans. It had everything to do with a vision of satisfying a need to see one’s memories now, adapting his strategic plan frequently.

What makes for successful Strategic Planning For Action™?

• Your vision must begin with a vision, not an analysis of yesterday.
• This vision is based on creativity and intuition, not spreadsheet analysis or controlling lower level managers.
• That vision must be flexible, must continually adapt to a changing world
• Strategic Planning For Action™ is everything to do with spanning the chasm between unfulfilled possibility and possibility actualized.
• You need many possible paths to produce the desired results, because you cannot know exactly what the future will be.
• With proper technology and coaching, your people can make strategic planning actionable
• This same coaching will ensure that debilitating confusion dissipates.

The ultimate bonus: This intervention works deceptively quickly and has everyone aligned on your Strategic Plan for Action in days, not months.