Once your free-flowing brainstorming session time is over, it is time to confirm your Strategy and organize your Strategic Roadmap. The Strategy will consider the business you are in (or want to be in) from your earlier vision, mission, values and growth goals; and determine how your organization will thrive in that business. Historically, we …
How do you know you are prioritizing the “right” work? Learn how to objectively prioritize projects and align your team to the priority. Watch our Lunch and Learn on How to Prioritize Projects: There is always more work to do than there are people, money, and time with which to do it. And if you …
Developing a Strategy, while often considered a “Blue Sky” activity, necessarily must be grounded in the current reality of the organization and its environment. Only when taking these things into account, coupled with knowledge of the type of growth you want and your Vision for the future, can an effective Strategy be determined. Thus, the …
Here are 40 Questions to ask before leading Strategic Planning sessions in a Current State Business Review section to “confirm the present.” Some are quantitative, and some qualitative, though having a high level understanding around most of these to inform the foundation for growth. What kind of technology are we using? What are we creating? …
Process Mapping is an effective way to improve business operations. How can this be done well in today’s virtual environment? Top 5 Takeaways: Prepare Tools and Backup Files Ahead Don’t skip the Scribe Role Maintain focused sessions with breaks Use Virtual Tools even when in person! Process Map ANYWAY! Happy Mapping! Reference Articles: A Crash …
There is a lot of buzz about the Great Resignation or the Resignation Tsunami. More recently, however, the conversation among Leaders has shifted toward Retention. Leaders are recognizing that they are not able to hire talent quickly, and turnover is expensive and can cause delays in value production for customers. So how can you …
Direct supervisors, or managers, are the most important influence on employees’ job satisfaction. According to this article by McKinsey published in September 2020, “Relationships with management are the top factor in employees’ job satisfaction, which in turn is the second most important determinant of employees’ overall well-being. “ This is so well established that Patrick Lencioni, …
Before you head off into the strategic realm, it is often helpful to consider what you are trying to do as an organization (your Mission) and where you want to be in the future (your Vision). Align your team to specific definitions of these. Below are AJC’s Definitions of Mission and Vision. How to define …
AJC’s Project Managers communicate in a timely manner. In other words, we are responsive. This morning I was copied on an email from a client asking to change a meeting scheduled for midday today. Within 10 minutes our Project Manager had changed the meeting to meet her recommendations with a friendly “No problem!” This is …
Register for our May 6 Lunch and Learn on this Topic! So many ideas or projects, and so little time or resources! One major concern for resource constrained organizations is how to prioritize their great ideas or projects in a way that makes sense to the business. This can be done using objective criteria and …
