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Four Critical Questions for Strategic Planing
Strategic planning has become a buzz phrase in the past ten plus years. There are several varieties of strategic planning approaches-all are designed to help teams and organizations focus on the most...
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The Leader & Planning
In case you haven’t noticed, it is July. The significance for many ministry settings which operate on an academic year is that it is time to begin thinking about a strategic plan. This can be the...
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The Leader & Planning: Preparing Your Team
Many leaders do not prepare their teams for an upcoming planning session, except to let them know where and when. The first sound uttered by a team member when they get the planning meeting email is a...
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The Leader & Planning: Self Preparation
This is the 3rd in a series on planning. I purposefully chose to talk about the leader’s own self preparation in planning now. In the first post I talked about the overall purposes of planning. In...
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The Leader & Planning: Pace and Environment
This is the 4th in a series on leadership and planning. For many organizations it will soon be the season for team strategic planning. You need a team that is highly engaged and ready to give their...
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6 Common Errors in Strategic Planning
This is the final post in a series on the leader and planning. I originally studied these common errors and wrote about them several years ago. But here is an abbreviated and updated version on this...
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My Top Posts for July
Here are the five most popular posts from my blog for the month of July. 6 Common Errors in Strategic Planning In this post I attempt to uncover regular mistakes I see leaders and teams make in the...
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Problem Solving-Tips & Traps (Part 1)
There are many templates for how to engage a team in problem solving. Some are better than others. But often I see teams abandon a problem solving technique or process out of tiredness and boredom,...
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Problem Solving-Tips & Traps (Part 2)
Yesterday I made some comments about the primary reasons a leader would use a problem solving process with a team. The two reasons I listed were the need for strong ownership and/or the need for great...
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5 for Leadership (8/31/13)
Here is a fresh set of 5 leadership posts from the blogosphere this past week. There are thoughts on our 2nd U.S. president, the seduction of charisma, leadership selflessness, thinking tools for team...
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