In This Issue:
Who are the Experts?
Simplified Strategic Planning Seminars
Making Meetings Matter
Customized workshops available
Strategic Planning Resources

September - Featured Article
Who are the Experts?

Dana Baldwin exposes the experts within your company and gives suggestions for maximizing their ability to improve your overall company performance. Fostering an atmosphere where managers listen to and encourage employee input is a start.

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September - Seminars
Simplified Strategic Planning for Small to Mid-Sized Companies
Simplified Strategic Planning for Small to Mid-Sized Companies Increase Profits by Over 100%

Let Us Show You How to Achieve Better Results Faster. (Companies Using This Process Average a 122.7% Profit Increase over Four Years.)

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A Two Day Seminar
to TURBOCHARGE Your Company
for GREATER SUCCESS!

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September - Guest Article
Making Meetings Matter

Discover how to gain more value from meetings without spending more time in them!

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September - In-House Workshops
Customized one-day and two day workshops

Customized one-day and two day in-house workshop topics
  • Simplified Strategic Planning
    Your team will learn how to achieve greater profits and growth with this practical, no-non-sense methodology.
  • Getting Started
    A great way for your team to kick off the Simplified Strategic Planning process. Your strategic planning will be underway.
  • Interim Assessment to Re-energize Your Strategic Planning
    Your team will identify and deal with the difficulties you are encountering in moving forward and sustaining momentum to completion.
  • Alignment for Strategy Implementation
    You already have a good strategic plan in place but are frustrated with execution. Your team will learn how to align your people with the direction inherent in your vision - to make your strategy work.

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September - Strategic Planning Resources
Alignment For Implementation
Getting Your People to Make Your Strategies Work
By Robert W. Bradford (editor), with Thomas E. Ambler, M. Dana Baldwin and Denise A. Harrison.

You are a busy executive with a strong strategic vision for your business. You may already have a good strategic plan in place - but you have been frustrated with the execution of your strategic vision. While there may be many causes for this frustration, one of the most difficult to deal with is the alignent of the people in your organization with the direction inherent in your vision.

  
 
September - Strategic Planning Resources
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