My Checklist – Getting Ready for Business Growth 2018

Warning! This is only for entrepreneurs and organizational leaders who are serious about growth and active strategic thinking?

How serious are you about getting value for your consulting, marketing or strategy execution dollar?

If you are very serious you will act to ensure your service provider knows and give you exactly what you need for the best price and in time — we’d like you to help us to be the ideal service provider.

This will take a few minutes and real thinking, so let’s get started right away.

After you have helped us to get it right we’d like you to try this for your business or organization too.

But don’t stop there we’d also love to hear from you regarding how it worked for you.

Our audience would also love to know how this exercise worked for you. Thank you for sharing on at: https://goo.gl/6gC4Yc

How to Help

Help us to bring the action section of the table below to life by answering one or more questions in the Action panel. Thank you for typing the question number along with your answer.

We thank those who answer all of our questions.

Students and academics are also welcome to share.

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“Early bird catches the fattest worm”.

Get ready to grow in 2018 and thank you for helping us to grow along with you.

Hey, do this for your agribusiness too!

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Meegan Scott

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High Point of the Week — One That Came with Smiling Faces

Touching down in Africa once again for strategic planning from Canada via Internet was one of the high points of this week.

It was a pleasure to meet the faces from our previous intervention and as well as the new faces.

Like most of our clients they look to us for:

  1. Simplified planning language
  2. Easy to understand and easy to apply performance management and measurement framework
  3. Actionable impact learning support
  4. Strategy communication that drives commitment
  5. Team help with growing its competence in planning and reporting
  6. Help with better ownership of plan and results organization wide

We look forward to our journey for 2017 as well as future journeys together.

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Environmental Scanning Solutions – PESTEL Analysis & SKEPTIC Scans +

Environmental Scanning solutionEnvironmental scanning solutions for risk intelligence and risk management needs. We will conduct environmental scans and present the findings for your strategic marketing, corporate strategy planning, policy development, project planning or organizational assessment need. We make it easy for management to see how the external environment does and could impact a market, policy, program, strategy, project or the organization in the future. Get your eyes on emerging trends, strengthen your forecasting, get a better understanding of factors, issues, variables and causal relationships. skeptic scanAsk for a PESTEL or PESTLE Analysis, SWOT, SKEPTIC Scan, PEST, STEEP, SLEPT, STEEPLE, PESTER or model of your choice. Let us help you test those assumptions and make decisions with insights from rigorous analysis.

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Phone: 647-854-5323 or click here to leave us a message.

 

 

 

 

Burning Desire: A Culture of Performance Improvement

Is performance improvement your burning desire?
Is a culture of performance improvement on your wish list for your organization, team, program or project?

Then Pepper Pot Lunch ℠ is for you.
Pepper Pot Lunch ℠ is hot!  That is why it is not for every team or organization.
Pepper Pot Lunch ℠   is tailor made to suit the strategic conversation, root cause analysis and problem solving needs of organizations and their champions of change.

Each participatory session is geared towards tackling a challenge related to:
1. Understanding strategy
2. Winning commitment to strategy
3. Taking action for getting the results you, the organization, customers and stakeholders want
4. Growing a culture of performance and improvement

Because you know a great solution when you see it, you’ll be among the first 100 to order your
Pepper Pot Lunch ℠   solution for your team or organization.

Pepper Pot Lunch ℠   are not just “talk shops”, they are interactive, fact finding, information sharing and active problem solving sessions.

We guarantee rich entertaining sessions which engages heads, hearts and hands for getting you on the path to success.

Try Pepper Pot Lunch ℠   today.

Facilitated strategic management conversations—that drive commitment, strategy alignment and help your organization to grow a culture of performance and improvement.

Lunch date with your team and you?
We’ll take Pepper Pot Lunch, plus we’ll also take the fire for you when it comes to those tough strategic management conversations.

Pepper Pot Lunch ℠ Sessions are held for 60 to 120 min. [The time is dependent on the issue and type of session].

Message us to discuss your Pepper Pot Lunch need and order today!
Or phone us at: 1(647) 854-5323

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Celebrating 5, Join us for Discussions, Give-a-ways and Tips

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Snippets from Celebrating 5!

If you missed out in April you still have time to catch up in May.
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Share your thoughts and perspectives.
Ask questions and get answers.
Win solutions.

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Undemocratic Resource Allocation
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Operationalizing Strategy

 

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organizational assessments 2017

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psychological expectations

Psychological Expectations – clients and consultants –  Thanks for sharing your opinions
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Your Strategy Facilitator
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program design quiz

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plan and program management help

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Pepper Pot LunchSM

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What’s your big three? That is your big three top tough issues for strategic management conversation or a Pepper Pot LunchSM .

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Pepper Pot Lunch℠ – Strategic Management Conversations

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When change is tough and execution is out hunting to eat strategy its time to have that tough conversation.

We know that having those conversations can be tough, but more than that you need the opportunity to sit back with your team and listen deeply, then think and share. That is why we have designed “Pepper Pot Lunch℠” — strategic management conversation series for your team and you.

Pepper Pot Lunch℠, is freshly cooked with love and care for getting those tough strategic management conversations out into the open and to help your team come up with answers for getting the results you want.

Each participatory session is geared towards tackling a challenge related to:

  1. Understanding strategy
  2. Winning commitment to strategy
  3. Taking action for getting the results you, the organization, customers and stakeholders want
  4. Growing a culture of performance and improvement

Pepper Pot Lunch℠ are not just “talk shops”, they are interactive, fact finding, information sharing and active problem solving sessions.

Each session is designed or customized to address the problem you seek to address.

For example, we could troubleshoot and improve one or two component(s) of your program design in a session, or we could address a topic such as “Undemocratic Resource Allocation”. Perhaps you need a session on results-oriented planning and/or evaluation vocabulary [Planning terms, objectives, goals, SMARTER KPIs etc.].

We guarantee rich entertaining sessions which engages heads, hearts and hands for getting you on the path to success.

Try Pepper Pot Lunch today.

Facilitated strategic management conversations­­­­­—that drive commitment, strategy alignment and help your organization to grow a culture of performance and improvement.

Lunch date with your team and you?

 We’ll take Pepper Pot Lunch, plus we’ll also take the fire for you when it comes to those tough strategic management conversations.

Pepper Pot Lunch℠ Sessions are held for 60 to 120 min. [The time is dependent on the issue and type of session].

Message us to discuss your Pepper Pot Lunch℠ request today!

Or phone us at: 1(647) 854-5323

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Did you forget someone or an organization who could benefit?

Let’s see— an:

  1. HR Manager
  2. Program Manager
  3. ED/Head of Organization, Project or Program Team
  4. Non-profit, Government Department, Business, International Development Project

Thanks in advance for sharing with your network appropriately.


Share and win

Share this post via Twitter, LinkedIn and or Facebook for a chance to win a free Pepper Pot Lunch Session for your favourite charity or business. Share using #PepperPotAct.  At the end of May, we will select the winner by a random draw of those who shared across the three social media channels listed above.The winner may choose a 60-min. or a 90-min. session.  If you are outside of  GTA you will be required to choose a problem that is suitable to a virtual Pepper Pot Lunch, most sessions are designed for face-to-face interaction though many are suitable for virtual [Monitor or big screen TV required].

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Strategy Backstop – Executive & Corporate Solutions

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March 2017

Hoshin X-Matrix Planning & Risk Intelligence Webinar

 

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Join us on June 17, 2016 for the Hoshin X-Matrix Planning & Risk Intelligence Webinar.

Watch this space for details.

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What You Get When You Buy This Solution

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  • A plan you understand and can execute.
  • Free consultation before you buy
  • A plan that helps you to organize marketing, sales, cash flow, and operations for ensuring you can meet your profit and service targets
  • A guide that helps you to improve efficiency and effectiveness
  • Assigned roles and responsibilities and their contribution to specific and individual goals, objectives, targets, results, or strategy success
  • A plan and strategy that is adjusted to give you the handle on strategy and business risk
  • A plan that tells what you are accountable for and what you commit to delivering
  • The basis for evidence-based monitoring and reporting; performance evaluation, and assessment
  • A plan that inspires commitment and one that wins entrepreneur, team, investor, and customer confidence.
  • A guide for increasing sales and growing profit
  • A performance management system that suits your need and schedule.

Your plan and planning experience are guaranteed to foster learning; and helps with continuous improvement. In other words, your Strategic Operational Plan is “Plan, Do, Check, and Improve” ready!

Goals, objectives, strategies, output, outcomes, KPIs, KRIs, indicator targets, and reporting timelines are clearly articulated.

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