Thoughtful Leadership

Have you ever struggled with coming up with a strategy that your team would follow?   Well, here are the ten steps to build a kick-ass strategy! #1:  The first step when you're building out a great strategy is, gather up your team. #2: Get a whiteboard and lots of colorful markers. #3: Gather up your Post-it®  notes and your Sharpies®. #4: Hand out the Post-it®  notes and Sharpies®..   #5:  Define the future goal. #6:  Define the celebration. #7:  Ask your team, ‘What do we need to do right before the goal?’ #8:  Continue working back step by step:  Ask the question again,  ‘What has to happen before that?’ #9:  Then start connecting the tasks with your whiteboard markers. #10 Assign responsibilities and resources: Building from the end to the beginning allows you to pull the need from the end, building ‘lean’ into the process. Now you can transfer this to an online strategy map and you actually are able to track it using MS project or whatever project management software you want.   When you facilitate you w