10 strategic questions for 2012

Hello,

November, for me, is always the time of the year when I go into planning mode whether it be in my personal capacity or on a business level (regardless of when the financial year end is.) It is a good time to look at what you wanted to achieve in the year, take stock and plan for the year ahead.

 When no planning occurs we run the risk of living life reactively or living someone else’s life script. Take time to look at the questions to follow. You can answer them in your personal capacity or use them in a Team or Company environment.

 Start formulating the life you want to live, the Team you want to be part of and the Company where goals are communicated and met.

10 strategic questions for 2012:

  1.     What is Your/The Team’s/The Company vision?

• Who are the stakeholders?
• Does it have a promise of making a difference?

 2.     Is the vision clearly stated?

• Can you explain why you exist in a single statement?
• Can you explain ‘the what’ and ‘the how’?

 3.     What factors are you depending on to realise the vision?

• Are YOU in control of the output?
• Do the different business units have mission statements that feed into the vision?
• Does each team know why they exist and what their critical success factors are?
• Does each team member know their strengths, their role and how they contribute to the team?

 4.     Is your vision compelling

• Are you inspired by it?
• Does it inspire people?
• Can people relate to it – can they see how they can contribute to it?

 5.     Do you have a strategy to reach the vision?

• Do you have goals?
• Has each team got a business plan with goals?
• Does each individual member have KPA’s and KPI’s?
• Do you have regular and consistent monitoring and evaluation processes?

 6.     Do you have the right people to realise your vision

• Have you surrounded yourself with supportive people?
• Do you have a strategy to attract talent?
• Do you have a strategy to retain talent?
• Do you offer recognition and reward?

 7.     What legacy will your vision leave

• How will achieving the vision impact, you, individuals, communities, business, the market?

 8.     If you were living/working efficiently and effectively what would that look like? A year from now, what would people be saying about you, the team, the company?

 9.     What is preventing you from achieving this? What are the obstacles? What are the limiting beliefs?

 10.How can you overcome these to achieve the ideal vision you have created?

 “The best way to succeed in the future is to create it.”  Helen Keller

 “Purpose led Companies are led by individuals who have a personal purpose and plan.”  Unknown