059- Leadership & Strategic Thinking

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Leadership and strageic thinking requires more than a title and corner office. It requires the ability to think it forward then share that vision with your team. 

:45      Introduce leadership and strategic thinking episode:

• Leadership includes guidance, advice, direction and timing.
• Strategic thinking includes the what, when, where, who and why of any business planning.
• Tactical steps all add up to outcomes based on leadership vision that was shared with others on your team.

           
1:15   Who benefits from this leadership and strategic thinking show? 
Small business managers or owners   
 
2:00   Talking points about leadership and strategic thinking: (8:00 mins)

1. What is your time frame for strategic planning?
2. Who should know about your vision other than you? Why?
3. How do you know if you are on track or not? Who else should care about this?  
4. If you are not on track what changes should you make and when?
5. Once you make changes do you start over or simply change short term goals as measured against your longer term objectives?

 
10:00 Tips for improving your leadership and strategic thinking: (7:00 mins)

1. Start with where you want to end up and reverse engineer your way back to NOW. Everything depends on your final goals. What does winning look like to you? How about your team? Are the visions the same or almost the same?
2. Coaching helps clarify objectives by challenging your steps to achieve them.
   1. What do you want?
   2. When do you want it?
   3. What is the payoff?
   4. Who else cares?
3. What parts of your strategic plan are out of your control? How do you plan for this?
4. Finally – when you know you are about to hit your goals – that’s the time to bring your team together and share the good news!

 
17:00 Final Take-aways on leadership and strategic thinking: (2:00 mins) 
 
19:00 Closing comments:
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20:00 Show ends