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Digg it UP - Are You Wasting Valuable Time?
Several companies specialize in providing packaging services that are sourced by manufacturers to deliver well packaged products to their consumers. The existence and usage of highly sophisticated packaging equipment for different kinds of products has made good quality packaging a must for all products that reach retail shelves.Large scale manufacturers find it more cost effective to include
3. Rapidly move items through the process of decision making. There is no point in having older items take valuable strategic time from the group. Avoid analysis paralysis and keep things moving forward.
4. Ensure there are alternatives available for the team to make. Just as in a sales presentation give the members a choice of three things to choose and let them understand the reasons behind their choic
This is the age of consumers. The whole world is on mission to please them. But with the overused techniques of airing commercials in television or radio and even Internet pop ups there are hardly any novelty left. Your ads may boast of a six-digit budget but money cannot buy freshness. Be simple and show off your ad in a Helium balloon. Advertising balloon will add a unique flavor to your efforts.<
Management tends to focus on the issues of the day more often than on strategic application. Each person in an executive team has areas that they are accountable for and these demand attention. Operational issues rise to the top and need attention. The squeaky wheel gets the oil. Strategic issues develop no fires, no embarrassments, and no sudden breakdowns so it’s never an attention grabber. Many companies don’t get to see that they are missing strategic targets until the first quarter; even then they may dismiss the results as a blip in the economy and wait for the second quarter. It takes half the year to realize there is a problem. It will probably take longer to get back on track. Which means another year of underperformance? Can you afford it?
So how does your team schedule strategic meetings. Do you even schedule strategic meetings? If you analyze where your top management teams time is spent, you may be surprised to see what they spend it on. Executive and management teams don’t need more than a few hours per month focusing on strategic direction but it needs to be quality time and it needs to be focused.
As with dialogue and discussion, strategic action needs more decision making than discussion. Discussion leads to no further understanding but rather a delay in decision making. Discussions around areas that have already been strategically determined are counterproductive and waste time. It was determined to be of strategic importance when it was developed so let’s not refocus efforts in the wrong areas. Focus rather on making decisions.
Make sure your strategy meetings are not hijacked by the most current fire that’s being fought. Have another forum for operational meetings.
To ensure that you achieve the objectives of your strategy meeting:
1. Decide before the meeting which activities are valuable. This may be the team leader’s job or can be done in a quick whip around e-mail each manager assigning a point to each item.
2. Add a financial value to the ramifications of not doing anything. This will keep you focused on the important things.
3. Rapidly move items through the process of decision making. There is no point in having older items take valuable strategic time from the group. Avoid analysis paralysis and keep things moving forward.
4. Ensure there are alternatives available for the team to make. Just as in a sales presentation give the members a choice of three things to choose and let them understand the reasons behind their choice
There are a number of issues to consider:Blocks to creativity and organisational cultureWhat are the blocks to creativity and how can they be overcome? We can all be more creative, so what is stopping us? There are many blocks such as evaluation apprehension (in its many forms) and lack of adequate finance and resources. Separating creative from critical thinking, incremental pr
So how does your team schedule strategic meetings. Do you even schedule strategic meetings? If you analyze where your top management teams time is spent, you may be surprised to see what they spend it on. Executive and management teams don’t need more than a few hours per month focusing on strategic direction but it needs to be quality time and it needs to be focused.
As with dialogue and discussion, strategic action needs more decision making than discussion. Discussion leads to no further understanding but rather a delay in decision making. Discussions around areas that have already been strategically determined are counterproductive and waste time. It was determined to be of strategic importance when it was developed so let’s not refocus efforts in the wrong areas. Focus rather on making decisions.
Make sure your strategy meetings are not hijacked by the most current fire that’s being fought. Have another forum for operational meetings.
To ensure that you achieve the objectives of your strategy meeting:
1. Decide before the meeting which activities are valuable. This may be the team leader’s job or can be done in a quick whip around e-mail each manager assigning a point to each item.
2. Add a financial value to the ramifications of not doing anything. This will keep you focused on the important things.
3. Rapidly move items through the process of decision making. There is no point in having older items take valuable strategic time from the group. Avoid analysis paralysis and keep things moving forward.
4. Ensure there are alternatives available for the team to make. Just as in a sales presentation give the members a choice of three things to choose and let them understand the reasons behind their choic
Most people hate going to meetings. They get tired of wasting time, off-the-topic discussions, and generally not accomplishing much. Each meeting participant bears a certain amount of responsibility in these situations, of course, but the majority of the blame falls squarely on the person charged with running, or facilitating, the meeting.A good chair knows how to make sure the meeting proc
As with dialogue and discussion, strategic action needs more decision making than discussion. Discussion leads to no further understanding but rather a delay in decision making. Discussions around areas that have already been strategically determined are counterproductive and waste time. It was determined to be of strategic importance when it was developed so let’s not refocus efforts in the wrong areas. Focus rather on making decisions.
Make sure your strategy meetings are not hijacked by the most current fire that’s being fought. Have another forum for operational meetings.
To ensure that you achieve the objectives of your strategy meeting:
1. Decide before the meeting which activities are valuable. This may be the team leader’s job or can be done in a quick whip around e-mail each manager assigning a point to each item.
2. Add a financial value to the ramifications of not doing anything. This will keep you focused on the important things.
3. Rapidly move items through the process of decision making. There is no point in having older items take valuable strategic time from the group. Avoid analysis paralysis and keep things moving forward.
4. Ensure there are alternatives available for the team to make. Just as in a sales presentation give the members a choice of three things to choose and let them understand the reasons behind their choic
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Make sure your strategy meetings are not hijacked by the most current fire that’s being fought. Have another forum for operational meetings.
To ensure that you achieve the objectives of your strategy meeting:
1. Decide before the meeting which activities are valuable. This may be the team leader’s job or can be done in a quick whip around e-mail each manager assigning a point to each item.
2. Add a financial value to the ramifications of not doing anything. This will keep you focused on the important things.
3. Rapidly move items through the process of decision making. There is no point in having older items take valuable strategic time from the group. Avoid analysis paralysis and keep things moving forward.
4. Ensure there are alternatives available for the team to make. Just as in a sales presentation give the members a choice of three things to choose and let them understand the reasons behind their choic
Welding rods get no respect. Out in the field I've seen guys throwing 50lb. rod cans from the truck onto the ground, torching cans open diagonally, beating the wrong end open with a chipping hammer and every other conceivable tool, and leaving open rod cans out in the open.Let's look at what's wrong with each…First and foremost, ALWAYS open the "right" end of the can. Some cans
3. Rapidly move items through the process of decision making. There is no point in having older items take valuable strategic time from the group. Avoid analysis paralysis and keep things moving forward.
4. Ensure there are alternatives available for the team to make. Just as in a sales presentation give the members a choice of three things to choose and let them understand the reasons behind their choices.
5. Develop a process for making strategic decisions. Let it be known and used to monitor and track outcomes.
6. Make sure that a decision once made is not reneged on by managers.
Ensuring that your strategic direction remains on track is important to an Organization. Following the above guidelines can be achieved by following the 'Best Year Yet' program.
For more information on time management read Stop Wasting Valuable Time by Michael C. Mankins, HBR September 2004 pp27 – 35. Read it to gain further insights.
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