Action Planning
Gary Brown MBA, P. Eng
FocalPoint Business Coach
Contact Info:
519-279-4449
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www.fsainc.ca
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Work
Email
Website
Action Planning Process
Assess/Reassess
Goal Setting
Measure the results
Get Started. Keep Going!
Action Planning
Implementation
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Goal Setting Considerations
• Company vision and values
• Differentiation
• What single skill will have the biggest impact?
• What is the most valuable use of your time?
• Is a goal needed to avoid some outcome?
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Goal Primer
•10 goals
• First person
• Present tense
• Positive statements
• Active verbs
• Review frequently
• WRITE THEM DOWN
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Action Planning Process
Assess/Reassess
Goal Setting
Measure the results
Get Started. Keep Going!
Action Planning
Implementation
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Quiet on the set. ACTION !
“action without planning is the cause of
every failure”
management consultant Peter Drucker
“vision without action is a dream. Action
without vision is a nightmare”
Japanese proverb
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Action Step Considerations
• 80/20 rule
• Zero based thinking
• Time management
• more
• less
• new
• stop
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Action Step Considerations
•Priorities
• urgent & important
• important, but not urgent
• urgent, but not important
• neither urgent nor important
• Be persistent - persevere
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Overcoming Obstacles
Biggest Obstacles: Me, Me, Me
• Fear of failure
• Fear of rejection
• Doubt
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Overcoming Obstacles
Strategies to Overcome:
• identify personal constraints
• courage & confidence via skill & knowledge
• top were on the bottom
• mimic success
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Business Metrics
Measure … Measure …
Inputs
Process
Key Performance
Indicators
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Measure
Outputs
Key Result
Indicators
Action Plan Summary
Assess/Reassess
- Revise as necessary
Goal Setting
- Biggest impact?
Be clear about your goals.
Flexible about your process
Action Plan
- Right actions
- Right sequence
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Measure the results
- Key Result Indicators
- Key Performance
Indicators
Implementation
- Take action
- Keep going
- Overcome obstacles