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Ashland Global Holdings Has a Great Vision Statement but Could Turn Their Mission Statement Around - Literally

Ashland Global Holdings Has a Great Vision Statement but Could Turn Their Mission Statement Around – Literally

Reviewing the mission, vision and values statements of successful companies provides a look into how these organizations see their purpose through the road maps they have created for themselves to achieve such renown. The focus of this review of Guiding Statements is the chemical company, Ashland Global Holdings*.

Ashland currently ranks 658 on the Fortune 1,000 list, but if you filter for growth…

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Rite Aid has the Right Stuff when It Comes to Its Guiding Statements

Rite Aid has the Right Stuff when It Comes to Its Guiding Statements. Its Vision, Mission and Values statements are exemplary. Read why in my post.

As I review mission, vision and values statements of various companies, whether well known or not, I find a lot of great and not-so-great examples of how “Guiding Statements” should be both created and made accessible. The focus of this review of Guiding Statements is the drug store chain, Rite Aid*.

Rite Aid currently ranks 107 on the Fortune 500 list, but if you filter for growth in profits,…

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5 Movie Business Meeting Scenes from the 80s and 90s... and What We Learn from Them

5 Movie Business Meeting Scenes from the 80s and 90s… and What We Learn from Them

We tend to consider movies as pure entertainment. The reality, though, is that movies can provide wonderful teaching moments. This is true for business leaders and those involved in strategic planning as well.

Here are the 5 hilarious scenes from 80s and 90s movies that offer important lessons to be learned for all business leaders and meeting facilitators:

Gung Ho (1986)

Robocop (1987)

Back to…

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#Board meeting #Meeting Facilitator #Meeting leader #Movies #Strategic Planning

6 Leadership Lessons from the Dread Pirate Roberts

Ahoy, matey! Beware the ship flying the Jolly Roger, for ’tis the Dread Pirate Roberts who captains it, and he takes no prisoners if ye choose to resist!

Here are the six strategic planning lessons modeled by the Dread Pirate Roberts:

Set and measure personal goals

Align your business goals with your personal goals

Build your personal brand

Seek out and motivate new talent

Create a succession…

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5 Leadership Tips from the Dread Pirate Roberts

Ahoy, matey! Beware the ship flying the Jolly Roger, for ’tis the Dread Pirate Roberts who captains it, and he takes no prisoners if ye choose to resist!

Here are the five strategic planning lessons modeled by the Dread Pirate Roberts:

Set and measure personal goals

Align your business goals with your personal goals

Build your personal brand

Seek out and motivate new talent

Have a Contingency…

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Publication of Planning for Awesome: 7 Steps to Ensure Your Strategic Planning Session Turns out Awesome

I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest book:

Planning for Awesome: 7 Steps to Ensure Your Strategic Planning Session Turns out Awesome

Find it at http://bit.ly/planningforawesome

This is volume 1 of my Stress Less Strategic Planning series and is currently available only on Amazon in Kindle Edition.

What will you find in Planning for Awesome, you ask?

Follow the 7 steps I clearly…

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#Agenda #Book #Facilitator #Meetings #Strategic Planning

5 Employee Performance Tools Your Organization Needs to Stop Talking About

Leaders of businesses, nonprofits, government agencies and other organizations seem to be all about performance. Performance, performance, performance. After all, if your people don’t “do,” what benefit are they to your organization?

For decades, an emphasis on performance has solidified in organizational leadership the importance of performance measurement tools. “If you can’t measure it, you…

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#Employee Development #Executive Director #Leadership #Meetings #Nonprofit #Not-for-Profit #Performance #Performance Management #Tactics #Training

4 More Strategic Planning Leadership Lessons from the Life of US Grant-Part 2

The more I learn about Hyrum Ulysses Grant (aka Ulysses S. Grant, Unconditional Surrender Grant, General Grant and President Grant), the more I appreciate his many accomplishments, his unassuming and down-to-earth personality, and his personal integrity. Yes, he was prone to drunkenness between Civil War battles and when traveling away from home, but he was also honest and up front about his…

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#Core Values #Employee Development #Empowerment #Executive Director #Leadership #Meeting Facilitator #Meeting leader #Meetings #Strategic Planning #Tactics

The 5 Funniest Business Meetings from Movies in the 90's... and What We Learn from Them

The 5 Funniest Business Meetings from Movies in the 90’s… and What We Learn from Them

As mentioned in previous posts, I love movie quotes. Shared at the opportune time, with a recognizable voice, and targeted at an audience even somewhat familiar with what you are referring to, a movie quote can make more observations, teach more lessons and, more often than not, draw more laughs than anything else you might share in 30 or even 60 minutes. That is because a movie quote conjures…

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The Strategic Planning Meeting

If you have never been part of a strategic planning meeting, it may sound intimidating. Or you might approach attending one with expectations of battle cries and cannon fire.

If, on the other hand, you have been part of strategic planning meetings in the past, attending yet another may sound like a waste of time or, worse, akin to being cooked in a brazen bull.

It is a sad truth that too few of…

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#Core Values #Executive Director #Facilitation #Meeting Facilitator #Strategic Planning #Strategic Planning Meeting #Vision Statement

The Plan or the Planning Process? Which is the Question?

I am paraphrasing only a bit, but President Eisenhower said of the Allied plans for the invasion of continental Europe in WWII, which was in the works for over a year leading up to D-Day, that plans are useless (even irrelevant) but the process of planning is invaluable. In war, once the fighting begins, plans immediately become obsolete.

So too in business. Your organization should meet annually…

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The 7 R's of Strategic Planning Follow Up

The 7 R's of the Frequent Strategic Plan Evaluation

Published July 19, 2018

Remember the exultant feeling you and your board members experienced last year at the end of the strategic planning session? You came away from that one-, two- or possibly three-day experience with a euphoric optimism that your nonprofit was destined for greatness. And now, here you are, a year or so down the road, and you are wondering why so little has changed.

Strategy…

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#Board of Directors #Change management #Corporate Culture #Empowerment #Executive Director #Goals #Nonprofit #Not-for-Profit #Reports #Strategic Evaluation #Strategic Planning #Tactics

Best and Worst Case Scenarios with and without a Meeting Facilitator

Facilitator:

Noun

Someone who makes things easier

A person who moves a process or action forward

One who assists you in progressing

Literally, by definition, a facilitator will make your life easier and help your organization thrive in times of change and during planning sessions. Take your pick of any definition, or all three. Why would you NOT want to make your next strategic planning meeting…

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6 Strategic Planning and Leadership Lessons for Nonprofits from the Life of General US Grant-Part 1

I have been working my way through the audiobook, Grant, by Ron Chernow… all 38 CDs. It has been a fascinating look into the life and character of one of the most important and too often most maligned (though not always incorrectly) leaders in US history. If you enjoy a good biography and/or military history – which I certainly do – I highly recommend it.

I am not even to the part of the…

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#Board Chair #Board of Directors #Core Values #Corporate Culture #Executive Director #Leadership #Meeting Facilitator #Nonprofit #Not-for-Profit #Strategic Planning #Vision Statement

6 Clues from Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express to Help Nonprofits Solve the Mystery of Strategic Planning

6 Clues from Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express to Help Nonprofits Solve the Mystery of Strategic Planning

Watching movies has taken on a new aspect for me since blogging this year on what we might observe in various films and books about the application of strategic planning and leadership principles. Recently, I watched the latest version of Murder on the Orient Expresswith my wife and youngest boy (who loved it so much he went to the local public library the next day to check out the book). I will…

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#Board of Directors #Executive Director #Facilitation #Movies #Strategic Planning

1.7 Reasons Why You Need to Hold a Strategic Planning Session-Even If You Already Have A Good Mission Statement

Let’s assume you are among the minority of nonprofit agencies who have actually gone through a strategic planning session over the past year or two or even three. In that previous session, your leadership, board, volunteers, funders, and other community members may have worked with an independent facilitator to put together an amazing strategic plan that includes your mission statement, your…

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#Change #Change management #Leadership #Mission Statement #Strategic Evaluation #Strategic Planning

5 Common Diseases Manifested in Strategic Planning Meetings

5 Terrible Conditions Worries about Planning Meeting, and How Facilitators Eliminate Them

If you are or have been a director or board member for a nonprofit organization, you have likely considered having a strategic planning meeting. Chances are, you also thought of the many meetings you have attended over the years and remembered several that were anything but successful, and certainly not enjoyable. Consequently, in discussions about whether a 4- or 8- or 12-hour strategic planning…

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#Board Chair #Board of Directors #Executive Director #Facilitation #Meeting Facilitator #Nonprofit #Not-for-Profit #Plan #Strategic Planning

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