Get into Action

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore

Planning is good. But planning is not sufficient to get something done. You and your team have to actually do it, and you all have to actually choose to keep doing it.

When we facilitate strategic planning for a company, we help the planners get the information and develop their strategic goals, and then we help them develop a process to actually DO it. Too many strategic plans just sit in a binder in the C-suite and are not implemented. It helps to break the big goal into specific tasks and assign individuals to do those portions. Schedule deadlines and check-ins when you assign the tasks. Do the same for yourself—actually start, and find ways to hold yourself accountable and to stay motivated to continue to make progress. Celebrate successes and milestones, and reward people for their extra efforts.

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