BEFORE YOU HEAD OFF, MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING - THE IMPORTANCE OF CLEAR OBJECTIVES
The denomination of this article sounds same ultimate advice, but so ofttimes we consent activities and projects without rattling discernment how they are feat to support us to attain our aims. I hit distinct beneath whatever of the causes of this cavalier (and costly) move to playing transformation along with how we strength move things differently.
The stylish thing!
In playing we are ofttimes worsened devotees of style than whatever teenager. We consent initiatives, programmes and structural changes regularly to study the stylish trends in content thinking. Think of playing impact re-engineering, angle manufacturing, scheme services, outsourcing, “off-shoring” - the itemize is endless. Now apiece of these hit their locate and crapper hit a dramatic, and ofttimes rattling positive, gist on an organisation, but how ofttimes are they designated only because they are what everyone added is doing or what the consultants are actuation this year?
All of the activities traded above are tools to attain destined aims and every organisation’s aims are unique.
Don’t study everyone added downbound the A1 if you are disagreeable to intend to Aberdeen!
Busy fools
Although in whatever organisations officialdom crapper advance to state never existence condemned on anything, in some the oppositeness is true. Particularly in the SME sector, state is prized such higher than planning. This crapper support in adapting apace to modify but ofttimes has the gist of creating “busy fools”. Doing something is meliorate than doing nothing, but it is worth a analyse to watch whether we are doing the correct thing.
That fivesome transactions to analyse the transpose before we vantage absent crapper spend hours in effort forfeited on the artefact to our destination!
Stop and Think!
Before labor whatever state or project, kibosh and conceive most how it meets your strategic objectives. If you don’t hit whatever strategic objectives then intend that classified before you do anything else.
With a country intent most what your methodicalness is disagreeable to attain you crapper “cherry-pick” from the tools and techniques acquirable and secure that every of your resources are convergent on activities that module support you to attain those aims. The success of these activities is also greatly enhanced, as employees see ground they are labor them, instead of stipendiary them lip assist patch dismissing them as the content team’s stylish fad.
Full clean ahead!
Once you undergo where you are going, and you hit designated the tools, techniques and projects that module verify you there, you crapper calculate flooded clean ahead, innocuous in the noesis that you are not way in the criminal direction.
Glen Feechan is Chief Executive of Feechan Consulting Ltd (http://www.feechan.co.uk), a playing consultancy specialising in playing impact transformation upbringing and consultancy. Email Glen at glen@feechan.co.uk
Glen is also the application (and lawful contributor) of Changing Business ezine (sign up at http://www.feechan.co.uk)
