What is Your Two year Plan?

This is the best time to write your two year plan and beyond. I say two years because most people are wired for short-term thinking. Two years is short enough to see the finish line and long enough to create substance instead of quick fixes.
 
So what kind of results can you achieve with a 2 year plan instead of the quick fix approach? Here’s what colleague Linda Ferguson suggests:

• Cultural shifts over two years allow you to move with your markets

• Generate short term lifts in performance with measurable wins

• See additional ROI for training and coaching in results that are sustainable over longer periods

• Learning/training becomes attached to big audacious goals instead of putting out fires

• Business leaders have a unifying plan to invite & engage all staff in the creation of something better, more competitive, and more exciting

• Long term thinking gives a competitive edge when the competition is stuck in reaction mode

• Managers can focus on becoming authentic leaders and performance coaches instead of managing Chicken Little

• Two year plans allow for the integration of a Learning Culture where people naturally pursue personal growth anchored to the business

• Water cooler talk becomes “what’s working” and “what else can we create?”

Check out Malcom Gladwell’s new book, “Outliers” where he states that successful people “are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot.”

So what kind of advantages would you like over the next two years?

Thanks for reading and let us know how we can help create sustainable results for you with:

• High performance coaching; come to us through your company or directly for focused results

• Leadership & management training

•  Performance Conditioning for evolving your business with an integrated 2 year plan.

By Andrew Reid