An engaged workforce can bring positive change to the whole organization by lowering turnover rates and increasing employee involvement in the community.
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Take a look at the goals in the following table. Do you see how the wording of the first three goals has a different style and format than the last three goals?
I organized the table to highlight two different types of goals that you’ll want to consider including in your plan. The first three goals listed are “results” goals and focus on a numerical result. The last three goals are “process” goals and lead to the completion of a plan, process, or system.
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How Software Catalyzes Your Strategic Planning Success: From Eric Ryan's Upcoming Book
For the first decade-plus of my consulting career, I helped our customers capture and track their strategic plans in Microsoft Word and Excel documents. That worked fine.
However, Word- and Excel-based plans were fairly static and didn’t actively engage teams to take any action. Plus, not everyone felt comfortable using Excel, and the plans were avoided as a result.
I had a nagging thought that there must be a better way.
