An Adelaide-based strategy workshop facilitator's perspectives, experiences and odd ocker metaphors on all things strategy.
Strategic Planning Process Facilitator Troy Forrest talks about the skills and practices needed to develop strategy for 2021+ in a dynamic, unpredictable world.
Mining through the business lessons littering the scrapheap of 2020, Strategy & Leadership Consultant Troy Forrest draws on the words and quotes of others to try making sense of the strangest of years, with a view to refreshing perspectives, thoughts and focus for a bright start to 2021. A short listen for leaders and professionals of all ilk. Merry Christmas.
Navigating your business through & beyond COVID-19? Need to rework & recalibrate your strategic plan? Here are ten considerations you might want to make as you map the right roads ahead.
Hear different members of the Strategy Road Swarm of businesses share their professional "origin stories" - how they built their businesses, what they've tried and done, what worked, what failed and what's occupying their thinking now. No professed wisdom, just real stories. Image credit -Wolfgang Hasselmann, via Unsplash.
A new no-frills, straight-up short seminar on the fundamentals of selling from sales veteran Troy Forrest. troy@forrestworkshops.com.au to inquire about for your team
Are the returns on the things you're doing trending up, or down?
The role of the soft and the hard in professional life.
If you do it, do it for your goals.
When you've just had enough, you've nearly had enough.
Let clarity of ambition help you keep puffing when it gets hard.
Finding the balance between optimising for efficiency and hugging the payers.
When the your-mouth to their-ears communications torrent is turbulent.
The part of the gig beyond toting brochures and signing contracts.
Having the courage to down trou and bare your imperfect underside.
When the friction of network diversity is trumped by flow benefits.
The magic and necessity of weaving "both" into your strategy.
When you're working to lead, and the conga line isn't grabbing your hips... thought about why?
The quantum of opportunity (and why most won't touch it with a stick).
Do you have to aim to be leaders in something?
You get to choose the kind of content you produce - Yoghurt Cups? Or Durian?
The entry fee and ongoing subscription dues for self employment.
Finding the silver lining of business improvement when austerity measures kick in.
What it means to be a supporter and enabler of others.
The merits of investing time in something that'll be wrong from day 1.
The energy needed to hit critical payoff speed (and what to do when you don't).
Thinking beyond chromosomes and country of origin in your diversity approach.
When constant movement creates a sense of uncertainty and fear... how to shore it up.
Balancing learning from the past with crafting a new future.
Why this little-captured value has such a spreadable impact.
Determining whether you think you can or you can't.
The discipline of the successful professional and the teams that win.
Time management is picking and choosing what's in and what's tossed.
Setting goals you want to hit, not what looks good on paper.
Trimming frayed edges on otherwise brilliant customer service hems.
Giving up the ground when it's clear you're wrong.
The value of mates when you're travelling the hard, hot roads of professional progress.
Following a framework even when it's broken or imaginary.
When you can't help them, facilitating partnerships with those that can.
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