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Suggest You - Business Vision and Purpose - Seeing the Future
Do you take for granted the fact that your friends and colleagues and associates in the business community around you know what your company really does? I certainly have in the past, and everyday I’m amazed by how little people actually know about my company, Cube Management, and what we actually do.Just this morning I was having breakfast with a long-term associate of mine and we were just talking personally about our work and our personal life, etc, and we got into a discussion about our businesses, and we quickly realized how little we knew about each others companies and before I knew it we were talking about doing business together. Specifically this individual has a need to recruit a marketing person and they had no idea that we were in the business of supplying top talent in sales and marketi
While there are many different "mind mapping" systems, the basic process involves expanding on ideas using key words and branches. The objective is to make a complex or thorny topic easier to understand, explore, or remember.
Create a simple mind map:
A. Draw a circle in the middle of a blank sheet of paper and write a project, goal, dream or idea in the center of the circle
B. Draw lines (spokes or branches) radiating out from the central circle
C. Write down thoughts/ideas that relate to the central circle at the end of each spoke and circle them
D. From each of the new circles repeat steps B-C, continuing out as far as you feel comfortable
Next, translate the ideas to an outline form and try to create some action steps based on your thinking.
SCENARIO PLANNING/FUTURE MAPPING
Scenario planning tools have been around for decades and are useful to help anticipate change, predict the elements of different scenarios and develop strategies to be able to shape each possible future.
Today there are many models that take scenario planning to the next level.
Many marketers spend a lot of time and money in the production of the mail piece itself and the actual mailing of the piece. You can have a great product and an attractive mail piece, but if you do not have the proper target market all of your efforts have gone to waste.The mailing list is a key component in any direct marketing campaign. You should not compromise your marketing efforts by cutting corners on the purchase of your mailing lists. When you start your MLM campaign you want to use the best mailing lists possible.A credible mailing list company should offer 100% deliverability with their lists. For every returned name there should be a fair replacement policy in place.Study your product or offer and determine your best target.• Who would want or need to purchase my produc
ART AND SCIENCE
It is not a surprise that visual thinking plays an important role in the creative process; what many people don't realize is the role that creative thinking plays in the strategic thinking and planning process.
Henry Mintzberg in "The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning" makes a clear distinction between the skills necessary for strategic thinking and the skills needed for planning. He explains that planning involves the left side of the brain with a need for logic, reasoning, linear and rational thinking. Strategic thinking, on the other hand, requires the ability to examine new possibilities involving the right brain. Strategic thinking entails tasks such as dealing with large chunks of information, and the ability to pull pieces together into a big picture. Planning involves words and numbers and strategic thinking requires patterns and visual images.
LINKS
In "Strategic Thinking and The New Science," T. Irene Sanders tells us that "strategic thinking has two major components: insight about the present and foresight about the future." Visual thinking can help us link our intuitive sense of events in the world with our intellectual understanding.
Although there are different viewpoints, most current scientific research shows that while no one is totally left-brained or right-brained, most people have a distinct dominance on one side or the other.
In tasks such as the development of a long-range strategy, where thinking needs to come from both sides of the brain, it is important to find ways to draw out both our imagination and our analytic abilities. Visual based techniques can help us link possibility thinking, intuition, and current realities.
VISUALIZATION
A vision can be a mental picture of an "ideal" organization, relationship or life. Studies have shown that we are more likely to reach an objective if we can see it and can imagine the steps to reach it. Visioning is a common strategy in sports. Olympic skaters imagine themselves going through the steps and landing a perfect jump.
Visual thinkers create pictures or models of a problem in their mind, play with the visual, move it around, refine it, and use it to raise more questions. A drawing or model helps push thinking further. Albert Einstein imagined himself traveling through the universe as a "man in a box" on a ray of light. This vision helped him develop the theory of general relativity.
TOOLS and TECHNIQUES
In a strategic planning process, there are four fundamental questions: "Where are you now?" Where are you going?" Where do you want to be?" and "How are you going to get there?"
Visual ways of addressing these types of questions help the mind "to see." Seeing can help identify issues and opportunities, organize information, prioritize, clarify thinking, and set goals on a personal and/or organizational level.
Try out one of the following exercises:
Envision an article written in the future about you or your company. Record your desired future in a diagram, sketch, model, or in a photographic montage. In "The Artist's Way," Julia Cameron suggests creating collages or journals to help develop ideas. Imagine yourself receiving an award for a major accomplishment. What is the award for? What has been accomplished? More complex visual diagramming techniques can reveal patterns, interrelationships and interdependencies, stimulate creative thinking and enable new ideas and innovations. When working with groups of people, visual tools can help to foster creative dialogue, create perspective shifts and help to record ideas.
MIND MAPPING
Mind Mapping is a powerful technique that can help in developing a strategy, or expand thinking on a subject. The 'Map' uses words, lines, logic, colors, images, and links to draw out associations and stimulate thinking. The technique works as well in large group brainstorming sessions, as it does one-on-one with a coach.
While there are many different "mind mapping" systems, the basic process involves expanding on ideas using key words and branches. The objective is to make a complex or thorny topic easier to understand, explore, or remember.
Create a simple mind map:
A. Draw a circle in the middle of a blank sheet of paper and write a project, goal, dream or idea in the center of the circle
B. Draw lines (spokes or branches) radiating out from the central circle
C. Write down thoughts/ideas that relate to the central circle at the end of each spoke and circle them
D. From each of the new circles repeat steps B-C, continuing out as far as you feel comfortable
Next, translate the ideas to an outline form and try to create some action steps based on your thinking.
SCENARIO PLANNING/FUTURE MAPPING
Scenario planning tools have been around for decades and are useful to help anticipate change, predict the elements of different scenarios and develop strategies to be able to shape each possible future.
Today there are many models that take scenario planning to the next level.
Got an important presentation or speech to make? No problem…here are some ways to make sure they get your message and want you back.1) Make sure you give your audience some personal information about you. Whether you think so or not, your audience is interested in you. This is especially important if you are trying to get a group to take action, such as buy something. They want to relate to you. Personal information is the only way to build that relationship.2) Be careful with your humor. Stay away from “I’m reminded of the story…” and aim towards more subtle, self-deprecating humor. Show that you are human with a brief anecdote or story if you like, but try to avoid coming across as Jay Leno.3) Tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, and them tell them what you told t
LINKS
In "Strategic Thinking and The New Science," T. Irene Sanders tells us that "strategic thinking has two major components: insight about the present and foresight about the future." Visual thinking can help us link our intuitive sense of events in the world with our intellectual understanding.
Although there are different viewpoints, most current scientific research shows that while no one is totally left-brained or right-brained, most people have a distinct dominance on one side or the other.
In tasks such as the development of a long-range strategy, where thinking needs to come from both sides of the brain, it is important to find ways to draw out both our imagination and our analytic abilities. Visual based techniques can help us link possibility thinking, intuition, and current realities.
VISUALIZATION
A vision can be a mental picture of an "ideal" organization, relationship or life. Studies have shown that we are more likely to reach an objective if we can see it and can imagine the steps to reach it. Visioning is a common strategy in sports. Olympic skaters imagine themselves going through the steps and landing a perfect jump.
Visual thinkers create pictures or models of a problem in their mind, play with the visual, move it around, refine it, and use it to raise more questions. A drawing or model helps push thinking further. Albert Einstein imagined himself traveling through the universe as a "man in a box" on a ray of light. This vision helped him develop the theory of general relativity.
TOOLS and TECHNIQUES
In a strategic planning process, there are four fundamental questions: "Where are you now?" Where are you going?" Where do you want to be?" and "How are you going to get there?"
Visual ways of addressing these types of questions help the mind "to see." Seeing can help identify issues and opportunities, organize information, prioritize, clarify thinking, and set goals on a personal and/or organizational level.
Try out one of the following exercises:
Envision an article written in the future about you or your company. Record your desired future in a diagram, sketch, model, or in a photographic montage. In "The Artist's Way," Julia Cameron suggests creating collages or journals to help develop ideas. Imagine yourself receiving an award for a major accomplishment. What is the award for? What has been accomplished? More complex visual diagramming techniques can reveal patterns, interrelationships and interdependencies, stimulate creative thinking and enable new ideas and innovations. When working with groups of people, visual tools can help to foster creative dialogue, create perspective shifts and help to record ideas.
MIND MAPPING
Mind Mapping is a powerful technique that can help in developing a strategy, or expand thinking on a subject. The 'Map' uses words, lines, logic, colors, images, and links to draw out associations and stimulate thinking. The technique works as well in large group brainstorming sessions, as it does one-on-one with a coach.
While there are many different "mind mapping" systems, the basic process involves expanding on ideas using key words and branches. The objective is to make a complex or thorny topic easier to understand, explore, or remember.
Create a simple mind map:
A. Draw a circle in the middle of a blank sheet of paper and write a project, goal, dream or idea in the center of the circle
B. Draw lines (spokes or branches) radiating out from the central circle
C. Write down thoughts/ideas that relate to the central circle at the end of each spoke and circle them
D. From each of the new circles repeat steps B-C, continuing out as far as you feel comfortable
Next, translate the ideas to an outline form and try to create some action steps based on your thinking.
SCENARIO PLANNING/FUTURE MAPPING
Scenario planning tools have been around for decades and are useful to help anticipate change, predict the elements of different scenarios and develop strategies to be able to shape each possible future.
Today there are many models that take scenario planning to the next level.
Factoring is selling invoices to receive your money at the moment, instead of waiting for say, two to three months. That’s why it is one of the most important finance management tools - especially for a small company that does not create debt. Factoring does not require you to give up any ownership in your company.For carrying out any operation, finance is required. So, necessary finance is to be raised, allocated and controlled for the effective execution of any function. Success or failure of the firm as such depends on how effectively the finance part is undertaken.The finance function is comprised of the determining and raising of necessary funds from appropriate sources and their proper allocation and control. The aim is to attain the enterprise objective of wealth maximization. The wealth o
VISUALIZATION
A vision can be a mental picture of an "ideal" organization, relationship or life. Studies have shown that we are more likely to reach an objective if we can see it and can imagine the steps to reach it. Visioning is a common strategy in sports. Olympic skaters imagine themselves going through the steps and landing a perfect jump.
Visual thinkers create pictures or models of a problem in their mind, play with the visual, move it around, refine it, and use it to raise more questions. A drawing or model helps push thinking further. Albert Einstein imagined himself traveling through the universe as a "man in a box" on a ray of light. This vision helped him develop the theory of general relativity.
TOOLS and TECHNIQUES
In a strategic planning process, there are four fundamental questions: "Where are you now?" Where are you going?" Where do you want to be?" and "How are you going to get there?"
Visual ways of addressing these types of questions help the mind "to see." Seeing can help identify issues and opportunities, organize information, prioritize, clarify thinking, and set goals on a personal and/or organizational level.
Try out one of the following exercises:
Envision an article written in the future about you or your company. Record your desired future in a diagram, sketch, model, or in a photographic montage. In "The Artist's Way," Julia Cameron suggests creating collages or journals to help develop ideas. Imagine yourself receiving an award for a major accomplishment. What is the award for? What has been accomplished? More complex visual diagramming techniques can reveal patterns, interrelationships and interdependencies, stimulate creative thinking and enable new ideas and innovations. When working with groups of people, visual tools can help to foster creative dialogue, create perspective shifts and help to record ideas.
MIND MAPPING
Mind Mapping is a powerful technique that can help in developing a strategy, or expand thinking on a subject. The 'Map' uses words, lines, logic, colors, images, and links to draw out associations and stimulate thinking. The technique works as well in large group brainstorming sessions, as it does one-on-one with a coach.
While there are many different "mind mapping" systems, the basic process involves expanding on ideas using key words and branches. The objective is to make a complex or thorny topic easier to understand, explore, or remember.
Create a simple mind map:
A. Draw a circle in the middle of a blank sheet of paper and write a project, goal, dream or idea in the center of the circle
B. Draw lines (spokes or branches) radiating out from the central circle
C. Write down thoughts/ideas that relate to the central circle at the end of each spoke and circle them
D. From each of the new circles repeat steps B-C, continuing out as far as you feel comfortable
Next, translate the ideas to an outline form and try to create some action steps based on your thinking.
SCENARIO PLANNING/FUTURE MAPPING
Scenario planning tools have been around for decades and are useful to help anticipate change, predict the elements of different scenarios and develop strategies to be able to shape each possible future.
Today there are many models that take scenario planning to the next level.
Promotional merchandise is available in many formats, from badges, pens and keyrings to clothing, mugs and umbrellas, all of which are usually imprinted with a company's name, logo or message. When used imaginatively to develop solutions to marketing challenges, promotional merchandise can help drive your business by increasing brand awareness, generating trade show traffic, improving employee retention and more.The impact on your brand image can be significant with recipients of well-targeted promotional merchandise gaining a more positive overall image of your business. As a result, they are more likely to recommend your business to others and give you their custom. Promotional merchandise can also have a significant effect on increasing trade show traffic. A US survey* found that 71.6% of trade show
Try out one of the following exercises:
Envision an article written in the future about you or your company. Record your desired future in a diagram, sketch, model, or in a photographic montage. In "The Artist's Way," Julia Cameron suggests creating collages or journals to help develop ideas. Imagine yourself receiving an award for a major accomplishment. What is the award for? What has been accomplished? More complex visual diagramming techniques can reveal patterns, interrelationships and interdependencies, stimulate creative thinking and enable new ideas and innovations. When working with groups of people, visual tools can help to foster creative dialogue, create perspective shifts and help to record ideas.
MIND MAPPING
Mind Mapping is a powerful technique that can help in developing a strategy, or expand thinking on a subject. The 'Map' uses words, lines, logic, colors, images, and links to draw out associations and stimulate thinking. The technique works as well in large group brainstorming sessions, as it does one-on-one with a coach.
While there are many different "mind mapping" systems, the basic process involves expanding on ideas using key words and branches. The objective is to make a complex or thorny topic easier to understand, explore, or remember.
Create a simple mind map:
A. Draw a circle in the middle of a blank sheet of paper and write a project, goal, dream or idea in the center of the circle
B. Draw lines (spokes or branches) radiating out from the central circle
C. Write down thoughts/ideas that relate to the central circle at the end of each spoke and circle them
D. From each of the new circles repeat steps B-C, continuing out as far as you feel comfortable
Next, translate the ideas to an outline form and try to create some action steps based on your thinking.
SCENARIO PLANNING/FUTURE MAPPING
Scenario planning tools have been around for decades and are useful to help anticipate change, predict the elements of different scenarios and develop strategies to be able to shape each possible future.
Today there are many models that take scenario planning to the next level.
To prepare for our segments, Milana asked us to reveal in no-holds barred fashion, a mindstream of the 3 most important trends, opportunities and landmines we could foresee for professional coaches in 2007, including how each is likely to impact a coach's business (that's you!), and what I'm doing about the predictions myself.Here are the promised notes from the predictions I made, for those who missed the call or prefer reading over listening...Coaching Prediction #1: Expect to see lots more coaching jobs.By that I don’t mean jobs that involve coaching skills, but jobs where coaching is the core deliverable. This will happen at three levels:(1) the Executive level - this is already happening and there will be many more of these.(2) the non-Executive level - these coaching jo
While there are many different "mind mapping" systems, the basic process involves expanding on ideas using key words and branches. The objective is to make a complex or thorny topic easier to understand, explore, or remember.
Create a simple mind map:
A. Draw a circle in the middle of a blank sheet of paper and write a project, goal, dream or idea in the center of the circle
B. Draw lines (spokes or branches) radiating out from the central circle
C. Write down thoughts/ideas that relate to the central circle at the end of each spoke and circle them
D. From each of the new circles repeat steps B-C, continuing out as far as you feel comfortable
Next, translate the ideas to an outline form and try to create some action steps based on your thinking.
SCENARIO PLANNING/FUTURE MAPPING
Scenario planning tools have been around for decades and are useful to help anticipate change, predict the elements of different scenarios and develop strategies to be able to shape each possible future.
Today there are many models that take scenario planning to the next level. Dr. Canton's "Future Mapping" tool makes the distinction between forecasting (getting advance information about the future based on analysis of existing conditions and trends) and foresight (the ability to see what is emerging). The tool creates scenarios based on key change drivers, trends and "forces that can shape the future of an enterprise, market, industry, society or civilization." Read more about Future Mapping at: http://www.globalfuturist.com/chapter.php
SUPPORT
Visual tools and techniques are the most effective when they are set in the right framework. One of the keys to good visioning is asking good questions. The combination of questioning and visual techniques can bring out the "creative thinker" in even the most task-oriented person. Are you focused on the right questions?
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