Mind Mapping Yourself Into Focus

Mind mapping can seem like such a disorderly process. You pull out a big sheet of paper, get the markers rounded up, and start writing, drawing circles and lines in all directions. How can this help with focus?

Planning To Manage Time Or Managing Time To Plan?

Isn't the year flying by? Have you done all the things you were going to do? So where did it go wrong, already? Or is just that so far the year has been busy and you will implement the changes next month. (The great thing about that sort of planning is that you are usually dead right, you will implement it next month and it has been next month for the last X years!) Or is it simply that it will be ok when you can just find the time.

Corporate Data Backup a Must in Today's Business World

In today's fast-paced and cutthroat business world, the loss of vital business documents can mean ruin and disaster for any company. Remote online backup is the most practical and cost effective way for businesses to ensure the protection of such documents.

Execution and Executability

Robert Bradford discusses the three basic steps to improving execution of your strategic plan.

Understanding Why Clients and Customers Leave

Have you ever wondered why your clients/customer/patients stopped doing business with you? The reasons are surprising and eye opening! The most important thing is you can get the large majority of them back. In fact many of them want to come back.

Align Employees With Your Strategic Plan - Five Quick Steps

5 quick ways to improve the alignment between your employees and your strategy from Robert Bradford, author of Simplified Strategic Planning.

Offshoring - Are The Savings Worth The Cost

The low cost of labor in many foreign countries makes expanding operations outside the US an attractive option, but is it as great a deal as you might think? Here are just a few things to consider before expanding overseas.

Tips for Better Strategic Planning in the Smaller Company

Robert Bradford offers 8 solid tips for better strategic planning in smaller companies with a limited management staff and less than 50 employees, based on 20 years of experience doing strategic planning.

Does Your Strategic Plan Include a Proven Goal Setting Process?

Strategic planning is corrals a lot of information and then develops strategies to out last and out survive the competition. Goals are part of any executable plan and there should be a proven goal setting process to expedite the execution of your strategic plan.

Strategic Planning - Pitfalls in Implementation

In our strategic planning work, we often work with companies who have tried strategic planning before. Almost inevitably, the companies we meet were disappointed in the results they got before using Simplified Strategic Planning.

Home Based Tutoring Business

While professors and those with highly-regarded degrees are often top picks for tutors, expertise doesn’t necessarily guarantee patience with struggling pupils and applications of commendable teaching methods. Those who have backgrounds in child care, experience working with special education students, or even patient moms who have certainly put their time in helping their children with after school homework sessions would also be exceptional candidates for establishing a home based tutoring business.

Strategic Planning Reinforces Possibility Thinking

Strategic planning is all about the strategy involved in who does what by when. How does your strategic planning efforts reinforce possibility thinking?

Strategic Planning - Who Is Missing from Your C Level Executive Team

Do you think you have everyone that you need on your C Level Executive Team in developing a strategic plan? The answer to this question may surprise you.