LINE OF SIGHT - WILLIAM EASTMAN

Introduction
One theme consistent in Season 3 is the station's becoming your CGO - Chief Growth Officer for Hire, the underlying role of the Network. All of my shows: Growth Community, Building in Front of You, Your MLM Empire, Economics for Owners, the Self Managing Organization, and Creating a Consulting Business - everything centers on how to use the IBGR Network for business success. 

​Our relationship with the listening audience of entrepreneurs and owners: 

• Provide INSIGHTS that are useful
• Provide TOOLS that work
• Provide RESOURCES that saves time and money
• Make a FINANCIAL impact on the business 

That is what is meant by Looking at IBGR as your CGO - your virtual Chief Growth Officer.

Last week we tackled Clarity on Your End Game. It was to bring into focus where this business is headed and does it have a future after you and if it does - what is it. This week we make the End Game into a Game Plan and convert an aspiration into daily action.

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Objectives - The WHY
If you can't tell, I am excited about the possibility of creating a Self Managing Organization. Imagine having a very successful business that requires minimal but critical participation from you? I can!

Today we are splicing our DNA into the skeleton of the business by building its core elements. Your End Game in this activity is to achieve Vertical Alignment - everybody inside understands what the business is trying to achieve, understands how they contribute, and know it will determine how they led, managed, and compensated.

Key Issues - Owner Perspective:

1. How do I turn my aspiration for a Self Managing Organization into a reality?

What You Need to Know - The WHAT​

• Initiatives, Goals, and Objectives
• Business Planning
• Vertical Alignment

What You Need to Do​​ - The HOW

1. The Basic's of Business Planning
   1. Strategic Initiatives: an investment of resources dedicated to accomplish an organizational aspiration. It is based on an analysis of the market to determine long-term opportunities & threats, and short term impact on the businesses strengths & weaknesses. It needs to provide enough information to create goals (results) and objectives (activities) required to execute the Initiative.
      1. Intention - a description of the end result required over a specified period of time;
      2. Measures - how the end result will be measured;
      3. Targets - describe the success level;
      4. Potential Goals - a list potential business goals required to achieve the desired result.
   2. Goals: are based on identified Strategic Initiatives to clarify intended results, serve as the basis of Business Objectives, and provide the backbone of a yearly or stage based plan.​
      1. Intention - a description of the end result required over a specified period of time;
      2. Measures - how the end result will be measured;
      3. Targets - describe the success level;
      4. Potential Objectives - a list potential business objectives required to achieve the desired result.
   3. Objectives: are based on Business Goals to detail activities required to achieve results and provide the implementation steps of a yearly or stage based plan.​
      1. Intention: a description of the activity required over a specified period of time;
      2. Measures: how the activity will be measured;
      3. Targets: describe the success level.
2. Creating the Plan
   1. Business Plan: calendar based.
   2. Growth Plan: stage of growth based.
3. Getting Everyone Onboard & Contributing
   1. Creating the Plan: Owner & Management Team if it exists.
   2. Cascading the Plan: Managers & Supervisor.
   3. Rolling Up Feedback on the Plan: front line, supervision, and management
   4. Finalizing the Plan: owner, Managers, Supervisors, Front Line Employees.

We are your single, one stop source for business success, period, end of story.

1. ​Listen to the Economics for Owners Series 
2. JOIN the Community of Commerce - A Network of Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs
3. Show Up Next week

Make sure you leave some thoughts in the comment section below. I am interested in continuing the conversation.

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