The Consultant School

11: Planning for Transformation


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How intentional do you want to be for creating your future? And are you aware that the more intentional you are, the more responsible you have to become? Today, we continue to move through the Organizational Transformation Model (OTM) that Ray has developed over many years of working with organizational and personal transformation. 

In today's episode, we will be discussing the element of planning. Ray will be giving us an overview of planning and he will talk to us about the connection between planning and transformation. He will also share some stories with us about the lessons he has learned along the way about the importance of planning. 

Show Highlights:

  • What planning has to do with transformation.
  • What Ray has come to learn about planning.
  • Planning is critical for you to be able to achieve what you seek.
  •  Learning from Elise Boulding about the power of vision, back in the early '80s.
  • Seeing a pathway to the future from a visionary perspective, as a basis for your plans.
  • Ray gives an example of using a visionary pathway to the future as a basis for planning.
  • Integrating vision work into long-range planning.
  • Ray has learned that planning is probably one of the most powerful intervention tools and it engages people to the point of ownership of the vision.
  • The four aspects of planning.
  • Our goals give us direction.
  • Identifying the critical objectives of your goals.
  • Assessing, re-assessing, and aligning how you are operating.
  • Ray talks about one of the great mistakes that are made in organizational life.
  • Employee engagement in the planning process is essential.
  • The importance of evaluating and celebrating progress.
  • The benefits of drawing everyone in with the different elements of planning.
  • Creating a culture of learning in organizations. 
  • Learning comes out of planning. 
  • Ray explains why he has amended the notion of living in the first year of your plan to living in the first 90 to 180 days of your plan.
  • Choosing to be intentional means having to be responsible.

 

Links:

Ray's website: https://thegenysysgroup.com/

Amy's website: www.theartofpoweringdown.com 

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