In the competitive world, the entire company's staff must be held accountable and MIGRATE to the same objectives. No organization can afford the luxury of not planning. Staff must not be scattered in their individual goals and implementation methods.

How can you plan effectively? MIGRATION coaches the coach (you) and your staff via this web site (or directly) to create a one-year Plan¹ over a two-day session so that you have a Plan for the immediate future and learn how to implement planning in later years.

Crisis

For the company in a crisis (such as near-bankruptcy or staff mutiny), a quick Plan must be rapidly formatted in one day. At that session you must arrive at a collective agreement on the steps forward over the critical next 3 to 6 months.

A once-a-year planning event encourages innovative ideas to emerge through the power of your team. It ensures you take the time to develop an action plan to turn those creative thoughts into new revenue streams. A Plan results in:

• Setting clear goals
• Creating your team's focus for the coming year
• Resolving challenges that have been hindering company performance
• Adapting to changes and opportunities in a volatile market
• Evaluating what did work, what didn't work and new ideas that can be put in place

Strategy development is woven around each of the Plan, Mission and Strategic Alignment Retreat, but coalesced during the Plan session.

For more details see also Planning, Strategy and Structure.

Structuring or re-structuring is best done as a consequence of planning. The right structure ensures that the Plan will unfold as designed. There are fundamentals to follow that prevents your structure from working against itself. See also Planning, Strategy and Structure.

The process leads your team through a direct, logical, innovative, team-oriented development of the planning process consisting of:

• Expectations of your Plan
• The 20 steps of "Where are we?" "Where do we want to go?" and "How are we going to get there?"
• The role of the leader, the CFO and each staff member in the planning process
• Review of Mission
• Setting strategic directions
• Discovering unique competitive advantages
• Crafting a Mini-Plan for each group within the company
• Formulating an overall Plan, one that has buy-in throughout the organization
• Ensuring a structure that will enhance the strategy and planning to work as anticipated
• Preparing for future years of planning
• A 20 to 40-page action Plan for the next 12 months
• Tweaking of the Plan semi-annually
• Monitoring the Plan over the subsequent 6 months

The following pages will permit you to develop the process on your own.

Click here to learn what components are necessary for your own successful Plan session.

However, if you choose to have MIGRATION assist you directly, you would receive: