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Best Practices in Enterprise Strategic Management

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This article discusses using an agile strategy execution software tool for greater success and higher performance in tracking, managing and executing strategic initiatives. It also reinforces the importance of linking strategic tasks and cascading projects up and down the organization. With a flexible and scalable shared communications resource you can leverage buy-in and stay-in while tracking performance.

Discover Hidden Costs in Your Business

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Many companies respond to slow growth cycles with a knee-jerk reaction of cutting jobs as well as budgets. While this may be necessary, too often what has happened is that executive management first looks at the highest paid employees and offers them an early retirement package. They also look at advertising, training, and marketing budgets to see where else to trim expenses. 

10 Ways to Use Social Media to Engage Staff

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Social Media is a powerful tool for gaining feedback on initiatives from staff and other stakeholders. Create private groups to build an internal community, communicate initiatives and results, and inject fun into the workplace. Contests and rewards also help to engage people in fun ways. 

Employee Satisfaction Critical to Success

According to Matthew Kelly in his book The Dream Manager, "the great majority of people in the workplace today are actively disengaged. People don't feel connected to their work, the organizations they work in, or the people they work with." Companies need to find ways to reward and train employees to help them become the best they can be. In doing so, these workers stay longer and help the organization become the best it can be. With a shortage of available workers coming online in the next 10-20 years, it is ever more critical that companies start acting today to get the current generation trained and focused on helping the company achieve its future vision. Increasing employee satisfaction helps do this by improving employee engagement in organizational success.

Create a Strategic Plan for Your Life

Do you have a plan for your life? Have you thought about what you want to do in your Golden Years? Do you know if you're on track to accomplish those goals? Having a strategic plan for your life which you update each year will ensure you keep that long-term focus. This article walks you through five simple steps to create your Strategic Life Plan. Without a plan, life simply happens.