Idea 8: Set professional business goals
As you have seen, your strategic aims result from asking these questions:
- Where are we now?
- Where do we want to be in three or five years' time?
- What strengths and weaknesses do we have?
- How can we improve?
- Can we get to where we want to be?
Similar to setting personal goals/objectives, delineate your professional business goals/objectives (for your organization and, perhaps separately, for yourself at work):
- What are the key long-term goals/objectives?
- What are the five-year goals/objectives?
- What are the one-year goals/objectives?
Then plans and strategies have to be addressed, as in:
- Identifying obstacles and opportunities.
- Analyzing ways/means to achieve goals/objectives despite/because of those ...
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