Why Your Business Needs a Lean Strategic Planning System™ In Order To Scale
Strategic planning is the backbone of consistently, effectively, and predictably achieving your goals and financial targets in your business, but most planning systems are far too complex, time intensive, and restrictive for a dynamic small to mid-sized business.
The Lean Strategic Planning System™ is a proven and highly effective planning and goal achievement system that balances structure with flexibility.
It is designed specifically for scaling small to mid-sized businesses who need much more than a personal productivity system but much less than the resource intensive and rigid planning systems used by most large-scale organizations.
It connects vision to execution and effectively integrates every facet of your business, from behind-the-scenes projects, to forward-facing marketing campaigns, to operational activities to run the business and deliver an exceptional program, service, and client experience.
Because the reality is that in a scaling business, people wear multiple hats, things move and change rapidly, and there is always more you could do than resources available...
You need a planning framework that addresses this reality instead of fighting against it.
Lean Strategic Planning gives you the clarity, confidence, and visibility that your team is working on the right things at the right time to bring your biggest goals to reality in the most simple, streamlined, and accelerated way.
Strategic planning is the bridge between possibility and probability.
It is critical when you want to scale sustainably.
If this sounds like exactly what you've been looking for...
There are 2 Options for Implementing the Lean Strategic Planning System
1.
We'll Implement It For You
Whether you want to implement our full Lean Scaling System or laser focus on Lean Strategic Planning, we'll partner with you to do so
2.
We'll Train & Certify Your Team to Implement It
We offer 2 expert certification programs for operational leaders that include our Lean Strategic Planning System
Curious what's included in the system?
Here's a sneak peek inside the Lean Strategic Planning System
It includes a complete ecosystem with trainings, templates, toolkits, and meeting cadences to simplify implementation and train your team, which we customize based on your unique needs.
The Lean Strategic Planning System addresses:
- Connecting Vision to Execution
- Achieving Goals and Targets
- Building Backlogs and Strategic Roadmaps
- Leveraging 90 Day Planning Cycles
- Looking Back for a Better Path Forward
- Strategic Planning Cadences That Drive the Best Results
- Implementing Your Project / Work Management System
- Capacity-Based Planning to Avoid Team Burnout
- KPIs, Success Measures, and Dashboards
- Adopting a Culture of Continuous Improvement
- Lean Productivity Techniques
The backbone of every system is based on the 4 pillars of the Lean Out Method - Context, Clarity, Commitment, and Kaizen
Here are the business questions that the Lean Strategic Planning System answers:
- Context:
- What are the long term and short term vision and goals for the business?
- What is the right business model based on our vision, goals, and target market?
- Clarity:
- How can I have confidence we are working on the right things at the right time?
- How do I have insight into what everyone is working on?
- When and how should we do our planning as a team and individually?
- Commitment:
- What project management tool do we commit to using as a team?
- How do I push through mindset challenges and limiting beliefs?
- How can we be as productive and efficient as possible?
- Kaizen:
- What should we measure?
- How can we optimize our results?
- How can we review our results to continuously improve and ensure we are working on the highest impact things?
"Overall, it's been a tremendous experience for me, and I feel so much more confident.
I am 100% more focused... No more unfinished projects. No more confusion for me about what should be a priority in my business. I'm achieving the vision for my business and I'm working in my zone of genius, and I am having a lot more fun and enjoying what I love to do because I'm not spinning my wheels anymore.
I have become more profitable and who doesn't love that! While the profitability is amazing, I'm definitely loving how I am working smarter and not harder. I've cleared away the overwhelm and the exhaustion."
Get Started with Our 90-Day Planner
Not ready for support yet?
You can get started on your own with our 90-day Lean Out Planner.
The Lean Strategic Planning System is one of 9 interconnected engines that comprise the Lean Scaling System™.
Interested in implementing the full Lean Scaling System and building out your Lean Strategic Planning System as part of it? Smart move!