With the right business plan, 2015 could be your best year yet.
After the clock strikes 12 AM on December 31st to begin the New Year, the clock then tics into 2015. How are you going to move forward beyond your 2014 performance and goals? New opportunities await you. There are a limitless number of ways in which an individual, team or an entire organization can approach the innovation process. There’s no one-size-fits-all formula.
Every year millions of people put out their New Year’s resolutions just to break them before the month of January is over. For 2015, write down your resolutions and stick with them for moving your leadership and business forward.
Working On Your Business/Working in Your Business
Typically, breakthroughs take place due to a breakdown either with any of the following: Your People, Processes or Systems. Your specific policies and rules most likely need to be re-evaluated and changed for transforming your business from “ordinary” to “extraordinary”.
Ask yourself, “What’s Working, What’s Working Well, What’s Not Working, and What’s Working Very Well?” Here is where you need to start to evaluate your organization. From here re-assess your employees for their strengths, skills, and talent. Most if not all of your have the hidden talent they have not demonstrated because they are not empowered for engagement.
Simplify
Gaining momentum starts by getting buy-in from all employees. Breakthroughs create shifts that put you in a greater state of consciousness. It can take place when you work at something for a specific period or when you find a new perspective from looking at the same situation.
Empowerment: Empower your employees and have them work with an “entrepreneurial” mindset. Give your employees some responsibilities that they will feel proud and take pride in. These include: (1) Enable your employees to make decisions without having them to go to their supervisor; (2) Involve your employees as they take responsibility toward improving the way things get done; and (3) Encourage your employees to take on more of an active role in the tasks they are completing. (At this same time, your managers will have more time to work on other matters regarding their skills, abilities, and talents).
Focus on the Impossible Being Possible
“Try improbable combinations, foster frequent brainstorming, & then take those new ideas, test them & put them to work.” – Paul Sloane
Achieving your goals is first and foremost to creating and producing the breakthrough results you want and need. In making the impossible possible, you demonstrate that your leadership can get done what needs to get done. Doing things you believe to be impossible is a constant theme in your organizational culture. Be the catalyst that impacts your organization and deliver results that challenge the impossible.
Challenge the Impossible and create the possibilities where you can produce the breakthrough results to move you beyond your expectation for success.
Integrate New Thinking into Your Business
Implementing a new way you do business is not just changing business strategies. It has a lot more to do with the mindset and critical thinking of your employees. This helps as your employees are able to create and produce breakthrough results from the ideas they generate. Your employees will be more engaged and satisfied in the work they do.
Set expectations that plan positive change as your company explores new challenges and opportunities. The essential ingredient to creating Breakthroughs in your business is to execute smart actions as soon as possible.
Harness Talent & Skills of Employees: The performance of your organization and its ability to achieve business goals relies on your valuable assets- your talent pool. Every employee has hidden talents that could take your company from good to great. Do you know your employees talents, or what your employees are capable of producing.
After talking with your employees and finding out their hidden skills, abilities and other talents, write it down and keep it handy as you may have specific tasks that can be assigned to those who can handle what you need accomplished. Take advantage of them and your employee and give recognition to them in the form of a reward (maybe it is time for them to be promoted).
Summary:
As you close the book on 2014 with a fresh start to 2015, think about how you are going to move forward to the next level of your success. Are you going to begin the breakthrough results you have been waiting to start for some time? Are you going to do more of the same things of what you did last year and achieve approximately the same results? Think about if you want to survive or thrive beyond your expectation with taking calculated risks to breakthrough success.
As a useful business tool, New Year’s Resolutions can be very helpful. Do not wait for this time next year to look and see how the year went. If you are ambitious enough, make your preparations now. Get organized and make this year your most successful year yet. Give yourself the gift of creating and producing the breakthrough results you want and need to move forward.
Keeping with the New Year’s Resolution, my question to you is, “Why is the new year going to be different from last year? The key is to stick with them.