{"id":59,"date":"2007-05-05T09:53:14","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T13:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/?p=59"},"modified":"2007-05-05T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2007-05-05T13:53:14","slug":"suggestions-regarding-effectively-balancing-planning-with-executing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/59\/suggestions-regarding-effectively-balancing-planning-with-executing","title":{"rendered":"Suggestions Regarding Effectively Balancing Planning With Executing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big question on many people&#8217;s minds is how to balance planning with getting the plan done.\u00a0 Here are my thoughts on the matter:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been my experience that successful leaders tend to lay down their strategy 1-4 times a year to avoid making teammates&#8217; heads spin as they change directions every couple of weeks.\u00a0 They then spend about 2-4 hours every 2-4 weeks on clarifying that strategy to their people and identifying any major barriers to executing the tactics necessary to fulfilling their strategic aims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My experience is that, if this process is done well, there is a lot of time left to focus on assisting key team members with executing their strategies.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it&#8217;s also been my experience that this process is NOT often done very well (probably about 10% of the leaders my team knows does it at a consistently high level).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big question on many people&#8217;s minds is how to balance planning with getting the plan done.\u00a0 Here are my thoughts on the matter: It&#8217;s been my experience that successful leaders tend to lay down their strategy 1-4 times a year to avoid making teammates&#8217; heads spin as they change directions every couple of weeks.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teamgroup-excellence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}