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Entrepreneur, Real Estate Professional, and Director of Marketing

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I. Introduction II. Step 1: What’s Your Vision? III. Step 2: The Importance of a Plan IV. Step 3: Have you done a SWOT? V. Step 4: Setting BenchmarksVI. Step 5: Developing StrategiesVII. Step 6: Strategic Action PlansVIII. Step 7: Assign Follow Up

IX. Conclusion

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Outline

Introduction

Introduction Outline

• What has God assigned you to do?

• Your role and God’s role

Introduction

What has God created you to do?○ God has an adventure and assignment for that is specific to

this business or endeavor.○ It may not be like someone else’s, so it is important to allow

God to show you what that vision is, and run with it.

Habakkuk 2:2 - And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make [it] plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.Proverbs 29:18 - Where [there is] no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy [is] he.Habakkuk 2:3 - For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

Introduction

Your role and God’s role

○1 Corinthians 3:6, 9-11Amplified Bible (AMP) ○6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God [all the while] was making it grow and [He] gave the increase.

○9 For we are fellow workmen (joint promoters, laborers together) with and for God; you are God’s [a]garden and vineyard and field under cultivation, [you are] God’s building.10 According to the grace (the special endowment for my task) of God bestowed on me, like a skillful architect and master builder I laid [the] foundation, and now another [man] is building upon it. But let each [man] be careful how he builds upon it,11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is [already] laid, which is Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

Introduction Recap

○ Clearly settle on what God has called you to do, and set

the Vision ○ Allow God to be your Joint Promoter- He will show you

how to achieve success. After all, He has a vested interest in seeing results! Just do your part, and let Him do the rest.

Step 1: What’s Your Vision?

What’s Your Vision?

• What has God shown you? • Define the Vision • Define the Mission

What has God shown you?○ What are you to accomplish with this business or project?

○ If you already have a Vision statement documented, are you satisfied with it? Is it still relevant?

○ If you do not have a Vision statement, it is time to create one.

It Starts with a Vision

My “Ignite” Series Includes teaching, workbook, templates, and Powerpoint on Vision

Vision and Mission

○ Who has an established Vision?

○ Who needs to establish a Vision?

What’s Your Vision? Recap○ Connect with God’s vision; line up with the passion He has put in

you

○ Keep it simple and clear so people can “run” with it! ○ Communicate, Communicate, Communicate ○ Dig in and put actions to the ideas

Step 2: The Importance of a

Plan

The Importance of a Plan

• Plan leads to Implementation • Document and Measure

Plan Leads to Implementation

In my 30+ years of business and leadership, the one thing that I have seen that sets successful organizations and businesses apart the most is successful implementation.

You can have a boat load of good ideas, but until someone takes the initiative to name priorities, make a plan, and break it down to actionable tasks, it will not yield you the results you are desiring.

Karen Conrad

Document and Measure

○ How many of you have attended a planning or brainstorming session but nothing happens?

○ Any time you enter a meeting or a planning session, be sure you assign the responsibility of completing a template to a specific person.

○ This action, along with a plan for measurement, will ensure you gain traction and begin to move forward in an organized fashion. The is CRITICAL to success.

Step 3: Have you done a SWOT?

Step 3: Have you done a SWOT?

• Strengths • Weaknesses • Opportunities • Threats

Have you done a SWOT?

○ Strengths- What are the strengths of you as business people, ministers, your team members, and your business and/or ministry?

○ Weaknesses- What are the areas that you are currently weak in?

○ Opportunities- What are the opportunities you see?

○ Threats- What are things that could threaten your ability to seize those opportunities? (This could be both internal and external)

Have you done a SWOT? Recap○ A SWOT is a critical step; time to take inventory and

allow God to show you the opportunities He wants you to walk through.

Step 4: Setting Benchmarks

Step 4: Setting Benchmarks

Outline

•Measuring Success

•Get your net out!

•Make them realistic but a

stretch

Get your net out!

○ What is God showing you to “go for” and achieve?

○ What are problems that you want to solve?

○ What do you want to achieve in your Ministry and/or Business, and what would it take to make that happen? (tie back to a measurable benchmark)

Make them realistic but a stretch

○ Are you committed to reaching the benchmarks?

○ Do the benchmarks support the vision?

○ Will they cause you to have to stretch and rely on God?

Measuring Success○ If you want growth, do you have the systems and

infrastructure to support it on ongoing?

○ If you do not have the ability to hire more help, ask yourself what will help you be more efficient or other ways to take on more to reach these benchmarks (volunteers, etc.)

○ Prepare your team to take on more

Setting Benchmarks Recap

○ Do your benchmarks bring you closer to achieving your vision?

○ Make them measureable and challenging enough to rely on God for success.

Step 5: Developing Strategies

Step 5: Establishing Strategies

● •What strategies will you use to achieve

the benchmarks?

● •Look for opportunities in what you have available

● •Do the strategies bless people and further business and/or ministry?

What strategies will you use to achieve your benchmarks?

○ These will drive your marketing action plans and project teams

○ This is a critical step to implementing change

Look for opportunities that you have available○ What are you doing today that you can maximize or add

a strategy to?

Do the strategies bless people and further business/and or ministry?○ It is about being a blessing ○ What are the top needs of the people affected by the strategy? ○ It makes it easy to hear direction when the focus stays on Him

Establishing Strategies Recap ○ This is how you are going to approach achieving your

benchmarks, which support your Vision.

○ You will decide what you will and will not due to achieve your defined success.

Step 6: Strategic Action Plans

Step 6: Strategic Action Plans

● •They lead to project teams

● •It is how you take strategies and

convert them to practical implementation

The lead to project teams

○ Project teams to achieve

○ Create cross department teams when possible

○ Smartsheet project template example

It is how you take strategies and convert

them to practical implementation

○ Brainstorm in your teams on what programs you will implement within your strategies to bring the results you desire

○ You could have multiple action plans under each strategy.

Strategic Action Plan Recap● Get your team involved

● This is where the rubber meets the road- all at once, you are moving with action!

Step 7: Assign Follow Up

Step 7: Assign Follow Up

● •Take the first steps and assign follow up

● •Schedule a meeting within a week to follow up and ensure follow

through is done

Take the first steps and assign follow up○ Determine what has to be done to get things moving

○ Assign a name and a date to ensure follow through

Schedule a meeting within a week to follow

up and ensure follow through is done

○ This way people know you are serious, and your team gets involved with helping achieve success

Conclusion

○ You can use this system as broad or concise as you want, it will work! ○ Next step is marketing plans- this makes it happen! ○ Followed by results reporting- this measures your effectiveness and lets you know when to retool your plan.

Thank you and God bless you!

Karen Conrad

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