Ready to Take Your Business Results to the Next Level?

If you're like most working professionals these days, your plate is overloaded and shows no signs of clearing up. The transactional part of our jobs never stops - we have to consciously make time to think strategically about our performance and our jobs, or it will never happen.

Whether you’re a manager or employee, sole proprietor or senior executive, taking time out to think strategically may seem like a luxury you can't afford. Or you're simply too tired from putting out fires to think about anything but the immediate. But looking beyond the day-to-day, thinking about the future and the implications of present events, has been shown over and over to make the difference between success and failure.

But if we don't take time to look at the big picture, what will happen when…

…Knowledge walks out the door with experienced people who retire?
…A company has no people ready to promote?
…Qualified employees are not interested in moving up?
…Top talent is not maximized or focused on important issues?

These and so many other people issues require new thinking and new strategies. One of the world's greatest thinkers and innovators, Albert Einstein, said, “The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”

To help us move up to the next level of performance and results, we can:
1) Get out of our own job rat-race long enough to think about our future.
2) Read a book on a subject that will make us think about what we can contribute to our organization to strengthen future results.
3) Ask ourselves, “How can I take my own performance to the next level?” And then do something about it!
4) Go to a customer, client, or coworker and ask them, “Thinking about the future, what would be most valuable that I could provide for you?” And then ask for their support in helping us make those changes now.
5) Attend a workshop on a strategic topic that will challenge our thinking by having us interact with others. Come away with 2 new ideas to implement for positive change.
Here are some suggestions for October workshops in Richmond:

October 23 – Leading Change in Difficult Situation, www.ChangeManagementSeminar.com.
October 24 – Strategic Planning for HR Issues, www.StrategicHRPlanning.com.
October 25 - Thinking Like Your CEO, www.ThinkingLikeYourCEO.com.


Taking our results to the next level starts the minute we stop and ask ourselves:
"What would the next level of performance be for me?"

Charlyne Meinhard at Next Level Consulting, LLC: Charlyne@NextLevelForYou.com.