Organizations can be challenged with having the agility to respond rapidly and effectively to conflicts and critical business issues. Many formerly successful organizations lacked agility – do you remember A&P, Blockbuster, Circuit City, Borders, Ringling Brothers and Toys R Us?
The larger an organization becomes the greater its talent base and capabilities – but unfortunately communication and problem resolution become more challenging. What’s lacking is not the talent but a means of tapping into the knowledge, skills, and experience of that talent – in a manner that generates their buy-in.
There is such an approach – the Action Planning Process. The Action Planning Process consists of a series of steps that:
The Action Planning Process can be applied in a variety of situations including:
Supervisors, managers & leaders in any job function
Pete Tosh is Founder of The Focus Group, a management consulting and training firm that assists organizations in sustaining profitable growth through four core disciplines:
The Focus Group has provided these consulting & training services to manufacturing & service organizations across the U.S., Canada, Europe & the Middle East.
Pete has worked closely with the senior leadership teams of organizations such as Brink’s, EMC, State Farm Insurance, Marriott, N.C.I., Freddie Mac, and YKK Pete is also co-author of Leading Your Organization to the Next Level: The Core Disciplines of Sustained Profitable Growth. Pete holds a B.A. degree in Psychology from Emory and Henry College
& Masters degrees in both Business Administration & Industrial Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University.