{"id":1053,"date":"2012-11-06T10:06:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T15:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2012-11-05T10:22:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T15:22:46","slug":"start-planning-for-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2012\/11\/06\/start-planning-for-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Planning for 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of this week, the Holiday Music will begin.\u00a0 I like to think of this as the <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">planning season<\/span> <\/em>to help create a stunning 2013.\u00a0 To make the most of a planning season, first stop obsessing about WHAT has happened and put your plan in place for what WILL happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We increase our chance of success by setting goals for our businesses that are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>S<\/strong><\/span>pecific, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>M<\/strong><\/span>easurable, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>A<\/strong><\/span>ttainable, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>R<\/strong><\/span>elevant and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>T<\/strong><\/span>ime sensitive!\u00a0\u00a0SMART yearly goals yield yearly successes.\u00a0 The more defined your goals are, the more likely you will achieve them.\u00a0 The more realistic your goals, the more likely you will hold yourself accountable to tracking them, regularly.<\/p>\n<p>Where to start?\u00a0 Begin with the four basics of the balanced scorecard:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Financial<\/strong>:\u00a0 What metric (number) will we track monthly and what will we achieved by year end?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Customers<\/strong>: How will we provide value and satisfaction to our customers?\u00a0 How will we know we have achieved this?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Process\/Production<\/strong>: To satisfy our customers and stakeholders, what processes must we excel at?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Growth<\/strong>: To achieve our vision, what must we sustain, change and or improve to meet our goals?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A business plan for the next twelve months is one tried and true way to create a foundation for a widely successful year.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/balance-scorecard-for-the-web.pdf\">Click here for a pdf about the Balanced Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let us know what you do to guarantee a great new year.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"One Year Action Plan for Success\" href=\"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/training-classes\/one-year-action-plan-for-success-training-class\/\">Upcoming Training on Planning<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the end of this week, the Holiday Music will begin.\u00a0 I like to think of this as the planning season to help create a stunning 2013.\u00a0 To make the most of a planning season, first stop obsessing about WHAT has happened and put your plan in place for what WILL happen.\u00a0 We increase our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-planning","category-goals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}