Welcome to Brunner & Associates, Inc.

Today I facilitated an update to a strategic plan that this organization (my client) does every single year;  it’s a wonderful practice!  I have been working for this nonprofit for over 10 years and have shared with their staff many times:  there are only three things that individuals and organizations need to do to be successful:

1.    Decide what you want.  Most organizations and nearly all individuals, in my opinion, never intentionally decide what they want to be, achieve or have.

2.    Make a plan to achieve it.  Plans must be in writing.

3.    Implement the plan.  As a colleague once said, “implementation is everything.”

That’s all there is to it.  Why don’t you give it a try.

David Allen recently wrote about one the principles of his Getting Things Done approach:  There’s usually an inverse relationship between the amount something is on your mind and how much progress you’re making on it.  That’s called an open loop defined as anything your brain is holding onto because you haven’t clarified what it means  and what your going to do about it. 

The good news:  You don’t have to finish something to get it off your mind.  What you need to do is:

·      Clarify what the final outcome is.

·      Decide the very next action required to move toward that outcome.

·      Put reminders of the outcome and next action in a system you trust.