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Brunner & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in helping organizations and individuals with strategic planning, coaching, and other organizational and management issues. We also provide facilitation services to organizations and groups, helping them to address issues and reach agreement on important matters.
Fri
01
Mar
2024
Simple Wisdom Tip 148: Prepare! Prepare!
I facilitated an all-staff meeting for a large non-profit (70 staff) and the top management team (CEO, COO and CFO) and we had probably 12-13 meetings over the last three months to plan, prepare and practice. The CEO is a masterful planner and we got this process down cold. We had the meeting last week and it was highly effective and wonderfully received, all because we prepared. No surprise. Preparing properly is a core skill in life.
It is amazing how many of us don’t take time to plan big events. So often we “wing it” – and that approach often fails. Please take the time up front to decide what you want to accomplish, how best to achieve it, and who needs to do what by when. You will be glad you did. Remember the old adage – winners prepare and non-winners don’t.
Thu
01
Feb
2024
Simple Wisdom Tip #147: The Key is Capturing
I work with and coach people on creating good systems to keep track of things and efficiently get them done. Folks often tell me that their systems work pretty well….until a crunch period comes (extensive travel, a crisis of some kind, whatever) and then “the wheels come off” and they abandon their systems temporarily. This sets the person back and getting on track again is challenging.
What I counsel people is that – even during the crunch – the one critical thing to keep doing is capturing all the incoming stuff in a trusted place. For example, many of us keep some kind of Master List of everything we want or have to do. Even if we can’t process the stuff in the crunch period, at least we have it captured in one place. Then, when things ease up, we can easily go to that key list and begin responding to those items that most need our attention.