How Tenacious Are Your People in Executing Your Strategic Plan?
Implementing a strategic plan appears to be a consistent challenge from the small business owner to the Fortune 100 companies. Your people need to be tenacious. The question is how does one build that necessary quality of tenacity as you move forward to achieve your business results.
Tenacity as defined by Webster is the state of being tenacious. The origins of tenacious are Latin and mean to hold. Some people interchange the words courage, determination, obstinacy, perseverance, persistency, resiliency and stubbornness for the words tenacity or tenacious. All of these words work because they imply the action of holding on.
Within the word tenacity is another word ten. Being tenacious implies that you never give up. Soichiro Honda believed that Success is 99% failure. Understanding that you must fail to go forward when working your strategic plan is a key belief. By remembering the 10 in tenacity or tenacious, you will begin to retry when current efforts fail.
One sure fire way to hold on is through the use of a proven goal planning, goal setting and goal achievement process. As the old adage goes Success breeds success. When individuals can consistently execute their own personal goals, they are much more inclined to transfer that behavior to the organization. Unfortunately, goal planning, goal setting and goal achievement is not taught in the current educational systems including post secondary experiences.
Another way to build this quality within your organization is to recognize the efforts of the group as they work toward the business goals. Communication of monthly results to acknowledging specific efforts of those who are on track helps to reinforce the overall belief of holding on.
Yes, your people can be developed to be tenacious. Development goes beyond the training programs by taking current knowledge and skills and moving them to that next level. This strategy works with the strengths and potential strengths of everyone involved while improving any performance weaknesses. Take a chance on your people, develop them to be tenacious and you may be surprised by the amount of performance that you will harvest.
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Leanne Hoagland-Smith, M.S. is a speaker and Indianapolis business coach & Chicago business coach who has written hundreds of articles with a focus on improving individual and organizational performance through excellence in leadership to executable strategic plans.
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