Business Quarterly: Lisa Riley – Strategies for setting goals

We all know that year-end strategic planning is one of the most-important things you can do for yourself, your business and your clients, so creating and implementing a plan for 2023 is at the top of all our minds. We’re at that time of year where some people have already planned for 2023 and other people are doing it right now. Personally, I can talk about strategic business planning ad nauseam, especially in relation to goal-setting and tactical steps to achieve goals. It’s not the sexiest topic, but it is the most important. How do you go about goal-setting and planning for your life and business in 2023? At the end of every year, I look back at how a business did that year, how the financials are looking, what the customer experience was like and what the game plan is for the following year. As I plan for the year ahead, I follow a framework for approaching strategic business planning that starts with a 10,000-foot view of the business, or what is called the “desired future state” or “DFS.” The DFS is a future vision that you want for your business – for example, “I want to do […]

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