One “Essential Strategic Plan” template, five meeting agendas that walk you through filling it out, seven blog posts, and a review of 26 online brainstorming tools, all combine to make up the Complete Toolkit for Strategic Planning...
Source: John McPherson on cartoonstock.com We test every new meeting template before it’s published to the Lucid template gallery. We check for typos and configuration problems, and we test to see if the flow feels right. Sometimes...
Once you have an established vision and mission, it’s time to figure out exactly what you’ll do to achieve them. The Complete Toolkit for Strategic Planning with Remote Teams breaks this work into two sessions. In the...
New Meeting Agenda Template! Here at Lucid, we’re fans of Lisette Sutherland’s work with remote teams on CollaborationSuperpowers.com, Happy Melly, and her blog at lisettesutherland.com. When we saw her post on creating a working agreement for remote...
This post is the fourth in a series. You can find the whole series in our Complete Toolkit for Strategic Planning with Remote Teams. When an organization’s values appear as guiding principles, a code of conduct, or a...
This post is the third in a series. You can find the whole series in our Complete Toolkit for Strategic Planning with Remote Teams. Have you ever tried strategic planning without first getting your vision and mission...
This post is the second in a series. You can find the whole series in our Complete Toolkit for Strategic Planning with Remote Teams. When I worked at larger companies as a product manager, I LOVED to...
How we begin matters. In the life of every project there is a time before, when the project exists as a possibility. From this possibility, we craft our intentions for the project. We envision what could be,...
Who isn’t familiar with the deadly sales meeting where someone drones on, flipping through the 100-slide PowerPoint deck? This situation is even worse when you’re working online, presenting from a distance. Your audience’s eyelids are drooping. They’re checking...
Hint: Download the PDF facilitator guides for all 4 meetings at the end of this post. Most teams run status meetings because they always have. Because someone told them to. Because that’s what they did in their...
