Xtra Mile Resources

According to a study by the Project Management Institute:   Teams focused on three or fewer critical objectives see a  23% higher success rate in project completion than teams managing six or more at once.   If your team has done the SWOT work from last week’s lesson (click HERE to review), it's time to start laying out our strategic work into a plan for 2026. Your tactical/technical teammates are probably scratching their heads right now, overwhelmed while looking at this

We were preparing for a Strategic Planning Session with the high-D president of a financial advisor team. He was already laying out detailed priorities for the coming year. So I asked him, “Do you trust me? Let’s not put too many details into the plan until we go through the process.” I had been listening to his leaders in our Managers to Leaders training, and I knew he wasn’t hearing them. When we facilitate these planning sessions, we usually start with Where are we now? F