Let's Do This: Strategic Planning for Growth
Whether you’re at the idea or the operational stage of your project or business, you need a plan! Not just any plan, but a strategic plan, which is essential for project and business growth. In this session, attendees will learn best practices for creating effective strategic plans which include learning how to create SMART Goals and action steps to accomplish those goals. Attendees will discover their internal assets, service refinement process, and learn how to understand and implement best practices after engaging in a SWOT analysis. Key take-aways include: creating a one-page strategic plan which will include their business or project’s long-term and short-term goals; and attendees will be able to articulate barriers that have prevented them from executing in the past, and develop an understanding of how to work through these barriers.
Andrena Sawyer - P.E.R.K. Consulting
Creating and Sustaining Cultures of Innovation in Manufacturing
Innovation is vital to effectiveness today and viability tomorrow. But what can leaders do to create and sustain an organizational culture that applies its creativity fast enough and effectively enough to thrive in today’s turbulent environment? As recent events have shown, organizations must be nimble, creative, and adaptable—and do so even with more remote workers and significant disruptions. Discover the key actions manufacturing leaders can take today to preserve and improve cultures that innovate effectively.
Gary Covert - Gary Covert Consulting