~ Tamara Stopford - Focus HR Leadership & Engagement Consultant Over my years in the workforce, I have been so fortunate to work for large corporate businesses, world recognised chains, not-for-profit organisations, and local small businesses....
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Group Strategic Planning Workshop
A clearly identify and articulated vision, purpose and goals empowers owners to align their team and maintain a laser-like focus on the bigger picture. Owners who are effective at strategic thinking and implementation planning create an...
Biggest myths about strategy.
With over 11 years of experience in helping clients create, execute, improve and achieve their strategies, we’ve heard it all. There are many truths, half truths and porky pies told about business strategy that often leave business owners and...
What is strategic planning?
Strategic planning is about assessing the current state of play, reflecting, and looking ahead all at once. It’s about getting out of the everyday and getting into a strategic mindset so the short, medium and long term goals you set are setting...
3 reasons strategy is important for business.
Every business leader serious about running a thriving business needs to give attention, focus and time to nurturing their strategic plan. At Focus HR, we believe strategy is important for business for 3 main reasons. Strategy establishes direction...
Destination Postcard – Stretched to 10 Year Moonshot
Every business leader serious about running a thriving business needs to give attention, focus and time to nurturing their strategic plan. To win in business today, you'll need a plan... A plan your team knows and can implement effectively. At...
Our Strategy Journey – Moonshot Goal
The evolution of our strategic plan has been remarkable - when we started in 2011 with just one person, it was very much 'fly by the seat of my pants'. And even when we ventured into formalising our strategy in 2015 we certainly didn't get it right...
Don’t forget to reflect
At this time of year it is very tempting to skip ahead and focus on planning for 2022, but please don't miss the opportunity to pause and reflect on 2021's achievements. Not only is it a wonderful chance to remind yourself what you and your team...
Strategy and Schooling
I was reflecting recently on my university days. They were some of the best days of my life. I know that at the time I felt stress and pressure to deliver assignments on time, memorise text books for exams, and the constant challenge from the...
Our Vision, Our Space
Our vision is to achieve mastery in our space by having a position on all things people, leadership, strategy. It is a vision for a reason - a vision is a goal or an aspiration, it is not your current state. We are not so egotistical as to think...
Our Strategy on a Page Journey
In 2011 I took the scary step of starting my own consultancy. I was pleasantly surprised (and relieved!) by the demand and over the following four years grew at an increasingly rapid rate so that by 2015 I had a team of five. It had started to...
Using people, leadership & strategy to emerge from the COVID-19 recession
A Harvard Business Review study has shown that 17% of businesses don't survive a recession and 80% take longer than 3 years to reach their previous growth rates for sales and profits. Only 9% of businesses flourish after a recession. What was their...
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