Your Guide to Better PLANNING

This book is about Planning!

Planning is your ability to create Plans of Action that bridge the gap from where you are to where you want to be and Contingency Plans for when things go wrong.

It's also one of these Core Competencies of your effectiveness and success at work and in life.

Followership, Delegating, Planning, Organizing, Communicating, Problem-Solving/Decision-Making, Awareness, Training, Motivating, and Character.

This book is for everyone in the workforce who reports to another person for their work assignments. This includes employees working for an employer and small business owners, entrepreneurs, and the self-employed working for customers, clients, or patients.Simply stated, this book is for everyone regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority.I speak from 24 years as a US Army Officer and 20 years as an Executive Coach in Corporate America in Seattle, San Diego, Kansas City, and Phoenix.

As an Executive Coach, I was blessed to work with some of America's most successful men and women, including hundreds of business executives, teams, and small business owners.

I documented what they said, did, how they did it, what worked and what didn't. But, most importantly, I documented how they made people feel.

As a result, I learned that the most effective and successful people stood out because they could do these two things better than anyone else. First, to consistently produce excellent results. And second, to add value to those who helped produce those results. This book will enhance your ability to do both.

The fact is that you may be the top producer, but if you haven't added value to those who helped you, especially your boss, you'll never become effective or successful, period.

What new skills or abilities have you acquired in the last twelve months? What contributions have you made to your current position since this time last year? And, most of all, what are you doing about it?

This book is unique because it:

• Gives you the most actionable tactics, techniques, and tools needed to consistently produce excellent results.
• Teaches you the best practices used every day by the most effective and successful people in their field, which you were never taught in school.
• Provides you with step-by-step instructions explaining what and how things should be done that you won't find anywhere in academia or Corporate America.
• Contains everything you want to know about Planning, plus everything you didn't realize you need to know about how it can enhance your effectiveness and success in business.

I know that by learning, using, and sharing the best practices found here; you'll be well on your way to becoming more effective and successful.Remember, no matter how good you think you are, you can alway...