Leadership skills

Good day everyone. So today i would like to write a blog on leadership skills which is "PLANNING". Planning is a key part of every success. I meet startup leaders almost every day who are implementing tactics in the absence of an overall strategy. I continue to see leaders compromise their success and the success of the organizations they lead. I have identified 5 pillars for success. Without these 5 pillars, we greatly compromise our results and even set up our organizations for failure. Even leaving out one of these pillars will compromise your success by at least 50%.


Effective planning and organization require the ability to create and use logical, systematic processes to achieve goals. Those who are skilled at this competency can visualize the steps needed to reach a goal and naturally organize the process, modifying as necessary. Tomorrow’s leaders will use planning and organization to cast a broad net around what might happen, and to create a plan that is robust enough to respond to the unknown. As you practice planning and organization, you will see that that creating workable plans helps keep team members accountable and projects on track.




The reason why planning is an important skill for leaders is that proper planning gives leaders the confidence to commit. Commit what you ask? Resources is the answer. In broad terms when we consider any business, in any industry, there are four core resources required for it to function ; people, money or capital which has to be budgeted and allocated, materials in all shapes and forms that are used to support converting inputs into outputs e.g. computers, and last is time which is finite.

Lack of attention to planning means leaders risk making decisions that will impact the allocation and use of these valuable resources. The ‘knock on’ effects from poor resource allocation resulting from poor planning are far reaching and considerable.




Ultimately poor planning impacts on the nature and quality of customer service provided because the resources are not available to meet existing customer needs or respond quickly to ever changing customer needs.

Far too much attention is placed on ensuring whatever plan template is being used is completed correctly, yet a correctly completed template that contains a poorly constructed plan is not likely to instil confidence. In planning the emphasis must be on thinking critically about how to best allocate available resources so as to maximise returns. As a leader, only when you are satisfied there has been adequate quality thinking undertaken should you commit your plan to paper because you will have built the confidence to commit your organisation’s valuable resources?











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