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<\/a>Other factors contribute to slow resets as well. Business planning activity in environments where there is an absence of a relevant and clear strategic plan is another example.<\/p>\nWithout the clarity provided by a strategic plan, business planning can become bureaucratic and time consuming. Strategic plans allow stakeholders to have the conversation\/negotiation\/argument once<\/em>. In the absence of a strategic plan, it happens over and over again.<\/p>\nTry these tips to streamline your annual reset:<\/h3>\n\n- Start earlier.<\/strong> There\u2019s no need to wait until the books are closed. Most organizations are very attuned to how the year will end well before the calendar flips.<\/li>\n
- Make the process less linear.<\/strong> Start business planning and performance evaluations simultaneously. Ensure performance evaluations are occurring at multiple levels concurrently, as opposed to cascading them by levels in the organization.<\/li>\n
- Hold managers accountable in two ways. <\/strong>1.) Allow them to make performance rating and compensation decisions – and hold them accountable for the decisions. They\u2019ll like that. 2.) Establish a very aggressive timeline and guidelines to which they must conform. They may not like that as much.<\/li>\n
- Consider a dedicated evaluation day.<\/strong> No meetings. No phone calls. Every manager spends the entire day finalizing performance evaluations.<\/li>\n
- Examine the business planning and performance management activities that occur throughout the year.<\/strong> If either is treated like a one-time annual event, as opposed to an ongoing process, then make some changes to spread the activities out over the course of the year.<\/li>\n
- If you don\u2019t already have one, or if it sits on a shelf and collects dust, then develop a strategic plan<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
It can<\/em> be done. I know one organization that completed its reset in December. And there\u2019s nothing unique that enables them to do so. They just committed<\/em> to it. Just like any other organization can. Including yours<\/em>.<\/p>\nI hope you have a healthy, happy, and prosperous 2015\u2026 and that it starts soon!<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nImage courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Annual Reset – How To Compress It Isn\u2019t it great to have a fresh start? To be renewed? To begin the New Year with a clean slate? That\u2019s the opportunity presented by a mere flipping of the calendar (remember when we used to actually have those?!). In our personal lives, the New Year often …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[79,78,77,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepeopleadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Other factors contribute to slow resets as well. Business planning activity in environments where there is an absence of a relevant and clear strategic plan is another example.<\/p>\n