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Strategy

by Troy Forrest

An Adelaide-based strategy workshop facilitator's perspectives, experiences and odd ocker metaphors on all things strategy.

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Episodes

  1. Strategy on a Wobbleboard

    Strategic Planning Process Facilitator Troy Forrest talks about the skills and practices needed to develop strategy for 2021+ in a dynamic, unpredictable world.

  2. Strategy considerations through & beyond 2020

    Navigating your business through & beyond COVID-19? Need to rework & recalibrate your strategic plan? Here are ten considerations you might want to make as you map the right roads ahead.

  3. Try stuff

    You won't ever know for sure if it'll work.... so?

  4. The ridiculous ends

    You couldn't possibly go that far... could you?

  5. The fallen tree

    Before you toss out your 2019 plan...

  6. Progress mirrors

    Check out how far you've come... and the remainder.

  7. Focus

    Focus by Troy Forrest

  8. Touch night school

    Because professionals practice.

  9. The courage & cancerous cascade of cancelling

    If you do it, do it for your goals.

  10. Until you're sick of it

    When you've just had enough, you've nearly had enough.

  11. Endpoint Visibility

    Let clarity of ambition help you keep puffing when it gets hard.

  12. No

    To fit the good stuff in, you have to take the bad stuff out.

  13. Clear as mud

    When the your-mouth to their-ears communications torrent is turbulent.

  14. The Sales Professionals Lot

    The part of the gig beyond toting brochures and signing contracts.

  15. Full your moon

    Having the courage to down trou and bare your imperfect underside.

  16. Box 1

    Who are your activities and choices making happy?

  17. Same Same but Different (Diversity & the Network Effect)

    When the friction of network diversity is trumped by flow benefits.

  18. Balanced Strategy

    The magic and necessity of weaving "both" into your strategy.

  19. Why they don't follow

    When you're working to lead, and the conga line isn't grabbing your hips... thought about why?

  20. Choose

    Organisational structure is not the primary enabler of teamwork.

  21. Grabbing opportunity

    The quantum of opportunity (and why most won't touch it with a stick).

  22. Leadership in strategic planning

    Do you have to aim to be leaders in something?

  23. The Durian and the Yoghurt Cup

    You get to choose the kind of content you produce - Yoghurt Cups? Or Durian?

  24. First principles

    Strategy starting with tin tacks and the end in mind.

  25. Sales lines

    The varied lines that keep your sales esky full.

  26. The grunt work

    The entry fee and ongoing subscription dues for self employment.

  27. Forced lean

    Finding the silver lining of business improvement when austerity measures kick in.

  28. Happy Customers

    7 thoughts on being a customer-centric business.

  29. Life as a ladder rung

    What it means to be a supporter and enabler of others.

  30. Why Plan?

    The merits of investing time in something that'll be wrong from day 1.

  31. Understanding the journey to 88

    The energy needed to hit critical payoff speed (and what to do when you don't).

  32. Diversity domains

    Thinking beyond chromosomes and country of origin in your diversity approach.

  33. Fr(agility)

    When constant movement creates a sense of uncertainty and fear... how to shore it up.

  34. Memories or imagination

    Balancing learning from the past with crafting a new future.

  35. The cancer of ingratitude (reverse the spread)

    Why this little-captured value has such a spreadable impact.

  36. The Pygmalion effect in business planning

    Determining whether you think you can or you can't.

  37. The practice of practice

    The discipline of the successful professional and the teams that win.

  38. The bravery of the executioner

    Time management is picking and choosing what's in and what's tossed.

  39. Tell the truth about your goals

    Setting goals you want to hit, not what looks good on paper.

  40. A loose thread on the hem

    Trimming frayed edges on otherwise brilliant customer service hems.

  41. Surrendering a staunch position

    Giving up the ground when it's clear you're wrong.

  42. Nerve fibres, team meetings & why coaching eats training for breakfast

    The value of mates when you're travelling the hard, hot roads of professional progress.

  43. Leaders believe in a construct

    Following a framework even when it's broken or imaginary.

  44. Strategic Knights at your Round Table

    When you can't help them, facilitating partnerships with those that can.

  45. Strategy Shell Game

    Making selections and avoiding overwhelm.

  46. What becomes of Phrenologists

    Snuffing out "the way we do things around here" obsolete ideas.

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An Adelaide-based strategy workshop facilitator's perspectives, experiences and odd ocker metaphors on all things strategy.

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Troy Forrest

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