{"id":2318,"date":"2011-02-07T09:48:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T16:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2012-12-04T09:36:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T16:36:04","slug":"strategic-planning-step-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2011\/02\/strategic-planning-step-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic Planning – Step Four"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 12 of 14 in the series Strategic Planning<\/a><\/div>

In Step Four, you take your list that was created in Step Three and pick the ones that you want to focus on.<\/p>\n

In Step Three you made a quick list of at least 20-30, then we started narrowing it down to 5-7 ideas that might be the best. Now is the time to start looking deeper at the 5-7 that you have.<\/p>\n

If you have noticed, some of these steps start blending together.\u00a0 They overlap and you may go back and forth between them filling in the blanks as you go. It is fine that they blend together as long as you stop at some point to make sure that you have completed each step.<\/p>\n

This is also the step where you start looking at the firms overall goals and plans to see where your best efforts need to be. We will discuss that in further posts.<\/p>\n

The Product of this Step:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Define the main goals you will want to reach.\u00a0 You can think of these as Focus Statements.\u00a0 They define the general targets that you want to hit.<\/p>\n

Example:<\/p>\n