Current Customer Perceptions
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What customers currently think of the business?
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How to find out what customers currently think?
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Building brand awareness
The Vision
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How do you want customers to describe your brand/business?
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What does exceptional customer relations look like in your industry/business?
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What are your competitors doing?
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Identifying the gap between current reality and the vision
What Makes Customers Loyal
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Customer phycology
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What drives loyalty and motivation?
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How do people choose who to buy from?
Building the Strategy
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Developing objectives to achieve the vision
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Identifying quick wins and longer-term goals and objectives
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Planning how to achieve the objectives (the steps and actions)
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Documenting the plan in a way that is easily communicated
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Planning how to communicate to gain maximum engagement and make people feel excited about the plan
Pre-empting Resistance and Challenges
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Identifying what the challenges to the strategy might be
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Answering the challenges
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Developing support mechanisms for those who worry about the courses of action
Setting and Measuring Organisational Goals
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Breaking the strategy down into departmental and team goals and objectives
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Ensuring everyone understands the bigger picture
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Keeping things on track and how to deal with the things that go wrong
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Measuring the progress and communicating the results