The 1-Page Game Plan

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The 1-Page Game Plan

• Complex Template
• (Level 3)

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• THE FIVE KEY QUESTIONS
• What are the most important goals for my
  organization?
• What are my and my teams goals, and are they
  linked to the bigger organizational picture?
• Can we see clearly the progress we are making
  whenever we need to look?
• What internal and external forces have caused
  directional changes since we last looked?
• What are the most important things we need to
  emphasize right now in order to meet our goals?

1-Paging symbols
VISION
GOALS
ON SEPARATE DASHBOARD PAGE
MEASURES
CRITICAL-TO-QUALITY STRATEGIES
STRATEGIC INITIATIVES AND TACTICS
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Complex Template Coaching Tips

• When you are creating your plan with a team and
  with your partners, make sure that you do not
  show them a completed game plan immediately. It
  requires some explanation of goals, measures,
  critical-to-quality strategies, and tactics
  first.
• Start by showing your ideas for goals, and
  critical-to-quality items (see Chapter Four of
  Manage Your World on ONE PAGE. Leave the rest of
  the template blank, then get their ideas for
  goals and measures and incorporate through
  meetings and workshops. Then let the process of
  completion continue from there with you
  completing the plan in real time. Refer to the
  top-down/bottom-up elements of planning in
  Chapter Five.
• If you cascade the 1-Pager down throughout your
  organization, make sure that there is alignment
  at the goal level.
• Create your dashboard of measures to fit your
  goals on a separate page. Try to get your
  measures done before moving on to tactics. This
  pays off enormously in the long run.
• Remember that this is a living document you will
  use at your team meetings. It helps to appoint a
  team member to be owner of the latest version and
  to do some of the real-time updating, especially
  if you all have 1-Pagers that tie-in with each
  other.
• Try to insert sufficient tactics to cover at
  least 3 future planning periods. More will arise
  as these few get completed or adapted.
• Use the 1-Pager to set the agenda for your
  management meetings. It maintains alignment and
  focus. Include it in your teams Ground Rules.
• The next slide is the Template, read the
  suggestions as you complete it.
• We want you to use and share this template
  freely. As you adapt it, we ask you to email your
  1-Pager, Dashboard, and other useful items so we
  can add them to our open library at 1-Paging.com.
  Please make them appropriately anonymous!.
• Email to 1-Paging_at_LeaderX.com

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Type Your Organization's Vision Statement Here
Make it Inspiring!
VISION
Type Your First Goal Here Example Next Right
Third Goal Here Remember Your Dashboard is a
Separate Page
Remember Your Dashboard is on a Separate Page
Achieve World Class in Project Management
5 Goals is More Than Enough For Any Team.
Easy Does It!
GOALS

• List things critical for quality for this goal
• They cause focus upon the strategies
• Example next right

• Measure our reputation for PM
• Smartest PM tools
• Experienced PM recruits hungry to expand tools

• You discover these critical items through a cause
  and effect analysis
• See chapter Four of the book.

• Less than 3 critical items is OK!
• In fact its better.
• It increases focus and decrease work.

• If you haven't tried the 4-Step Process in
  Chapter 4..

CRITICAL TO QUALITY STRATEGIES

• First tactic for Goal 1 goes here.
• Second tactic for Goal 1 goes here
• Third here.
• And so on.
• Example next right.
• Key Question Do these tactics (or projects) you
  list deliver against those things above that are
  critical to quality?
• If not, use the Four Step process in Chapter 6.

• Initiate bi-annual survey of our PM performance,
  quality of tools, and reputation staring in Q2
  (CF).
• PM Tools evaluate, enrich, train and follow-up
  (DG).
• 6 world class recruits from competitors in 1 year
  against the PM Career competence profile (CF).

• Try hard to add accountabilities and due dates at
  the tactic level.
• If you have too may tactics, beware of losing
  focus.
• Try to get your tactics to cover two or three
  planning periods ahead.
• Remember that this is a living document these
  tactics will change regularly.

• Experienced users of the 1-Pager say that a great
  tactic is the title of a change project which can
  be led.
• Avoid multiple leaders of tactics it creates
  unintended hiding places for accountability.
• Change the colors and font to suit you.

• Remember that when you show the 1-Pagee to
  someone for the first time, dont show it all at
  once.
• Work slowly down the page.
• Its easy to turn people off with so much
  information.

STRATEGIC INITIATIVESAND TACTICS