Setting Goals for the New Year

As you think about the New Year, resolutions and new goals, here's a template to help you be more clear, concise and thorough with your goal-setting and your goal-getting (no sense in setting them if you can't "get them", right?!!).

Start with the eight primary areas of your life and answer the corresponding questions from each area, and then add your own questions to formulate your goals.

Remember to make your goals SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-Oriented.

Here are the eight primary areas of your life to start with:

SOCIAL NETWORK AND FRIENDS

• How are your friendships?
• How is your support network?
• How do you feel about your interpersonal skills?

FAMILY AND YOUR INNER CIRCLE

• How are your relationships with your parents, siblings, children, spouse and extended family?  
• How is your "chosen" family; your inner circle?

VOCATIONAL, WORK AND VOLUNTEER INVOLVEMENT

• How satisfied are you with your current career?
• What would you rather be doing?
• What type of work has brought you the most satisfaction in the past?
• What do you do to "give back"?

PHYSICAL AND HEALTH

• How are your eating habits?
• How is your regular exercise program?
• How are your sleeping patterns?
• How is your weight? 
• How often do you see your medical professionals?

RECREATIONAL, HOBBIES AND VACATIONS

• What do you do in your leisure time?
• How do you relax and have fun?
• What creative outlets do you have?

FINANCIAL AND CASH FLOW

• What is your debt level?
• What are you doing to plan for the future?
• How do you want your financial future to be different?

SPIRITUAL AND PERSONAL GROWTH

• How is your spirituality?
• How do you release your emotions?
• What do you do with emotional overload?
• What do you engage in (books, audios, workshops, etc.) to promote your personal growth?

RELATIONAL, ROMANCE AND SIGNIFICANT OTHER

• How is your love life?
• What do you do to keep the passion alive?
• How well do you communicate about the more difficult issues?
• How are your conflict resolution skills?
• If you're single, how is the dating going?
• What do you want to be different here?

Then go a bit deeper into the core of your life (I dare you!!) and answer the following:

LIFE PURPOSE AND VISION

• Do you know what your life purpose is?
• Have you written your life purpose?
• Do you say it aloud daily?
• Do you have a vision for your life?
• Have you written your vision and/or created a vision map?
• Do you review your vision on a regular basis?

Now you may ask, why go to all this effort?

First of all, as the old saying goes, "No one plans to fail; people just fail to plan."

And second, if you don't have a personalized guidance system, some rules, some guidelines or some kind of tailored compass, you're bound to get lost, feel confused and have an overall unproductive experience.

Create a plan for this New Year, and for your life, and you're much more likely to achieve and experience everything you desire, and you're much more likely to be happy, healthy, wealthy and very, very wise!

How To Adjust With The Retired Life

During working days how much busy you are. Getting up early and start preparations to arrive at your work place at correct time. Some times you won't even get time to read the news paper properly. You will be always complaining that you are not getting enough time to spend few hours with your family to relax your self.

But remember that these are the most active and productive years of your life. You are always enjoying it even though you are often complaining about this busy life. When you come to your retired life you will take some time to realize or adjust with the reality. This transition will be sometimes painful for you. But some measures can make you adjust easily with the new life.

First realize that the working years have to end after some time and in old age you need the proper rest and care. You have to change the structure of your life a little bit.

You can keep some your daily routines while you retire also. Keep checking your mails and continue your contacts trough the social net working sites. Be an active personality first.

To add further structure to your retired life plan each day carefully. Divide the time into year, month, day and hour then find some specialties. First decide what all goals you want to achieve immediately after your retirement then start working to make the life a success.

Are you found of traveling? Then plan some weekend or monthly trips to some nice places which you like to visit. Other wise go for a year travel to tour all over the world. But consider your health condition and family needs before planning such a long trip.

If you are planning to involve in some business then make a through study then find a business according to your interest. But be always careful that these types of investments are really a risk because you are investing your whole life hard earned money. If you are making a right decision then you can earn a good deal of money out of it. You can also go for stock exchange business to earn without much effort. It needs only your skill and knowledge about this field.

One more thing to be taken care off is about the nature of the work you are choosing. In what ever you want to engage you can but should is a very light activity which you can afford. Better choose new ways and make your retired life to be innovative. Don't involve in some works which will be much worrying and risky.

Success is not only a word to be applied in your working years and youthful days. Your retired life and this transition can be a useful phase of your life. It is a reality and facing it bravely is the correct path. For this what you have to do is to plan well and structure your life accordingly. You can find more information and retired plans by searching in net, it will be much useful for you.

More information about retirement planning, visit our website nasrullah233@gmail.com.

The Role of Leadership in Sales and Operations Planning - Integrated Business Planning

What is the difference between a Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process that makes a modest difference in a company's operational and financial performance and an S&OP process that, year after year, enables a company to achieve its operational, business, and strategic goals?

You don't have to look beyond the senior leadership team for the answer.

Sales and Operations Planning (also known as Integrated Business Planning) is an executive management process for running the business. The focus of S&OP in the 1980s and 1990s (and still today for some companies) was a management process for aligning demand and supply at the aggregate level.

Today, Sales and Operations Planning has evolved into Integrated Business Planning where all company plans - product, demand, supply, strategic initiatives and resulting financials - are synchronized and aligned at the aggregate level each month. IBP has also evolved into a process for identifying gaps between future projections and the company's business and strategic objectives - providing direction and making decisions on how to most effectively close those gaps.

With Integrated Business Planning, the senior leadership team has a process where every month they understand not only performance to date, but also the future state of the business over at least a 24-month, rolling, planning horizon. They also have a process for ensuring that the appropriate actions and activities are undertaken to achieve the company's business and strategic objectives. The enterprise performance management element of Integrated Business Planning provides the platform for monitoring execution of the company's operational and business strategies and goals.

The above simply cannot happen without senior leadership involvement in the process. Involvement means just that - active, high-profile involvement, and not just lip service support.

The S&OP/IBP Process

Each step of the Sales and Operations Planning/Integrated Business Planning process (product management review, demand review, supply review, financial appraisal, and management business review) has a senior leadership team owner, and ownership and involvement is not delegated. The management business review is the president/CEO/COO's meeting, and the participants are the senior leadership team representing product management, sales and marketing, supply management, strategy and finance. Additionally, key functional support leaders of quality, human resources, public relations etc. are represented.

With the senior leadership team's active involvement in S&OP/IBP, the leadership culture changes. Instead of thinking in terms of what is best from a functional perspective, the leadership team provides direction and makes decisions based on what is best for the company overall. What evolves is the development of common agendas and goals.

When Sales and Operations Planning/Integrated Business Planning is first implemented, a leadership culture that emphasizes teamwork in working toward common goals and agendas typically does not exist. That is because trust, openness, and honesty often have not yet been established.

With strong chief executive leadership in the S&OP/IBP process, trust will evolve. It comes from focusing on the business issues and opportunities, looking forward across the entire 24-month planning horizon while keeping the best interest of the whole company in mind. It comes from the chief executive's well-articulated and frequently reinforced expectation that truth will drive the process, and misbehavior will not be tolerated. Examples of misbehaviors that are destructive to the objectives of the S&OP/IBP process include disguising the truth (hedging and "sandbagging" that is not communicated, for example) and making decisions outside the S&OP process without the leadership team's participation.

Trust and openness also become key organizational values when performance measures focus on the achievement of the strategy and performance improvement. If a functional group is penalized for doing what is best for the company, teamwork dissolves. This can occur, for example, when a commercial group's demand plan is reduced because there is insufficient capacity to fulfill demand, but the commercial group's revenue goal upon which commissions are based is not likewise adjusted.

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