What you focus on grows. So what are you growing?
- 4 hours ago
- 2 min read
Last week, in a coaching conversation, a leader spent the first few minutes describing a challenging employee. The behavior she wanted corrected. The frustration she'd been carrying. The conversations she'd tried.
She had been focused on this person for months.
I realized where her focus was placed and said, "As I hear you talk, this phrase comes to mind...What you focus on grows." She paused, and I heard the shift in her understanding.
She had been growing the problem. And the strategic plan she kept putting off? Still sitting on the shelf, waiting for the right time.
Here's what I regularly see inside organizations. Leaders want to fix a disgruntled team member, get the lowest performer upleveled, or clear the overwhelm before they feel ready to cast a vision. The plan keeps getting delayed because something else always needs attention first.
But it actually works the other way around.
A strategic plan doesn't wait for calm. It creates it. It gives every person in the organization a North Star so decisions don't default to whoever is loudest or most persistent. Without one, it's like a boat where everyone has an oar and nobody agrees on where they're headed. A lot of energy gets spent. Very little ground gets covered.
Your job as a leader is to be the visionary. Not to fix everything first, then lead. To lead and let the vision do the heavy lifting for you. People will decide, through their actions, to be part of the plan...or not.
If your organization is heading into a new fiscal year without a strategic plan, or your current one has expired and hasn't been revisited, I'd love to talk. Even an abbreviated plan before 2026 wraps up is better than none.
If you know a leader who keeps waiting for the "right time" to build a plan, this one is for them too.
Always in your corner,
Halle
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