SWOT Analysis - An Important Business Tool
160 Key Business Questions makes SWOT Analysis simple and effective! Wizard's Publishers releases handy guide for business owners, senior level executives, middle managers, job applicants, consultants and students.
(PRWEB) February 3 2004--Answer these questions - and you have a
comprehensive SWOT Analysis - your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
Knowledge Is Power!
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Introducing
160 Key Business Questions
Comprehensive SWOT Analysis has many
applications:
Ask them straight up as questions
Use them to focus
discussions and to provide a framework for priorities and action plans
Use them to explain - functions, strategies
Use them to
facilitate - recruiting, effecting change, new employee orientation
Use
them to identify critical issues
Use them for personal effectiveness -
find out the answer then pose the problem
Use them as motivators - to
challenge and stimulate teams
Answer these questions and you will have
the key to personal growth and success for your business.
There are
literally dozens of effective uses you will find for the questions, because
these aren't just any questions...
they are a carefully compiled list of
KEY questions...
questions that drive to the core of organizational
behavior...
questions that demand to be answered if you want to soar
with the eagles...
[of course, if your quest is to spend the entire year
in continual preparation for Thanksgiving and the turkey, sorry, but the Wizard
can't help you there!].
Based on Research and Best
Practices
Our “160 Key Business Questions” were researched and compiled
from organizations that have been very successful in using bench marking and
best practices techniques and strategies.
Learn from the best... as
someone observed, "it is easier to copy success that invent mediocrity."
Who Can Benefit From This List Of Critical
Questions?
Family
Business Owners
Use the 160 Key Business Questions to differentiate
family issues from business issues – are you a family first business or a
business first family?
Use the 160 Key Business Questions to explain
business functions and strategies to family members who are stakeholders in the
business but who do not work in the business.
Use the 160 Key Business
Questions to facilitate the “formalization” of business functions and controls –
establishing better processes for the entire management team.
Use the
160 Key Business Questions to encourage personal growth and development by
researching and gaining a better understanding of each of these questions and
the “cause and effect” relationships to your business.
Use the 160 Key
Business Questions to facilitate the recruiting process for members of your
Advisory Board or your Board of Directors.
Use the 160 Key Business
Questions to develop agendas for family business retreats.
Use the 160
Key Business Questions to gain a better understanding of the strengths and
weaknesses of your organization.
Use the 160 Key Business Questions as
part of your succession planning process – to set goals and action plans that
will ensure the survivability of the business.
Use the 160 Key Business
Questions when preparing to do a business valuation – to learn what factors that
would increase or enhance the value of your business.
Use the 160 Key
Business Questions when doing new employee orientations – to explain how your
family values impact the decision-making process in your company.
Job
Search and Employment Interview Candidates
Use the 160 Key Business
Questions to focus and highlight skills and experience when preparing resume.
Use the 160 Key Business Questions to craft headlines for action items
in resume "cover letters".
Use the 160 Key Business Questions to help in
structuring letters seeking to schedule interviews.
Use the 160 Key
Business Questions to aid in "scripting" sound bites for use in telephone
interviews.
Use the 160 Key Business Questions to facilitate the
dissemination of personal/professional information when networking.
Use
the 160 Key Business Questions to establish your compatibility to company values
and management style.
Use the 160 Key Business Questions to control the
interview process by asking questions not merely answering them.
Use the
160 Key Business Questions to connect your broad base of general management
experience to new job or business environments.
Use the 160 Key Business
Questions to better articulate personal performance characteristics and
capabilities when switching or changing career fields.
Use the 160 Key
Business Questions to create a "dynamic impression" with peers and subordinates
when starting a new job or assignment.
Senior Executives
Use
the 160 Key Business Questions to select discussion topics when coaching or
mentoring junior executives – especially those who might be on a fast track.
Use the 160 Key Business Questions to encourage employee feed-back from
different levels and departments in your company.
Use the 160 Key
Business Questions as a foundation to explore new initiatives – “What do you
think of the idea of conducting a ‘customer satisfaction’ survey and how would
we go about setting it up”?
Use the 160 Key Business Questions to
develop a framework for developing priorities and action plans.
Use the
160 Key Business Questions as a diagnostic tool in developing change management
strategies.
Use the 160 Key Business Questions when interviewing
candidates for key management positions.
Junior
Executives / Middle Managers
Use the 160 Key Business Questions as a
blueprint in your career development strategy – asking questions when you know
the answer!
Use the 160 Key Business Questions to bring critical issues
to the attention of senior management “why don't we do a better job….”
Use the 160 Key Business Questions to gain a better understanding of how
senior managers feel about various issues and to measure their individual
commitment to corporate goals and strategies.
Use the 160 Key Business
Questions to develop your leadership skills within your department.
Use the
160 Key Business Questions to identify topics or business tactics where you need
additional study.
Use the 160 Key Business Questions to identify high
visibility projects that would enhance your resume.
Use the 160 Key
Business Questions when transiting from college course to real world situations.
Consultants &
Advisors
Use the 160 Key Business Questions as a diagnostic tool with new
or potential clients.
Use the 160 Key Business Questions to defense against
scope-creep in consulting engagements.
Use the 160 Key Business
Questions to develop inter-disciplinary teams.
Use the 160 Key Business
Questions as a training guide when doing organizational development projects.
Use the 160 Key Business Questions in helping your client prioritize
issues and to enable you to gain a better understanding of your client’s
expectations.
Students
Use in
structuring and preparing reports...
... in your part time job
And
take it with you to your first management job
Owners - Have a management
meeting coming up and need a lively and thought provoking discussion topic to
"light a fire"?
Senior Executive - annual review coming up with a
promising junior manager?
Junior Manager - new employee starting and you
want to get them off to a rousing start?
Advisor - meetings seem to lack
focus and fire - not sure that everyone even has a song sheet - let along
singing from the same one?
The 160 Key Business Questions will give you
that topic, that reminder, that exciting point to focus on...
in just a
few minutes...
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