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Use these FREE resources to get a taste of the types of tools and exercises that Greg Bustin uses as a strategic planning consultant and leadership development workshop facilitator to help executives increase their effectiveness and improve business performance.

Leadership Exercises

How does your business currently score on the key tenets that deliver success?

Accountability Assessmentclient favorite

How does your company rate on accountability in the workplace? Take this online assessment to instantly discover your organization’s overall effectiveness quotient and how it compares to 100s of small- and mid-size businesses.

Take the 10-minute assessment on Accountability in the Workplace.

The Seven Fs (63 KB)

What will the seven significant categories in your life look like one year from today?

Reflections & Outlook

Every December, I distribute to the leaders I work with a version of a document first developed by fellow Vistage Chair John Younker more than 10 years ago. I revise the document every year to help leaders reflect on the past year and think about what they want to accomplish in the year ahead.

You can download for free until December 31, 2011, the entire four-page document:

Reflections on 2011 + Outlook for 2012 (107 KB)

Strategic Planning Resources

These strategic planning tools help leadership teams think differently about themselves and their organization. More important, they identify critical individual and organizational issues that must be addressed to become a high performance company.

• Strategic Planning Process (25 KB)
• Migration Chart (16 KB) client favorite
• The Organization’s Soul – Overlooked KPIs (43 KB)
• The Secret of Success (16 KB)

Company/Brand Positioning Tools

These tools are simple but powerful – but that does not mean easy. Most organizations discover that that they require spirited debate, hard choices and discipline.

• Identity Pyramid (12 KB) client favorite
• Positioning Formula (22 KB)
• Positioning Formula Template (18 KB)

Greg Bustin's Podcast - “Becoming a High Performance Company”

Recorded for Vistage International on the value of strategic planning:

In The News

Dallas Morning News, January 28, 2011
Fort Worth Business Press, October 5, 2009