CREATIVE Strategic Planning - with JANUS Creative Planning
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JANUS is a VISUALISATION technique that ANYONE can use to improve their circumstances - work or personal. Rick created it from scratch as a result of getting fed up with executives he was trying to train being permanently pessimistic and negative about the future! "what's the point?" (of a training course, or even trying) - "just getting on with the job and doing my best" or wallowing in a blame culture - typically the government!
Faced with a demotivated team one day, he wrote on a white board "it is 12 months from now and you HAVE achieved ........" and asked them to be idealistic, aim high and describe the new, utopian situation in the future. The brainstorm that followed was tremendously cathartic - AND SUCCESSFUL - and JANUS Creative Planning was born! With the name registered and book written, the rest, as they say about the future, is history! (Janus is a Roman god with the ability to see both past and future sumultaneously)
Rick then started using the process with dental professionals and wrote this book, personalised for them and their challenges.
And JANUS can take no TIME! Because it is easy to learn and apply, it quickly becomes a NEW WAY OF THINKING. Instead of it taking extra time, you will find yourself instantly visualising and describing in your mind positive outcomes - and the resulting image (eg of the now convinced and grateful patient) will spur you on!
APPLICATIONS
A wonderful thing about JANUS is that, simply by thinking a little differently, ANYONE can use it - including in a group, like a practice meeting. To name but a few ......
60 pages - CLICK on this illustration of the cover to zoom in
PERSONALISATION of the book for YOUR practice / business
For a one-off consultancy fee of £500 Rick will.......
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email you a pro-forma asking for a profile of your practice and to consider the 8 topics below and prioritise them (force rank them) in importance at this point in time
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and then, visualising a future time, maybe 6 or 12 months, think about how you would like your most important 2 or 3 to have improved/changed by that date
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Rick will then from this information how he would recommend modifying book content to make it work for YOU
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consult with you as necessary to agree final content
1. patient care, 2. practice culture and working conditions, 3. teambuilding, team spirit, 4. creating SHARED objectives and ownership, 5. individual development (CPD) 6. problem solving 7. achieving practice objectives, strategy, marketing, 8. leadership/management
A couple of examples for illustration: (6 months in the future) and aiming high while being realistic
1. (patient care) we have reduced patient waiting time by half on average - AND patients are now even "enjoying" waiting!
2. (CPD) Mary is much more confident when on Reception now; she is even enjoying asking for money!