With all your employees being unique, some of them may need extra reassurance in order to function, while others may be uncomfortable with praise or even indifferent.
Instead of using gut feel or other haphazard means, Lyndsay Swinton (Management for the Rest of Us, www.mftrou.com) suggests using Kurt Lewins Force Field Analysis as simple yet effective method to improve your decision making ability.
Strategic planning concerns anything that will bring results in anything from 1 year to 5 years or beyond. Its good management practice to raise your head above the daily grind every now and then, and take action now to positively affect your future.