Summary: <a href="http://brianjpombo.com/pdca-plan-do-check-adjust/"></a><br> <br> <br> <a href="http://DreamBizChat.com">http://DreamBizChat.com</a><br> <br> <br> <br> P D C A. Plan, Do, Check, Adjust.<br> <br> <br> <br> Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to BrianJPombo.com. Today going to be talking about really straight-forward principles. <br> <br> <br> <br> One of these things. <br> <br> <br> <br> So simple, easy to discount it, easy to pass it by and not think about it. And especially if you’re a business owner or you’re an executive and you’ve kind of worked your way up and you’re used to being spontaneous.<br> <br> <br> <br> I know my whole life I’ve always been kind of a more spontaneous character.<br> <br> <br> <br> I like going by the seat of my pants and I like just trying things out and doing different things and not really doing the tedious stuff.<br> <br> <br> <br> Trying to stay away from the tedious.<br> <br> <br> <br> When I first started getting into the world of business, I had people that I looked up to, they said the most important thing for you to do is to do goal setting and all this other stuff.<br> <br> <br> <br> And the stuff always repelled me.<br> <br> <br> <br> I never quite knew why till understood more about conation to kind of get a feel for that or look up Kathy Kolbe’s work.<br> <br> <br> <br> But planning, doing, checking, adjusting.<br> <br> <br> <br> It’s a big cycle so you plan something out and that’s usually what people talk about when they talk about goal setting, plan something out, I want to do this, I want to do it by this period of time and that’s it.<br> <br> <br> <br> The plans in place, it’s been written down, I’ve declared it, I’ve repeated it in front of a mirror or whatever, but there’s something more to it than that and it’s all about planning it, doing it and then checking it.<br> <br> <br> <br> So going back and reviewing what you’ve done to see if it fits the original plan or not, and then adjusting.<br> <br> <br> <br> You’re either adjusting the plan itself or you’re adjusting how you’re attacking the plan or where you’re going next with it.<br> <br> <br> <br> Boy, those last things really bothered me too about about checking. I’ve got to go back and look at what I just did. I’d rather just leave that best behind me.<br> <br> <br> <br> Just keep moving and keep moving.<br> <br> <br> <br> But that cycle is very important.<br> <br> <br> <br> Each piece of it’s very important the way I’ve found how to do it for myself. Now maybe you’ve been able to do this for yourself. And you’re more than likely gonna have people that you end up working with.<br> <br> <br> <br> Either people you’re mentoring or employees or coworkers that are going to have a tough time with it and you’re going to have to walk them through it and you’ve got to be patient with people because not everybody thinks this way.<br> <br> <br> <br> I’m one of these that doesn’t naturally think that way.<br> <br> <br> <br> Although I see the value in it.<br> <br> <br> <br> When you’re running a business long-term, you have to have systematizing, you have to have things that make sense, and you’ve got to keep things on track at least to an extent. And for that, you’ve got a plan.<br> <br> <br> <br> You’ve got to take that plan into action.<br> <br> <br> <br> You gotta do it, you gotta check to make sure that you did it right and then you’ve got to adjust to get yourself back on track. You’ve got to do that over and over and over again.<br> <br> <br> <br>
