Mike Desjardins

Mike Desjardins

Mike Desjardins is a transformation specialist at Virtus, a strategic planning and leadership development consultancy based in Vancouver for entrepreneurial business as well as public companies.

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How to Master the Art of Influence

Want to lead with conviction? Follow these principles to win the hearts and minds of those around you

7 Essential Behaviours of Great Leaders

Learn to model the behaviours you want to see and you'll be well on your way to executing your company's strategy

Building a Culture of Execution

Seven ways to shift your culture to one that can carry out your business plan and acheive your goals

Setting high quality objectives

Strategic objectives can only truly be achieved through the aligned efforts of teams of committed, motivated, and engaged people. Objectives at every level should always emerge from corporate priorities or ...

Matching your budget to your strategic plan

Budgeting or strategic planning, which one comes first? The challenge of building an effective budget ahead of the strategic plan for the next year is that, in most cases, you ...

Nine Ways to Focus Your Strategic Plan

Building framework and process for your strategic plan that will ensure you focus on what’s important

Why you failed

The conversation normally begins like this, “We’ve tried strategic planning in the past but somehow it allows seems to fall by the way side. No matter what method we try, ...

Best books on business

There is no “right” strategic planning methodology that works for every company or organization. In fact, using a blended approach to create a customized methodology is most likely going to ...

Choose your own “Wildly Courageous Decision”

Motivation and inspiration are closely connected to doing meaningful work. For most people, doing meaningful work translates into achieving something either on a personal, local or global level that makes ...

What is SWOT?

If you have done a strategic planning session in your organization then you are familiar with SWOT analysis: uncovering the inherent strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats which form the basis ...

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An entrepreneur’s guide to the 7 habits of highly INEFFECTIVE salespeople—and to how to overcome them