Mission to Million$ – Taking Big Ideas and Making Them Reality

Detailed Course Content

Module 1 – What is your big idea(s) and why isn’t it done yet?

• Why do 99.9% of ideas in your head fail to launch?
• Vision Paralysis
• Goals and gratitudes – why goals and gratitude can fail
• Survival vs. Thrival states of being
• Individual level impacts of each state of being
• Corporate/organizational level impacts on revenue, profits, innovation and
• employee satisfaction
• Where did all those good ideas go?

Module 2 – The Stages of Idea Growth (or Death)

• The Stagnation Model of Project/Idea Development
• The Expansion Model of Project/Idea Development

Module 3 – Shift Your Mind (and your Culture) to Idea Implementation

• Awareness
• Anchoring your vision
• Action

Module 4 – Why so many ideas fail when you try to communicate them…

• How we communicate versus how the human mind listens
• How to fertilize your idea through communication
• 5 words that sabotage all ideas/projects and increase change of failure
• Advocates, allies, and other important support systems
• Mastering your One-minute mission message (Your OM3)

Module 5 – Your emotional baggage

• The 7 Voices in Your Head that Kill Your Ability to Implement
• Overcoming objections (your own and others)

Module 6 – Building your Idea Project Team

• The key characteristics of high performing teams
• The Leadership Compass
• Identifying and capitalizing on learning and management styles to drive high performance
• Who people are being is often more important then what they know – building the right team to deliver high performance
• How big should your team be?
• How do you find the right team? (internal and external networking)

Module 7 – Building your call to action (Your business case)

• Do you speak the language of leadership, strategy, finances, technology, marketing & sales, human resources?
• The power of the new social media environments to drive change and idea implementation
• Excellence over perfection
• Effective case/project design
• Root cause analysis to solve the right problem the first time!

Module 8 – Building your fan base

• Are you ‘donor-centric’ – Why most change initiatives fail to implement or fail once implemented
• Who are the five personalities that support (or kill) your idea
• Defining your ideal idea avatar(s)
• Building your idea to 1MM fans, supporters, customers (or whatever your goal is)

Module 9 – Commit or quit

• How we have been taught to write bad goals, bad plans and therefore, torpedo our execution
• Technology and culture – the intersection to making ideas succeed or fail
• The simple project framework and strategic plan
• Making it last – why most organizations and teams fail in the first five years and how you won’t

Module 10 – PLAN IT, PRACTICE IT, BUILD IT (Optional)

• This module is an optional and highly recommended practicum where the teams can work one-on-one in an intense immersion experience with Ms. Frisch to get their entire plan in place as well as practice key components ‘soft skills’ to be sure that they walk into work on Monday morning ready to go!