Using historical data in team discussions cuts guesswork and builds consensus. When everyone sees the same numbers, you spot risks faster, understand what worked, and plan the next year with confidence instead of hunches.
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So you can also have improved collaboration because now you're coming to the table with data that other people can understand too. It's not just you that's seen the data. It's data. It's not just the way it works for your brain. You can actually have it laid out so that your whole team can see what that looks like and you can share that information. And it also fosters that cohesive relationship in the planning process. If you have other people in the planning process, it allows for a more open dialogue in terms of like the historical information coming forward and the choices we're going to make strategically. Moving forward. And of course, you know, when you're looking at strategic planning moving forward, it's important to identify what happened in the past. It can help you identify maybe potential risks moving forward in your business, thinking about what is it that happened here and how can we either mitigate those or how can we change things so that that doesn't happen again. Obviously, the other piece to that is what worked really well and how do I move that into my strategic planning for next year as well. So sometimes we can mitigate those unforeseen changes because of things that we have looked previously for in our business, things that have happened that we're like, oh, I didn't expect that to come out of left field. How can I now mitigate for next time? How can I see how to make those changes so that next time when this