Developing and implementing strategy

Programme agenda:

Based on global best practice of major consulting firms, participants will learn how to identify and develop opportunities and develop a strategy and how to engage their organisations or clients in implementing that strategy. Specifically they will:

Develop a framework and approach to assess strategy

  • Explore and develop market opportunities and internal requirements to capitalize on those opportunities
  • Develop business cases around each opportunities
  • Plan next steps effectively
  • Understand how to communicate at senior levels as a thinking partner and presenting your strategy recommendations succinctly and clearly
  • Learn how to enlist others and creating a compelling implementation roadmap

Overview

Our experience and research over the last two decades has identified how to assess and develop strategy and critically how to increase and focus people in a co-ordinated way to implement strategy. Leaders go through a number of phases as they master these invention, ignition and implementation skills:

Invention

  • Challenging your own and the organisation͛s assumptions about the future
  • Generating bold possibilities and scoping these into strategy, targets and projects
  • Becoming an ambassador of the vision and strategy, inspiring others

Ignition

  • Enlisting others as co-creators and creating organisational urgency
  • Putting people to the test and coaching them in the fundamentals of breakthrough performance
  • Building dragen slayer teams building a set of core values around all for one, and one for all teamwork

Implementation

  • Maintaining a future focus — delivering the vision through rigorous and co-ordinated action and communication
  • Converting opposition to momentum — winning over resistors and increasing energy and commitment through visible wins
  • Repeating successes whilst looking for the opportunities to consolidate progress and achieve further unprecedented goals

How individuals and organisations benefit from this programme

  • Greater view of what’s possible within  the business.
  • Greater motivation and alignment in their organisations and/or clients.
  • Clear framing of strategy.
  • A plan including stakeholder engagement, addressing risk and implementation issues and how to win over resistance to change.

How we will embed learning

  • Workshops with managers on the leadership and processes required to maximise ROI.
  • Use of online orientations and process and tool overviews
  • Participants work in teams on a live materials or relevant case studies (optional technology based simulation)
  • Highly experiential exercises and roleplays interspersed with tutor coaching, debriefs and peer reviews.
  • All case learning, processes and tools are applied to real world situations and integrated with existing approaches
  • Follow up coaching on live projects with online resources, reference videos and articles

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