Professional Development

In today's turbulent economic environment, it is harder than ever for leaders, managers and staff to keep their eyes on the big picture. Each day may bring a new operational challenge. Tighter budgets. Staff reductions. New customer demands. As a result fire fighting replaces long-term thinking.

 

Strategic leadership is the art of creating a meaningful vision for your organization (or unit) and the science of providing the clarity, direction, commitment and goals that enable your team to fulfill strategic objectives.

 

• Motivate: Establish a vision that has meaningful, tangible goals
• Communicate: Use the Strategy Map to link operational goals to strategic success
• Execute: Define initiatives and actions to achieve goals
• Measure: Monitor progress and adapt as situations demand

Target Audience: Managers who must balance strategic goals with day-to-day operational challenges; senior leaders who must set the tone and direction for an organizational unit or units; coordinators of a project-based improvement program such as Six Sigma or BPM; leaders or HR Manager who sets performance management goals; members of a strategic planning task force.

Course Outline:

Executing Strategy in Turbulent Times

• Why strategic plans go unfulfilled
• Background: The need to think strategically

• Creating meaning and purpose
• Defining the vision in real terms
• Types of organizational strategies
• Product leadership
• Customer intimacy
• Operational excellence

• Identifying key themes
• The strategy map: linking key objectives
• Communicating strategic purpose to the entire organization

• Defining and prioritizing strategic initiatives
• Linking initiatives/goals to operations
• Defining measures of success
• The role of scorecards and dashboards