Course 1: Translating Strategy into Results
Duration - 2 Days
Language - English
Level - Advanced
About the Course
Translating Strategy into Results sensitizes leaders to the mindset necessary to think and act strategically as they lead and execute work in their organizations. Attendees focus on the mutually supportive skills of translating the larger organizational strategy to their own work and architecting their own strategies for executing this work. Additionally, participants learn the importance of having a strategic frame of reference that maintains the alignment of strategy with the critical domains of operations and people to enable effective implementation and desired results.
This course addresses the gap between strategy and its execution, which is a major challenge for many organisational transformations. The course creates leaders that can achieve results in strategy implementation by taking participants through case studies and exercises that expose and provide solutions for the eight major challenges in results-based strategy implementation.
Participants Will Learn How To:
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Understand the purpose and core elements of a strategy and apply them in your context.
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Explore the leader’s role in aligning, translating, and implementing strategy.
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Review common strategy implementation challenges and techniques for addressing them.
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Build the agility and adaptability to look ahead and adapt strategy to changing contexts
Course Modules
Each of the following modules contains the listed learning topics.
Module1
Welcome & Introduction
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The Advanced Leadership Program Framework.
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What's your experience with strategy?
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The course learning objectives.
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The course learning journey.
Module 2
Perspective on Strategy
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A shared defintion of strategy.
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Your role as a strategic leader.
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The Hambrick Strategy Model questions.
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Applying the model your organisation.
Module 3
Alignment & Connections
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A shared defintion of alignment.
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Cascading alignment across the organisation.
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Top alignment challenges
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Applying the Strategy Diamond at multiple levels.
Module 4
Execution
Challenges
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From Strategic Plan to successful execution.
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Top reasons why strategy execution fails.
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Where and how leaders make a difference.
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Identifying your points of greatest impact.
Module 5
Mapping the Way Forward
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From Translating to Doing.
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Priorities, Staging and Sequencing.
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Milestones and small wins.
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Building Momentum and celebrating success.
Module 6
Compelling
Communications
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Good translators create meaning.
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Elements of a compelling message.
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Seeking and incorporating input.
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Being ready with two-minute elevator versions.
Module 7
Agility
& Adaptability
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Strategy requires adjustings course along the way.
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Developing a "Ready for Change Mindset."
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Revisiting and refining metrics, routines, communication and priorities.
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Enabling the 'Doers' to do what they do best.
