You know that wonderful feeling as you wrap a strategy development phase? There’s a collective sigh of relief as the ink dries, and the concise, inspiring and insightful strategy is sent to the designers – you have answers to the big questions of the next era of your purpose, impact and direction.
One big job done.
And yet, we know the journey doesn’t end there. What it took to get to the end of the strategy setting phase, is not what it will take to move through the execution phase. In organisational coaching terms, we’re shifting from a ‘what’ focus, to a ‘how’.
After everyone has taken a collective deep breath, we like to check in with our clients and ask:
- Have you considered how to co-design the execution plan for the next 12 months?
- Do you have a way to see the dependencies, assign roles and responsibilities, and phase the work in ways that sets everyone up for success?
- Do you have a simple system that rolls up effort into tracking and reporting – from managers, to executive, to Board?
- Have you considered how you design your Executive and Management team meetings and agendas so that strategy is the anchor?
This linking of strategy into ways of working and team behaviours is an important through-line that takes strategy into action.
As part of this work, we offer:
- Templates that we refine with you that turn the strategy into a roadmap.
- Processes that ensure buy-in at the operational level.
- Ways of working that embed ownership, collaboration and accountability.
- Practices, like celebrating progress, to ensure that strategy links to culture.
For us at Leadership Space, implementation is the critical next step of transformation.
