Implementing Strategy

Overview

This workshop provides a clear, logical process for translating high-level organisational strategy into practical activity. It highlights the key steps and potential pitfalls along the way and provides a rounded view of the issues and challenges which will impact on achieving the desired results.

Benefits to you and your organisation

You will benefit from having a clear understanding of how to organise and prepare for successful strategy implementation. You will also learn how to get your strategy implementation off to a good start, keep it on track, deliver the desired results and learn from your real time experiences.

Strategy can only impact on the bottom line if it is successfully implemented. Many would argue that drafting a strategy is the easy part and that the key challenge lies in its proper implementation. This workshop provides a framework for successful strategy implementation.

Who this course is for

This workshop is suitable for any manager who is responsible for implementing organisational strategy including its strategic and operational aspects. This could include managers who are leading teams, business units or business development programmes. The workshop would also help those who are involved in organisational strategy implementation from any of the key functions such as the marketing and sales teams.

What you will learn

How to use a framework-based approach to implementing strategy with the key tools, techniques and approaches needed to:

• Translate high-level strategy into practical goals and objectives.
• Identify where your organisation’s culture needs to change in order to remove barriers to success.
  
• Identify and make plans to fill gaps in your organisation’s capability.
• Develop techniques to win and retain stakeholder support.
• Design and put in place a practical balanced performance management system to ensure things get done right and the right things get done.
• Ensure that the key learning points from strategy implementation are used to develop organisational capability.

Course content

• Strategy implementation – the key challenges and barriers to organisational success.
• A high level framework for strategy implementation within an organisation.
• Understanding the key needs of the ‘start point’ for strategy implementation.
• Building the right foundations for successful strategy implementation within an organisation.
• Initiation and execution of key elements of the strategy implementation.
• Specialist topics, including collaboration and partnerships as tools for strategy implementation.
• Journey management, to ensure timely delivery of key activities.
• Learning, growing and building on implementation experience.

Learning approach

This course combines presentation and discussion with learning point illustration using case examples and group exercises.