Introduction and Overview

·        Understand the importance of strategy and of having a strategy-focused organization

·        Learn the terms used for strategy development, strategic planning, and strategic management

·        Understand different approaches and models used to develop strategy

·        Learn tools and techniques for creating clearer, and more coherent and measurable strategy and strategic plans

·        Understand the relationship between strategy development, strategic planning, and strategy execution

·        Introduce the five critical strategy execution management process – the SE Imperatives

Leadership & Governance

·        Understand why strong leadership and governance are foundational to creating high performance

·        Understand the obstacles to successful leadership and governance

·        Learn the attributes of good leaders

·        Understand differences in roles and responsibilities of leaders and managers at all levels in the organization

·        Learn principles of good leadership and good governance

·        Learn how to set meaningful goals

·        Learn how to communicate with clarity

Performance Culture

·        Understand and be able to define your organization’s culture

·        Learn how strategic communication contributes to a performance culture

·        Understand how change management contributes to a performance culture

·        Understand the challenges of sustaining a performance culture and how to overcome them

Aligning and Operationalizing Strategy

·        Understand organization alignment and misalignment

·        Understand how to align (cascade) strategy from corporate level to operating levels and to employees

·        Learn how to translate a corporate strategic plan into strategic operating plans

Understand how to incorporate strategy 

Project and Portfolio Management

·        Understand the importance of project/portfolio management (P/PM) to successful strategy execution

·        Prioritize strategic and operational projects

·        Increase awareness of strategic project management

·        Understand roles and responsibilities of leaders and managers for successful strategic P/PM

·        Report progress and performance to influence strategy

·        Understand organizational structure options for managing strategic projects -- Strategy

·        Management Office (SMO) and Project Management Office (PMO)

Performance Analysis, Reporting and Informing

·        Learn how to measure and collect meaningful performance data

·        Learn how to verify and validate data

·        Understand how to transform performance data into performance information, and performance information into business intelligence

·        Learn how to communicate performance information visually

·        Learn how to add context to performance information

·        Understand roles and responsibilities for reporting performance

·        Learn how to create and deploy performance reports that are used and useful