Until the Strategic Leadership Team is fully aligned and on the same page, all the other exercises are moot. This is the first step of the StratPro process. This episode describes tools and exercises to fully align the leadership team.
As Lewis Carroll wrote, if you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. A vision statement provides the direction for your organization. This episode explains how to create a concise, yet powerful vision for your organization, that will serve as a guide for future success.
This chapter is targeted toward owners of private businesses. This guides the owner through a process for identifying the vision for their life. This includes what they want to do, who they want to be and what they want to have. The goal is for the vision of the company and the owner to be aligned with each other.
Values are what an organization believes in. Culture is how they behave. Both are important and need to be in alignment. This episode walks through how to define the ideal values and culture for your organization.
Most organizations have org charts with roles and reporting relationships. Most do not have clearly defined accountabilities for each role. Taking this step leads to a more accountable organization.
One of the most important question for business leaders is do you have the right people in the right seats? This episode focuses on evaluating employees in terms of both skillset match for their job and cultural fit. Both are important to role alignment.
Do you know why your customers buy from you and not your competitors? If this isn't clear and compelling, listen to this episode.
A starting point for developing a strategic plan is a thorough assessment of the opportunities and gaps in your organization. This episode discusses this.
We recommend that all business leaders periodically take a really good look in the mirror. The SWOT analysis does just this, identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
Have you identified a small number of factors that are most important to your success? These are your critical success factors. They help you stay focused on your most important priorities.
This episode provides examples and methodologies for identifying and scoring risks. It also discusses which risks to focus on mitigating.
It's been proven that business leaders that have written goals are much more likely to achieve them. This episode focuses on the importance of goal setting.
Strategies are the approaches for getting goals accomplished. They take a complex goal and break it down into units that can be better managed and accomplished. This episode discusses strategies.
This episode describes the details of how to accomplish the Goals and Strategies of your strategic plan.
This episode focuses on developing KPIs for your business. These are what we see as the "vital signs" for your business. Both lead and lag KPIs are discussed.
This episode is focused on building out the detail of a strategic plan so it can be successfully executed.
There is no shortage of great strategic plans out there that never get implemented. The reason is that many organizations do not have the processes and focus to successfully execute a complex plan. This episode explains Execution & Accountability or E&A Meetings which focus on building a culture of accountability and getting plans executed.
This episode discusses StratPro's "turning the wheel" process for optimizing an organization's plan and performance. It is an annual retreat where each key step of the StratPro process is reviewed, discussed and improved. It's an important step that any high performing organization should undertake.