OPERATIONALIZING YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN
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Operationalizing Your Strategic Plan Approach
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Engagement Within Your Organiza5on
Inability to Transi5on Your Strategy to Ac5on 2
Failure to Conduct Regular Reviews 3
Employee Ac5on Not Aligned to Your Strategy 4
1 Solu5on #1
Solu5on #2
Solu5on #3
Solu5on #4
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Critical Issue #1: Engagement Within the Organization
“Actively disengaged employees -- the least productive -- cost the American economy an estimated $350 billion per year in lost productivity.”
- The Gallup Business Journal
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Solution #1: The Engagement Conversation
Key Player
Manage Closely
Keep Informed
Two Way Communica5on
Keep Sa5sfied
Keep Informed
Influ
ence
High Priority
Low Priority
Low Priority
Moderate Priority
Moderate Priority
High Priority
Interest
• Vision? • S.W.O.T
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Critical Issue #2: Inability to Transition Your Strategy to Action
Strategy
Strategic Plan
Individual Plan
“Companies realize only 63% of the financial performance their strategies promise because of defects and breakdowns in planning and execution. More than 1/3 placed
the figure at less than 50%.”
- Harvard Business Review, Fall 2004
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Solution #2: Project Plan and Scorecard
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Critical Issue #3: Failure to Conduct Regular Reviews
“Less than 15% of companies make it a regular practice to go back and compare the business’s results with performance forecast.”
- Harvard Business Review, Fall 2004
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Solution #3: Establish the 3 Types of Meetings
Tac5cal Review Review current status of weekly ac5vi5es and progress since last mee5ng.
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Quarterly Strategic Review Discuss strategic or higher level issues that effect the medium to long term.
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Annual Management Review Review all inputs and outputs of the management system ensuring their con5nuing suitability and effec5veness.
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Critical Issue #4: Employee Action Not Aligned to Your Strategy
“Only 7% of employees today fully understand their company’s business strategies and what’s expected of them in order to help achieve the company goals.”
- Driving Success: The Incredible Power of Company-‐Wide Goal Alignment. SuccessFactors 2007
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Solution #4: The Weekly Productivity Transformer
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Tac5cal Review Review current status of weekly ac5vi5es and progress since last mee5ng
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Operationalizing Your Strategic Plan Solutions to the 4 Critical Issues
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Engagement Within Your Organiza5on
Inability to Transi5on Your Strategy to Ac5on 2
Failure to Conduct Regular Reviews 3
Employee Ac5on Not Aligned to Your Strategy 4
1 The Engagement Conversa5on
Project Plan and Scorecard
Establish the 3 Types of Mee5ngs
The Weekly Produc5vity Transformer
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