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Designing Solutions for Innovation and Strategy

Learn how to roll out corporate strategy from the boardroom to the shop floor.

Executing Strategy for Executive Management

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This class is part of the Executive Management Certificate.

The global business landscape is littered with expansive, well intended strategies that failed. Why? Many strategies fail in execution because leaders often fail to identify and invest in the full range of the projects required to support those strategies. Even as strategists break their plans into doable chunks, they seldom work with project leaders effectively. Many leaders neglect to revise their company's strategic portfolio to fit the demands of the dynamic environment. And they lose touch with strategic initiatives long before projects realize their value to internal and external customers.

In this course, Dr. Sayan Chatterjee, renowned strategist, will provide senior managers with a powerful approach to rolling out corporate strategy from the boardroom to the shop floor. Citing examples of successful corporations, he will provide tools to ensure your strategic purpose is clear, understandable and actionable at every level of the organization. You will learn how to communicate goals with precision, ensuring the goals are congruent with your strategy, and how to carve these goals into discrete projects with measurable outputs. You will also learn how to cascade the execution of your plan throughout the organization, entrusting each management level to define projects that ultimately support the strategic goals you have set. Finally, you will learn how to fully engage employees in decision-making, broadening their awareness as they anticipate and overcome roadblocks, thereby maximizing their effectiveness in carrying out the plan.

Instructor Date and Time Location
Sayan Chatterjee, Ph.D. January 14, 2010 , 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Cleveland, OH Add to Cart

Topics

  • How to develop goal clarity
    • Case: How British Petroleum transformed itself to a sustainable organization
  • The roots of confusion in executing a strategy
    • Developing common perspective
    • Identifying the key uncertainties before embarking on execution
  • Organization structure, culture and the constraints to execution
  • Entrusting and engaging employees in decision-making
    • Protecting decision-processes from bias
    • Setting up a free market of ideas within an organization
    • Staying focused
  • Setting the plan into full operation
    • Mission
    • Rules of engagement

Learning Outcomes

As a result of attending this class, participants will:

  • Set and communicate purpose
  • Carve out the purpose into projects with clear deliverables
  • Drive execution with a focus on goals, not the means
  • Keep the plan relevant to changing business conditions
  • Overcome subtle communication barriers that can undermine even the best plans

Who Should Attend

Senior managers, director-level and above, who are engaged at the highest levels of strategic planning.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Recommended Prior Knowledge

Advanced. It is highly recommended that the participants also attend Chatterjee on Strategy. (These two programs -execution and strategy- are scheduled back-to-back).

Continuing Education Credits

PMI Project Managers 6 PDU
SPHR Professionals 6 CEU
PHR Professionals 6 CEU
OHIO CPA 8 CPE

Costs

Individual Participants: $570 by credit card; $595 by check
Affiliate/Health Affiliate Partners: One class day per participant