Accelerate
Why Strategy Execution is Difficult
Benjamin Franklin famously said: “Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”
Strategy execution is difficult to impossible without proper preparation through effective assessment, planning and transformation.
Failure to intentionally do the work through these essential steps sets the stage for mediocrity at best, or at worst - failure.
Most organizations choose not to do the heavy lifting. Instead, they hurry through or worse yet - skip these steps and and ultimately prepare to fail. Our process ensures that you have the groundwork for successful strategy execution.
The Benefits of Working with Experienced Advisors
STRATEGIC MINDSET
Your “edge” - your competitive advantage is the continuous evolution of your “economic moat”. A strategic mindset is absolutely essential to shape your future through Blue Ocean Strategies.
EXECUTION FOCUSED
Hope is never a strategy when it comes to execution. Accelerating your business model or mission requires the right things getting done right through clear objectives, KPIs and accountability.
FAST FEEDBACK LOOPING
Fast feedback looping is essential to Acceleration because it facilitates fast evolution - double down on what adds value and stop doing what does not.
Resources to Accelerate Your Team
Start aligning strategy and execution with these resources that help you Assess, Accelerate, and Transform your Team's mindset and behaviors.
Synergy Between People,
Process, and Production
Synergy occurs in the presence of the rare alignment of People, Process, and Production toward business goals. This synergy is called Acceleration. Great Leaders understand this alignment and work to ensure that the pieces are in place to Accelerate their Team's potential.
When you invest the resources to fully Accelerate your Team, you gain dramatically increased profits, a fulfilling Team culture, maximized brand value, Customer evangelists, and a unified vision.
There is absolutely nothing as critical to determining the future of your company as your People.
Over the last twenty years, we have helped Leaders to develop their People using talent management strategies that transform companies into great workplaces.
Great Leaders know how to identify and hire talent to fit the job, coach and manage team members based on their individual personality style, shape the desired culture, and build teams that work together effectively.
Commit to a future of productivity and profitability by deciding to bring on only the best talent. Then, use the steps of Assess, Transform, and Accelerate to hire, coach, and unleash potential consistently.
Systems create accountability as an essential part of talent management. Systems ensure that the right things get done correctly and consistently. We help our clients create the right accountability with training and systems.
With the right performance and personal accountability measurement systems, an organization can radically increase their ROI, improve profit margins, and enhance the bottom line.
Improving the level of personal workplace accountability in your Organization through systems empowers everyone to perform at their best. When workplace accountability is addressed in a meaningful way that motivates and rewards performance, the sky truly is the limit in terms of company wealth and individual success.
A team's Culture is their collective personality that shapes the environment, how they work together, and how things get done. Teams that are held accountable Accelerate.
Companies that balance accountability with their team's unique experiences and behaviors Accelerate. Companies can create missions, visions, and guiding values in an attempt to shape the future. Still, they must continuously measure their cultures and ensure the right talent, systems, and accountabilities are in place to create their desired cultures.
Attempts to improve organizational performance without culture-building is a recipe for mediocrity. We work with Clients to seamlessly integrate culture-building into your strategy to enhance your overall success.
Hope is not a strategy. Do you hope that the outcome will be the best possible? Do you hope your executive team works together more effectively?
The single biggest challenge we see again and again and again is that the Client we are coaching has not decided the outcome. They are busy hoping things will work out for the best. The first step and the single biggest key to making any successful decision, whether large or small, is to decide what you really want. Then make it happen.
Your strategy is a direct reflection of the potential of your talent and the predictability of your systems. Let's build one together.
Accountability Loop
WHAT OUR CLIENTS ARE SAYING
Clarity
We create high-value Organizations by helping solve the most expensive kind of problem – human capital. Our Clients depend on us to provide clarity around the hiring, development, and coaching of their Leadership and Teams.
- Clarity leads to better decision-making.
- Our data-driven approach means you get objective clarity.
- Clarify your mission, vision, and guiding values.
Pressure
Constant, gentle pressure leads to continuous optimization. Pressure is the tool for Leaders and Team members who strive for excellence. They are always seeking an edge and apply pressure to shape their Teams, never settling.
- Great Teams must be challenged.
- Apply pressure to realize potential.
- The key is accountability to activity and results coupled with constant gentle pressure.
Perspective
Leaders and Team members have their own personalities, potential, and perspectives. Perspectives are inherently limited but can be expanded through data analysis, studying, and improved thought habit patterns.
- Team members can improve their perspectives with an open mind.
- Perspectives are malleable.
- Aligned perspectives lead to Team performance improvements.
Execution
Execution is the commitment to the work to be done as defined by an upfront strategy. Execution is a function of mindset, where your Team is both motivated and aligned to the right activities that will improve the bottom line for your Organization.
- Strategy without committed execution is meaningless.
- Establish a culture of execution with planning, a clear vision, and accountability.
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