Is your company ready for change?
Category: Blog | Leadership | Strategy Implementation
Markets are commoditising and consolidating. There are new laws on their way. Brexit is getting nearer. Consumer trends are changing in the blink of an eye. Emerging global markets are being created daily. Successful leaders see these changes. In fact the best leaders not only have a viewpoint about how to respond to these changes,…
Tags: | Change, change management
5 Reasons why your strategic plan won’t work
Category: Blog | Strategy | Strategy Implementation
Time again, businesses hold strategy days, plan retreats and spend money on strategic planning sessions that don’t produce any lasting results. The session may go well and produce a sensible and comprehensible plan for everyone to follow, but progress hardly takes form. The plan barely gets off the ground before it’s pulled back down to…
Tags: | strategy execution
How to keep your strategic plan alive…
Category: Blog | Strategy Implementation
So, you’ve had a great strategy planning session with your team. Everybody left the session ready to hit your targets for the year and move the company one step closer to achieving your Big Hairy Audacious Goal. Unfortunately, even with everyone’s good intentions, running the day-to-day business can get in the way of making progress…
Tags: | leadership
How to align your values with your strategic plan
Category: Blog | Strategy Implementation | Team
Your business values consist of all of the behaviours that exist within your business – not just the positive values you want to have, but also negative or neutral behaviours that are being acted out. Values and behaviours are closely linked to your company culture and can have an impact on those within as well…
Tags: | culture
How to Develop a Growth Mindset Throughout Your Business
Category: Blog | Strategy Implementation
Keeping your team motivated and engaged is key if you’re aiming to maintain a positive workplace. If you’re able to develop staff who are happy, the benefits will feed right back into your business. A growth mindset amongst your team is critical to creating the right kind of environment in which individuals can thrive while…
3 Questions that keep CEO’s awake at night
Category: Strategy Implementation
As a coach I often ask CEO’s and directors what keeps them up at night. It turns out the answer is less varied than you might think. While they all say it a little differently, the answer almost always boils down to a variation of “How can I implement my strategy?” Turns out business leaders…
Tags: | implementation
How to improve your customer service…
Category: Blog | Strategy Implementation
A lot of companies I meet are under the illusion that they’re providing excellent customer service when they actually are not. A Customer Service Benchmark report revealed that while 80 percent of businesses it contacted believed they offered excellent customer service, only 8 percent of their customers agreed that that was true. It goes without…
Tags: | customer service
The 5 Steps for Successful Strategy Implementation
Category: Blog | Strategy Implementation
Having a great strategy, can catapult your company to the mainsteam market, but only solid execution can keep you there. Can you deliver your intent? Most companies can dream big and create a vision, but cannot execute. Robert Kaplan and David P Norton recently reported in the Harvard Business Review that 95% of employees are…
Tags: | leadership, strategy execution
KPI’s that drive behaviour
Category: Blog | Strategy Implementation
Delivering new sales revenue is a common theme that comes up with the clients I work with. In fact, I can’t think of a client that has more sales activity than they know what to do with, and most are always looking for ways to build or grow their sales pipeline. There a lot of…
Tags: | sales
How to share your strategic plan
Category: Leadership | Strategy | Strategy Implementation
At the end of all High Growth strategic workshops we allocate time to developing a communication plan on how to share the vision and strategy with the wider team. Communicating your strategic plan and vision just one time is not going to be enough. You need to constantly and consistently engage your team in the…
Tags: | communication, strategy execution
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