Finally, assess the seams of the organization, those places where competitive value is truly created. Resolve any border wars or disconnects quickly. Put in place critical linking mechanisms to bridge boundaries. Help your executive team glue the organization together for maximum cohesion and minimal misalignment.
Stay grounded in your competitive context. Regularly expose your team to external knowledge, grounding them in a common understanding of the business, industry and competitive set. Ensure parochial views are exposed and expunged. Move talent around for maximum knowledge and the widest perspective on the organization. Remove leaders who can’t make it.
Break down organizational inner circles by opening networks of relationships to many. Ensure your relationships with the board, top customers and external constituents model genuine trust-based connections the organization will emulate.
WHAT DOES ‘EXCEPTIONAL’ LOOK LIKE?
Our research revealed consistent patterns of effectiveness among the best-performing executives. The exemplars were exceptional at the following four dimensions:
Choice: The ability to assemble the right information and construct complex decisions and solutions with the right balance of data, input from others, intuition and analysis. In addition to a well-defined process for making and communicating decisions, they sustain a consistent focus and alignment on the critical few choices they have made to avoid overwhelming the system with too many priorities, and enhancing the potential for success of deployed resources.
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1:00 - 5:00 pm
Over 70% of Executives Surveyed Agree: Many Strategic Planning Efforts Lack Systematic Approach Tips for Enhancing Your Strategic Planning Process
Executives expressed frustration with their current strategic planning process. Issues include:
Steve Rutan and Denise Harrison have put together an afternoon workshop that will provide the tools you need to address these concerns. They have worked with hundreds of executives to develop a systematic approach that will enable your team to make better decisions during strategic planning. Steve and Denise will walk you through exercises for prioritizing your lists and steps that will reset and reinvigorate your process. This will be a hands-on workshop that will enable you to think about your business as you use the tools that are being presented. If you are ready for a Strategic Planning tune-up, select this workshop in your registration form. The additional fee of $695 will be added to your total.
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Female leaders face the same issues all leaders do, but they often face additional challenges too. In this peer session, we will facilitate a discussion of best practices and how to overcome common barriers to help women leaders be more effective within and outside their organizations.
Limited space available.
10:30 - 5:00 pm
General’s Retreat at Hermitage Golf Course
Sponsored by UBS
General’s Retreat, built in 1986 with architect Gary Roger Baird, has been voted the “Best Golf Course in Nashville” and is a “must play” when visiting the Nashville, Tennessee area. With the beautiful setting along the Cumberland River, golfers of all capabilities will thoroughly enjoy the golf, scenery and hospitality.
The golf outing fee includes transportation to and from the hotel, greens/cart fees, use of practice facilities, and boxed lunch. The bus will leave the hotel at 10:30 am for a noon shotgun start and return to the hotel after the cocktail reception following the completion of the round.
