Developing High-Performance Strategy
Laying the foundation for tomorrow’s success, while competing to win today

Changing demographics, new technologies, aggressive competition, and sophisticated consumers demand that organizations change the way they do business or face extinction. Many organizations will survive by making marginal improvements to what they have done in the past. But those that will thrive welcome change, and actually renew themselves by aligning their business strategy closely with current and future realities.

Core Strategic Decisions

Strategy is defined as the way an organization meets the challenges and opportunities presented by its environment. Your business strategy is a set of choices about how you will deliver value to customers and distinguish your business from its competitors. By participating in the 360 Solutions Business Consulting program, you and members of your organization will:

  • Understand the challenges and opportunities present in your external environment.
  • Identify assumptions about the future.
  • Clarify a reason-for-being that motivates and inspires.
  • Identify the principles by which your employees and managers alike will conduct themselves.
  • Define your future customers and how you will deliver value to them.
  • Identify core organizational competencies needed to succeed in the long run.
  • Create a long-term business focus, and discover “anchors” that distinguish you from your competitors.
  • Set short-term performance goals.
  • Establish performance initiatives and a Master Plan to manage your organization’s long-term development.

    • An Imperative

    Formulating a clear and compelling business strategy is the most important task that management can accomplish. It is not something that would be nice to do when there is more time, but is essential – here and now – to business survival. It is often said that all organizations are perfectly designed to keep getting the same results they now get. Is that how you want your company to face the future?

    Assessing Your Organization for High Performance

    In this program, you will learn a model that reduces the complexities of your organization to seven key elements that account for its degree of success. These seven elements enable you to diagnose the current functioning of your organization, and to see where and how to make improvements.

    What Will You Do

    During our sessions you will:

  • Learn a model for understanding how your organization is really working.
  • Perform a comprehensive assessment of your organization’s current performance.
  • Benchmark your organization in relation to others within your community/industry.
  • Develop a shared understanding of your greatest strengths and weaknesses.
  • Target and prioritize the top opportunities for future growth.
  • Develop detailed improvement plans.

    • Structure and Format

    During each module of this hands-on program, you will:

  • Learn the meaning of one of the seven key elements of an organization’s performance.
  • Divide into small groups to assess your organization’s performance on this special element.
  • Re-convene and share your findings with the larger group.
  • Summarize and identify key learnings and opportunities.

    • The program can be delivered in a modularized format (2 1/2-to-3 hour sessions spaced over time) or in a 2-to-2 1/2-day format. It usually involves not only the leaders of the organization, but also other key people representing a cross-section of all employees.

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