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Develop and Communicate Your Strategic Vision
Gary Harpst • Jun 15, 2022
A process to clarify your strategy for everyone in your organization.
Do you struggle with strategy?
- Have you been through a strategic planning process with little real change?
- Are your mission, values, and vision played out in the daily actions of your teams?
- Do your front-line leaders understand your unique strategy?
- Are you growing and want better communication of your vision?
The LeadFirst Framework Discipline I guides your team through a series of best practices to develop, commit to, and communicate your strategic vision.
Here are all the questions you will answer:
- Mission – What is our enduring purpose?
- Values – What is our character?
- Market Analysis – What does our market require?
- Competitive Analysis – How well is the market served?
- Vision Focus – What will we be best at?
- Strategic Themes – What will we invest in to deliver our difference?
- Scorecard: Growth Strategy – How will the organization grow?
- Scorecard: Customer Focus – How do we maintain a healthy focus on our customers?
- Scorecard: Operational Effectiveness – What must we be good at to operate effectively?
- Scorecard: People Focus – How do we focus on our employees?
Collaboration Software
making DI: Strategic Vision work
Get your strategy’s goals and projects into LeadFirst software so your entire organization can align their work to it.
- Collaboration exercises
- Dashboards
- Visible, one-page plan
Our Purpose Workshop brings a powerful strategy planning process to your top leaders.
- Strategic question exercises
- Gain agreement on Mission, Values, and Vision
- Build a Strategy Scorecard
- Great opportunity to develop junior leaders’ strategic thinking
Ongoing Coaching reinforcing DI: Strategic Vision
Our experienced coaches do more than get you off to a great start with the strategic planning process. They stick with you, consistently joining you onsite to encourage, support, and hold you accountable as you execute your plan.
- Workshop facilitation
- Software setup
- Project management
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Conquer Chaos in Your Business
- Order copies of Built to Beat Chaos for your team
- Lead your team through the Discussion Guide
- Set a vision for your business with the LeadFirst Purpose Workshop.
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