Focusing on your strategy to communicate, monitor and implement it better

'Strategy exists in peoples' heads. 
If your strategy is not there, they are executing someone else's strategy'
Phil Jones , Excitant Ltd

The benefits

Our clients say it is easier to communicate, monitor progress and make sure their strategy delivers the right results, when their performance management approach is linked to their strategy. Their confidence grows.

As an organisation, our clients say:

• People have objectives, measures and targets that they can relate to

• Communication improves: we understand the strategy better and can contribute to it more

• We have a more aligned and responsive organisation, with investment focused in the right areas

• Collaboration increases because people have a better view of the big picture

• Delivery and results improve.

As a management team, they say:

• Our meetings focus on the bigger issues, rather than getting bogged down in the operational detail

• We have better quality discussions, analysis and clearer consensus. We have a greater understanding of the uncertainties and risks

• We have a clearer sense of where we are going, how we will get there, and the progress we are making.

• We can refine and develop our strategy which gives us more confidence we will deliver the results.

The problems our clients often face

They don't get it

Sometimes we hear, "They don't get the strategy." So our approach involves getting the strategy out of the heads of the people that devised and planned it, into the heads of the people who will execute it.

If the strategy is in their heads, they will be acting upon it.  If it is not in their heads, then they are still executing a strategy - but it may not be your strategy!

Too many measures - of the wrong sort

Sometimes we hear "We are inundated with too many measures and not enough information. We don't have measures for the things that are strategic."

We don't have a culture of performance

We help you address the underlying elements of culture, behaviours and faulty performance management approaches that undermine a culture of performance.

Our performance management approach is too complicated

We make the strategy planning and performance management approaches process easier to operate, understand and manage so you have more confidence in the results.  A key piece is recognising that strategic performance management is a continuous process. So we unlock the barriers to such an approach, to make it simpler.

20 questions to improve how you communicate your strategy.

Communicating your strategy: How many do understand it?

or go to our Strategic Performance Management case studies.

We have clients using our approach 5 years after we worked with them. As our clients' quotes show, a well executed strategy project, introduced in a way that addresses both the culture and performance of the organisation, is most effective.