Management Briefing: The "Fourth Generation Balanced Scorecard overview"

Timing: from 2 hours to a full a day. Usually a half day to allow for audience participation and exploration.

A short, deep briefing on Modern Balanced Scorecard thinking, design and implementation.

This session is ideal for briefing a team. Whether you have an existing balanced scorecard or want to introduce one, the session will help you understand the underlying issues. It will help you think through how to update to your existing strategy implementation approach and your management of performance.

The Fourth Generation approach helps you become more agile and responsive as an organisation, putting human beings back into performance management.

Typically this is a half day session for a team or group of managers. It is an ideal starting place and overall briefing. Some clients have used this to spur to their teams into thinking more deeply about performance and changing the way they work.

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Capturing Strategy in Strategy Maps:
A Specialist course in Strategy Mapping for Strategic Balanced Scorecards

Timing: Two days. Ideal for a those designing Strategy Maps for Strategic Balanced Scoercards

Strategy maps make the difference between an operational balanced scorecard and one that supports the organisation's strategy. Strategy maps have to capture the organisation's strategy so it can be communicated and later managed. So how do you do this? This couse is based on the forthcoming book "Strategy mapping" by Phil Jones.

This course exposes the inner thinking and working of strategy maps and strategy mapping. It explains how strategy maps can capture the diversity of strategy in its various forms. We show how strategy maps capture different forms of value propositions that use, and then go beyond, the models used by Kaplan and Norton.

We explain how strategy gets captured as choice and focus in an organisation. We expose how competition and the external environment are handled. It explains how strategy works at various levels and how strategy maps handle this. It also explains how to use strategy maps in a strategic management process. The course is available for both Commercial organisations, and organisations in the Not For Profit, Public and Third Sectors.

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Build your Strategic Balanced Scorecard:
Modern Balanced Scorecard Training: Design, Implementation & Use

Timing: three days. Does not have to be consequtive. Ideal for a management team as a group

During the three days participants will develop drafts of their Tangible Future, Strategy Map and First Draft Balanced Scorecard. They will also develop a plan for its further development, impleentation and use. This is deep immersion into designing, implementing and using a Modern Balanced Scorecard.

This training course is really a three day interactive workshop where a team work together to both learn the principles AND develop their strategy map and balanced scorecard together. It is based upon our proven "Three workshop Rapid Balanced Scorecard" approach.

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The Modern Balanced Scorecard Approach (Five day Training):
Planning, Design, Implementation & Use

Timing: Five days. Intensive course for a management team as a group. This can be split into two parts if required. Also members of the Executive team can the most relevant sessions.

This is an extended version of the three day course, where more time is spent going deeper into the approaches to develop ownership and engagement.

This course is ideal for a team that wish to develop their balanced scorecard and present it to their management team. Over the five days participants will develop drafts of their Tangible Future, Strategy Map and First Draft Balanced Scorecard. They will also develop a plan for its further development, implentation and use. This is deep immersion into designing, implementing and using a Modern Balanced Scorecard.It is based upon our "Five day Rapid and Intensive Balanced Scorecard" approach.

Talks, Conferences, Videos and Seminars: Keynotes and Specialist topics

Insightful, provocative, and clear: talks you can learn from. Our Managing Director, Phil Jones, talks at seminars, conferences and to in-house teams. His clients say:

• Thank you very much for your excellent speech... it is always a pleasure to listen to interesting and well-planned speeches. You are the highest scoring speaker we have had. Monica Lijeroth, Chair, ACCA
• You held the audience's attention and gave them just what they wanted. That was excellent, thanks. Todd S Johnson, Bettermanagement.com

Recent topics include: The Culture of Performance; Strategic management vs Operational management: telling the difference; Using judgement and Evidence in modern balanced scorecards. Listen to audio seminars. See videos of some of Phil's talks

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