Succeed with your strategy

Strategy Execution Model Role of leadership Strategy Stress Test Leaders Impact Framework What you can expect Case Studies Experience

The best thought-out strategy will fail without leaders with the capabilities to ensure your strategy is successful.

Jim Collins said: “Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment’’. Strategy execution is the responsibility that makes or breaks leaders.

‘Built to Last’ – Collins and Porras, Harper Collins, 1994

Your organisation needs to have the capabilities that will deliver your strategy and your leaders need the capabilities to lead others in the successful execution of your strategy.

Great execution is very difficult and requires several gears moving together

The role of leadership is to provide the vision & direction to align the organisation

Strategy Stress Test (SST©):
evaluating whether your strategy is robust enough to succeed

Most companies do have a strategy. Sometimes it’s formal and well documented. Sometimes it’s informal, but well understood. So why do a lot of strategies fail in execution? Our experience shows that companies often take their strategies for granted, and don’t always ask tough questions before taking the plunge. These questions become particularly important at times when there is a major change of direction in your strategy.

The SST© – does not claim to design your strategy for you: instead it provides you either with the reassurance that you are poised for success, or pinpoints the areas of weakness in your strategy so that you can deal with them before embarking on execution.

Leaders Impact Framework (LIF©):
evaluating your leaders’ capabilities for success with your strategy

For your company strategy to succeed, the leadership team must have the capabilities required for your strategy to be successful. As the competitive environment shifts and changes over time, the capabilities required for success will also change.

The LIF© – will help you consider the capabilities you need as a leader of your organisation today and in the future, and how to develop them for full impact as a leader.

What you can expect

The key questions for your business	Our methods	Outcomes you can expect when working with the Leadership Gallery
Is our strategy robust enough?	Use of our diagnostic tools including SST©/ SST for Brexit©, LIF© and BEF©: Executive leadership 360’s and leadership interviews Strategy workshops	Based on a detailed review of your strategy, highlighted areas of focus to ensure your strategy is robust, resilient and rooted.
Do we have the capabilities to succeed?	Data driven testing Capability analysis Strategy driven leadership development Organisation design review	A plan outlining the steps recommended to secure the capabilities required for successful strategy execution.
How do we secure and sustain the capabilities we need?	Strategy workshops Collaborative and strategic learning programmes Leadership coaching / 1:1 support Executive & leadership team support	The capabilities you need will have been developed, tested and embedded within your organisation.

The key questions for your business

Our methods

Outcomes you can expect when working with the Leadership Gallery

Is our strategy robust enough?

Use of our diagnostic tools including SST©/ SST for Brexit©, LIF© and BEF©:

Executive leadership 360’s and leadership interviews
Strategy workshops

Based on a detailed review of your strategy, highlighted areas of focus to ensure your strategy is robust, resilient and rooted.

Do we have the capabilities to succeed?

Data driven testing
Capability analysis
Strategy driven leadership development
Organisation design review

A plan outlining the steps recommended to secure the capabilities required for successful strategy execution.

How do we secure and sustain the capabilities we need?

Strategy workshops
Collaborative and strategic learning programmes
Leadership coaching / 1:1 support
Executive & leadership team support

The capabilities you need will have been developed, tested and embedded within your organisation.

Case Studies

Organisation type	Who we are working with / have worked with	The project
Large Public Sector Body	The Board and the Executive Committee	This organisation is currently undergoing significant change despite its recent establishment, with a longer term programme required to fully integrate the organisations which have come together to form the new entity. Our role: To work with the Board to develop a Board effectiveness framework To build and deliver an Executive development programme to support them as a newly formed Team
Global Fluid systems engineering business	The Executive Leadership Team	A non-UK based business that has created a new ‘Ventures’ entity through the integration of 6 of its market leading brands. Our role: To work with the ELT to test the robustness of their new strategy, to identify gaps and help them make plans for effective implementation of their strategy To establish how they need to work as a cohesive team to agree a shared ambition and ELT ‘Charter’
FTSE 100 Engineering Company	Senior Leaders	An organisation going through huge transformation as a consequence of technology changes, sector opportunities. The purpose was for leadership to adapt its approach from being functional experts to global ‘systems leaders’. Our role: To design, develop and deliver the strategic leadership programme for the Group’s ‘Top 300’ senior executives To help the organisation deliver a significant shift in leadership and business impact (evidence based). Programme extended to ten waves; currently in redesign for re-launch 2017

Organisation type

Who we are working with / have worked with

The project

Large Public Sector Body

The Board and the Executive Committee

This organisation is currently undergoing significant change despite its recent establishment, with a longer term programme required to fully integrate the organisations which have come together to form the new entity. Our role:

To work with the Board to develop a Board effectiveness framework
To build and deliver an Executive development programme to support them as a newly formed Team

Global Fluid systems engineering business

The Executive Leadership Team

A non-UK based business that has created a new ‘Ventures’ entity through the integration of 6 of its market leading brands. Our role:

To work with the ELT to test the robustness of their new strategy, to identify gaps and help them make plans for effective implementation of their strategy
To establish how they need to work as a cohesive team to agree a shared ambition and ELT ‘Charter’

FTSE 100 Engineering Company

Senior Leaders

An organisation going through huge transformation as a consequence of technology changes, sector opportunities. The purpose was for leadership to adapt its approach from being functional experts to global ‘systems leaders’. Our role:

To design, develop and deliver the strategic leadership programme for the Group’s ‘Top 300’ senior executives
To help the organisation deliver a significant shift in leadership and business impact (evidence based). Programme extended to ten waves; currently in redesign for re-launch 2017