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New Leadership Practices to Implement Strategy
This digital program will equip senior leaders with new practices related to strategy, decision-making, prioritization and meetings which will help to unlock the potential for faster, more resilient and strategically aligned outcomes in their teams.
Digital only
Closed Group
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Top Executives (max. 24 participants)
This digital series is part of the Top Executives Specials', which are board-sponsored and by invitation only. Eligible persons will be automatically invited to participate on a regular basis.
October-December 2023
9 digital live sessions
2 hours per session
2 hours per session
What you will learn
- Why new ways of working are critical for organizations to achieve their desired business outcomes
- Where, specifically, your current ways of working and leading are holding you and your team back
- Key shifts and a landscape of new practices for strategy, prioritization, decision making, and meetings
- A new way to work and lead which allows teams to thrive in complexity and achieve business outcomes in an efficient way
- Your role as the leader in the context of building a more adaptable, resilient organization and facilitating practical change
Your Benefits
- Increased understanding of system-level factors that contribute to your team’s challenges and strengths related to strategy, prioritization, decision making and meetings
- Increased self awareness related to your leadership patterns, where they serve you, and where they hold you and your team back
- Introduction to a set of scalable, repeatable practices that can unlock more meaningful strategy conversations, faster group decision making, more disciplined prioritization, and better, outcome-focused meetings
- Hands on experience with each of those practices to immediately apply them in your own team and context
Who will benefit
Top Executives who
- Are ready to personally and practically change the way they work. This will not be a theoretical exercise. We will ask participants to do things differently
- Are in the process of strategically (re-) designing their organization towards adaptability, higher speed, resilience, and a new level of customer-focus
- Are ready to experiment with new practices for strategy, prioritization, decision making, and meeting.
Session Overview
Session 1: Introduction to New Ways of Working
- Why flexible, human-centered processes are critical for executing strategy
- The relationship between how we lead, the systems around us, and team outcomes
- What we’ll cover in following weeks
Session 2: Exploring “Strategy”
- Key shifts (e.g. strategy is iterative, not annual)
- A landscape of strategy-related practices that support these shifts
- The behavior, process, and leadership changes required to get the benefit of these practices
Session 3: Practicing a New Approach: 90-day outcomes
- Get into the tactics of defining goals in a way that creates clarity and flexibility
- Apply this practice to your work and draft real strategy content
- Explore what shifts are required to get the most out of this practice and how to use it with your team
Session 4: Practicing a New Approach: Even Over Statements
- Get into the tactics of defining goals in a way that creates clarity and flexibility
- Apply this practice to your work and draft real strategy content
- Explore what shifts are required to get the most out of this practice and how to use it with your team
Session 5: Exploring “Decision Making & Authority”
- Key shifts (e.g. clearer process and guardrails leads to more flexibility and collaboration, not less)
- A landscape of related practices
- The process, and leadership changes required to get the benefit of these practices
Session 6: Practicing a New Approach: Group Decisions
- Introduce a 6-step process for faster, more collaborative group decisions
- Apply this practice to your work in real decisions
- Explore what shifts are required to get the most out of this practice and how to use it with your team
Session 7: Exploring “Meetings”
- Key shifts (e.g. meetings are the key to new routines & execution, not an afterthought)
- A landscape of meeting types & meeting practices that support adaptability and speed
- The behavior, process, and leadership changes required to get the benefit of these practices
Session 8: Practicing a New Approach: Action Meeting
- Learn a meeting type that enables more effective coordination and steering
- Apply this practice to your own context & get experience facilitating it
- Explore shifts needed to get the most out of this practice and use it with your team
Session 9: Tying it all together
- A retrospective on the last 9 weeks
- Outstanding questions about application
- Reflection on personal learning, insights, and questions
- Peer-to-peer discussion
