Creating the Critical Linkage Between Strategy And Execution

What is the premise of Bodhih’s workshop on Strategic planning and execution?

Strategic Leadership provides the vision and direction for the growth and success of an organization. To successfully deal with change, all executives need the skills and tools for both strategy formulation and implementation. Managing change and ambiguity requires strategic leaders who not only provide a sense of direction, but who can also build ownership and alignment within their workgroups to implement change.

Bodhih’s Strategic Leadership and Execution skills workshops will help in Setting Goals, knowing the market forces and competition environment and building self-awareness in targeting capabilities needed to excel. The participants for strategy and execution skills workshop are tuned to the forces of loyalty (powerful and effective leaders demonstrate their loyalty to their vision by their words and actions) and judicious use of power (by navigating through the power games skilfully and developing consent for their ideas rather than forcing their ideas on others)

What does Bodhih’s Strategic Leadership and Execution Skills training cover?

At its core, Strategic Leadership and Execution Skills workshop explores the rhythms of planning – organizing – executing tasks within the ambit of a strategic vision and an operational mission.

From best practices used by Strategy leaders to strategic leadership skills, role of strategic leadership, leadership execution, leadership execution and team work, the workshop module also includes section on importance of strategy execution.

Kicking off with class exercises and presentations, Bodhih’s Strategic Leadership and Execution Skills program.

Instructs participants on the nuances of starting points of handling multiple tasks is to plan tasks. The learners in a real time activity list tasks, estimate completion times, and create a plan. The essential takeaway is to organize tasks in a certain priority basis their sequence, the impact on efficiency and also taking into account all interdependencies. Class students are given a fun activity to complete to appreciate the nuances involved in prioritising tasks. Various prioritization methods – eat the frog, the to do list, the 80/20 rule, allow time for interruptions, workload structuring, and multi-tasking limits – are shared with the group for future uses.

Next, learners through insightful analysis and case studies, discover the importance of executing tasks. Through facilitator led discussions, participants work through the concepts of reality checks, exchange of experiences, verification and feedback to understand that a plan in only as good as its execution. Ensuring great execution is as important as making a water tight plan. Flawless execution requires a good grasp of potential roadblocks, and setting up reality checks at different project points.

Bodhih’s strategy execution workshop, the module of importance is the one dedicated to the “understanding of strategy”. Through exercises and facilitator led discussions, the participants grasp the importance of “why” through probing and questioning, and seeing the larger picture. Learners work through caselet, that assists them to see the bigger picture behind workplace strategy, by asking questions about the need and relevance, of the strategy rather than following simple directions.

Bodhih’s facilitators are seasoned professionals who create linkages between skills picked up in the workshops and then to apply them in participant’s current roles. This is done through specific illustrations and analogies and is true for the next session at the Strategic Leadership and Execution Skills training – Strategic planning exercise

In the Strategic Leadership and Execution skills course, this session uses class exercises, games, role play and facilitator led presentations to lay out the importance of bringing all the listing – organizing – prioritizing – executing into ONE strategic execution exercises. Participants are given goals, scenarios, market conditions, competition information, durations, boundaries, and other constraints to use in a time-bound exercise and arrive at a strategic plan that serves the company’s overall vision

At Bodhih, Strategic Leadership and Execution Skills program is a popular session that is part of a larger Leadership skills training suite.

The session draws richly from latest research and case studies on Strategic Leadership and Execution best practices across global industry players.

How would you gain from Leadership Strategy and Strategy execution workshop at Bodhih?

Bodhih customizes its Strategic Leadership and Strategy Execution Skills training along the ADDIE model. Workshop experiences are analysed, designed, developed and delivered that are solution focused and include a range of blended training pedagogy such as role plays, group exercises, self-assessment tools, management games, individual activities, videos, case studies, facilitation, discussions and more.

In addition to the ADDIE model, the Strategic Leadership and Execution Skills workshop takes advantage of the experiential adult-learning process of concrete experience – reflective observation – abstract conceptualization – active experimentation.

The edge in Bodhih’s Strategy execution model workshop comes from researched industry learnings, current best practices and academic insights. The workshop takeaways ensure that learnings are grasped and applied at all levels within a company and its individuals. The long term benefits are to institutionalise Strategic Leadership and Execution skills by embedding basics governing planning, organizing, prioritizing in daily, weekly and quarterly activities.

What is Bodhih’s promise on Strategic Leadership and Strategy execution skills training?

Managers across industries and functions and executive level participants who have attended Bodhih’s sessions on Strategic Leadership and execution skills talk of the changed individual and team behaviours, namely, how employees demonstrate a big picture thinking behaviour that is deep and encompassing of departments and agendas further than their own.

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