Tool or no tool. It takes clarity and committment to succeed.
First Things is a highly effective strategic alignment session that refocuses your senior leadership team around what matters most to your organization.
Background
Successful implementation of your strategic goals begins with unimpeachable clarity and alignment within your senior leadership team (SLT). A shared understanding of priorities - both short and long-term goals - enables agility and adaptability of your business through unpredictable market conditions. Our program is designed to align and inspire the leaders that set the tone for your organization. Identify where there's chaos and then command it with clarity, coordination and connection.
What to expect
A 3-phased, self-paced program, guided by the Alignd team to help you drive clarity and alignment within the senior leadership team. Average elapsed time frame is between 2 to 4 weeks.
Phase One
Clarify
Create shared clarity around vision and strategic priorities within your Senior Leadership Team, understand where we really are and where the gaps between strategy and implementation have emerged.
Kick-off session with CEO (60 mins)
Sensing surveys
- One 10 question survey for SLT to assess shared understanding of strategic priorities.
- One 10 question survey for sample-size selection of team members across the organization to assess clarity at various levels.
Moderated session with SLT (90 mins)
- Surface and discuss results of both surveys and implications.
- Establish rock solid alignment to cascade clarity throughout organization.
Phase Two
Coordinate
Walking the walk - leadership team is leading by example to embed strategy into the day-to-day. Accountability and facilitation of habit-forming “strategic intention setting” daily/weekly. The intention is to sustain clarity after the “Town Hall” meeting, so that "when the chairs get stacked", people are focusing their actions to strategy.
Access to strategy platform with dedicated accountability performance coaching during program.
Culture of Learning - 1:1 and group sessions with Alignd's Organizational Psychologist on how to ensue engagement and drive performance.
Data & Reporting through the strategy platform that reveal key insights on leading indicators of success, predictors of future success and measures of organizational alignment.
Phase Three
Connect
Facilitate a searchable database of skills, past work experiences, proficiencies and interests to immediately fill organizational needs from within your team.
Import resumes of your team members through our system to unlock the latent proficiencies that exist within your organization.
Create “usable” profiles of team members that drives deeper connection and more robust collaboration.
Full refund upon request if you are not pleased with results.
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