Business Outcomes

Leaders and work teams:

• Understand and commit to strategic goals.

• Know exactly what they need to do each week to move the organisation closer to the goals.

• Continue to apply their best efforts to the activities that matter most and achieve the organisation’s strategic goals consistently.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate how the team’s work impacts the department and relevant social service stakeholders. 

• Construct a resource management work plan to align the department’s operations and support systems to organisational strategy.

• Develop team/department’s goals/strategies and evaluate risk impact, to execute a proven and disciplined strategy process. 

• Identify new behaviours and activities that would minimise risk impact on the success of team goals/strategies.

Learning Unit 1: Resource Management

• Introduction: 

 ­ - Leaders’ roles and impact on the organisation.

 ­ - Execution impacts Engagement.

• Align the 6 Rights: Alignment of core operational system.

 ­ - Understand how alignment helps strategy execution.

 ­ - Assess and align support systems:

. People

. Structure

. Rewards

. Resources

. Decisions

. Processes

Learning Unit 2: Strategy Implementation

• Principles of the 4 Disciplines of Execution® (focus, leverage, measurement, and accountability):

  ­ Discipline 1: Focus on the Wildly Important Goals

   • Determine the Wildly Important Goals (WIG)

   • Identify and plot potential WIGs

   • Narrow the WIG

   Discipline 2: Act on the Lead Measures 

   • Lead vs Lag Measures

   • Identify and evaluate internal and external risk factors 

   • Identify and narrow Lead Measures

   • Link risk factors to selected lead measures

   Discipline 3: Keep a Compelling Scoreboard 

   • Compelling Scoreboards that drive engagement and execution

   • Create a Scoreboard to track:

    o Lag and Lead Measures

    o Risk indicators

   Discipline 4: Create a Cadence of Accountability 

   • Weekly WIG Sessions to create accountability:

    o Review Scoreboard: Track progress of Lead Measures and review Risk Indicators.

    o Report progress of previous week’s Team Commitments.

    o Plan: Remove any obstacles and make new commitments that will move the lead measures

towards achieving the WIG.

   • Watch out! Common pitfalls

   • Keys to successful WIG sessions

Application: Resource Management and Strategy Implementation Plan

  o The 6 Rights Plan 

  o The 4 Disciplines of Execution® Process

Participants will also engage in 3 weekly reinforcement Group Coaching following the facilitated training to deepen learning, accelerate application, and create accountability.

Full video recording (including screenshots) of each online session will be taken for SSG’s audit purposes