Program Overview
While many leaders, managers, and analysts are comfortable creating a strategic plan for moving their organization forward, many organizations struggle to turn abstract goals and strategies into reality. This program teaches participants how to effectively implement an organization’s strategy by focusing on five strategy execution imperatives. As opposed to a typical strategic planning course that focuses on goal setting, this hands-on course lets delegates work with proven tools, techniques, and interventions needed to turn strategy into action. This course is designed for all organizations and all sectors, regardless of what strategic planning framework has been used to create your plan. The course starts with a short primer on strategic plans, so organizations that do not have a strategic plan can learn how to adopt best practices to develop one and implement it successfully.
Created by the Balanced Scorecard Institute and offered in association with the George Washington University Center of Excellence in Public Leadership, the Practical Strategy Execution Certification program provides participants with the tools they need to improve and execute existing strategic plans. The five authors of the course have over 100 years of combined training and consulting experience in strategy, strategic planning, performance measurement and management, and strategy execution in 50 countries.
Program Details
Sessions include lectures, individual and small group exercises, readings, group discussions, surveys, Q and A’s, visiting expert presentations, real-world examples of successful strategy implementations, and a delegate project tailored to their organization.
Session Lecture
An expert consultant will present content to the entire class. Much like BSI’s other educational webinars, this presentation will intersperse polling questions and other activities and will include a Q&A session at the end.
Session Small Group Exercise
Delegates will be split into small groups and will be tasked with completing a small group exercise via web conference. All exercises will be facilitated by an expert consultant. Participants are required to engage via web camera and microphone.
Reading, Quizzes and Exam
Sessions will be complemented with reading assignments, quizzes (not graded), discussion board dialog, and small-group instructor feedback. Upon completion of the course, participants may take and pass the online Strategy Execution Certification Exam to become certified.
Course Benefits
Participants will:
- Apply strategy execution tools and solutions for overcoming issues and challenges related to strategy execution in their organizations
- Understand how five imperatives that are critical to successful strategy execution can be incorporated into your strategy implementation efforts:
- Leadership and Governance
- Creating a Performance Culture
- Aligning and Operationalizing Strategy
- Project/Portfolio Management
- Performance Analysis, Reporting and Informing
- Learn how to test an existing strategic plan for implementation success, and incorporate agility and innovation to make strategy implementation easier and more successful
- Understand how important clear communications and change management are to achieving successful strategy execution and creating a more high-performance organization
- Create a customized My Strategy Execution Roadmap for your organization
Who Should Attend?
This course is recommended for managers, planners, analysts, and others who are charged with implementing plans and delivering results. The course is highly recommended for members of Executive and Senior Management teams, Program and Policy Analysts, Project Managers, and strategy professionals, and performance management teams. The course is also ideal for any business professional who wants to keep abreast of the latest thinking in strategic planning, alignment, strategic program and project management, performance measurement, and strategy execution. Organizations will benefit the most by sending teams to the course who are seeking the best practical ideas for successful strategy implementation in their organizations.
Business and support unit employees will benefit from seeing how strategy is aligned from enterprise level to their level and how plans are implemented to produce results. Enterprise-wide leaders and managers will benefit from learning how to successfully implement the strategy execution imperatives at all organization levels.
The Value of Online Training
Online BSI courses are minimally discounted compared to our live in-person courses. Just as many Universities have found, the cost related to offering a quality course online are just as high, if not higher, than offering a course in person. Direct interaction with experienced BSI consultants is integral to the quality of all our programs, live or online. BSI consultants facilitate all interactive exercises in addition to the lecture, so each participant will likely see 120-180 minutes of instructor time each week, in addition to discussion board and homework review. The value of the content is the same, only the delivery is designed to meet the needs of those that can’t (or don’t want) to travel or be away from their office for five days.
