Group Process to Set Strategy

Group Process to Set Strategy

For any strategic initiative to succeed, the management team must be aligned as they move ahead. We recognize five factors as critical to accomplishing this:

Common objective
Fact-grounded answers
Human element
Team process
Path forward

We insure these elements are in place in every engagement.

Common Objective: We identify the overriding challenge that the group has chosen to address. Although there are always individual agendas and requirements to be met, there must be a single agreed goal defining success for the endeavor.

Fact-Grounded Answers: Despite comfort with anecdotal information and private instincts, business knowledge is built on objective factual observations. We overcome different views of the same situation by developing a deep, fact-grounded base of shared information.

Human Element: We recognize the subjective and personal aspects inherent to any consideration of strategy. This is explicitly incorporated by: carefully soliciting one-on-one input from all parties, including subjective criteria as inputs to the decision-making process, and differentiating between discrepancies of fact vs. opinions.

Team Process: Ours is a tailored and facilitated effort to build teamwork. This requires:

Raising awareness of individual differences
Establishing ground-rules for teamwork
Enhancing communication skills

Path Forward: Effective action requires an explicit and agreed recipe for how future success will be achieved. It defines roles, actions, and responsibilities, leaving no room for confusion.

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