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Strategy Execution Workshop

Create Your 90-Day Action Blueprint for Strategy Success

Even the best strategic plan is of little value if the organization is incapable of effectively
executing it. Yet strategy execution is all too rarely given the time and effort it requires to turn
strategic vision into sustained business success.

This course will provide you with key tools, techniques and best practices for effective strategy
execution. You will understand the relationship of strategy design, leadership, communication,
organizational structure, core capabilities and strategic renewal to strategy execution. The
workshop format will enable you to practice applying a systematic strategy execution process to
your business, and to develop an action blueprint based on your strategy.

Takeaways

Understand the dynamic interplay between strategy design and execution
Identify where changes may be needed in your organizations structure, processes,
reward philosophy or culture in order to implement your strategy successfully
Enrich your execution skills with the best practices of excellent companies
Make incisive strategy-based decisions, with due consideration of trade-off choices in
organization design
Leverage strategy implementation to make the strategy real and tangible
Design an organizational architecture that develops critical competences
Employ a strategy communication approach based on proven practices
Implement a strategy review framework that facilitates quick response to changing
situations
Implement a reward philosophy that motivates people to own the strategy and business
Embed an organizational culture that builds sustained competitive advantage
Manage ongoing implementation processes and communicate progress

Course Content

Using Best Strategy Execution Practices to Achieve Business Goals
developing your authentic leadership style: pinpointing areas for improvement
building a robust approach to strategy communication
leveraging innovation to overcome trade-offs in organizational design
increasing execution effectiveness by managing the relationship between employee
motivation, reward philosophy and culture
prioritizing your initiatives to achieve strategic goals



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Developing Your 90-Day Action Blueprint
determining key execution focus areas
identifying changes required in structure, processes, reward system and culture in order to
make the strategy happen
setting an agenda for change and forming a powerful change coalition
identifying, developing and aligning initiatives to key strategic goals
defining measurements and milestones for each initiative
reframing targets for each strategic goal

Managing the Strategy Execution J ourney
evaluating your action plan and changing your priorities if necessary
communicating progress on a timely basis
assessing areas of misalignment between structure, processes and culture, and
recalibrating initiatives to bridge the gap
conducting regular strategy reviews
reframing the strategy: connecting execution back to design

Special Features

This participant-centric workshop will help you develop a robust set of strategy execution
competences. You will practice applying the ideas and skills you are learning to your business,
and develop part of a 90-Day Action Blueprint for your own organization on each day of the
course. The learning will be enhanced by group discussions and activities that focus on real
issues and challenges in strategy execution.

Who Should Attend

Executives, senior managers and entrepreneurs who wish to develop practical skills in effective
strategy execution, in order to contribute to the growth and profitability of their businesses.

Course Leader

Dr. Rajinder Raina is a Professor of strategic management at the Gordon Institute of Business
Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has more than 20 years of management
experience in India, South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria and France. He has advised multinational
organizations such as The World Bank and IBM in strategic management and global expansion.
Currently, he advises clients on entry and expansion strategies in Africa and India.


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Certificates

This course qualifies as a designated course for an Executive Education Certificate. For more
information, view the Certificate Learning Planner on our website:
www.sauder.ubc.ca/ee/certify

To Register

Executive Education
www.sauder.ubc.ca/exec_ed
Tel. 604.822.8400 (toll-free 1.800.618.3932)