Navigating to an agreed vision through the heavy weather of an organization's work in its global and local realities is clearly no small challenge for anyone, but senior management bears this direct responsibility to their board.
Transforming a vision into tangible results day-to-day calls for developing clear purpose, trust and practical approaches that encourage ownership, collaboration, initiative and coordination in ideas and action across an organization or community.
Creating and evolving strategy on the go, assessing issues, options and progress, changing gears to seize opportunities, as well as building and reporting value added, are only a few of the tasks that come with this territory. Strategic management facilitation tailored to fit a client's needs is a high-leverage approach to organizational and community development and performance.
The Practice collaborates on needs assessment, design, facilitation and advisory roles for: a) CEO's, senior management teams and b) managing partners and partners. This includes values; vision; strategy; board, internal and external working relationships; implementation; balanced benchmarks; monitoring; transition and work on specific issues.
(See Strategic Governance.)
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