Creating Your Strategy

A step-by-step guided walk that starts with articulating the problem and ends with celebrating your strategy. You will take a guided walk where you and your team immerse in the Playing to Win framework, and as we walk you'll develop your winning strategy, and will learn how to help others in your organization use this framework for making their choices. Creating strategy is typically organized around three meetings: an introductory and deep dive meeting(s), a reverse engineering meeting, and a closing meeting. While this is the common way of structuring the work, smaller organizations may complete this work in two meetings over a week or two. Often larger organizations may use more meetings over an extended time. How often you meet will depend on your organization's size, complexity of the strategy choices you're facing, and the amount of time you have.

According to a study conducted by Gartner in 2019, 75% of the respondents rated strategy execution as their #1 challenge. This is why we will engage with you to design plans and tools to activate your winning strategy throughout your organization. You will be part of a team that designs the initiatives and tasks required to mobilize your winning strategy in your organization. Because let's be honest, strategy without execution is just another fancy name for a wish list!

Activating a strategy is made up of three pillars: 

1. Chartering and communication to encourage action and engagement 
2. Building new capabilities and management systems
3. Creating tracking processes and tools

An interactive training on Playing to Win methodology. During this two-day course you will learn a process that will help you create and act on your strategy. You'll follow a business -oriented, iterative and human-centered process, and will learn how to understand the world as it is and imagine how it could be in the future.