Cracking Great Leaders Program
  • Home
    • About Human Energy
    • Attention all consultants
  • The Book
    • The Book
    • Reviews of the Book
    • Contents of the Book
    • Get the 1st & 8th chapters for free
    • Where to Buy the Book
  • The Programs
    • IP for sale
    • Who the Programs are for >
      • New consultants
      • CEOs wanting to change culture
      • HR & OD Specialists
      • Double check your suitability
    • The benefits
    • 23 Modules (workshops) >
      • Summary 23 Modules
      • 23 Modules >
        • How to Liberate Human Energy at Work
        • The Power of the Subconscious Mind
        • Understanding Ourselves and Others Thinking Preferences (HBDI) >
          • Could You Be Missing Out On Three-quarters of Your Business Opportunities?
        • Making the Most of Your Genius Factor
        • Building Your Personal Brand
        • Cooperation, Collaboration and Connectedness
        • Colour Your Customers and Staff
        • The Power of Questions
        • Managing Your Manager
        • Confidence, Influence & Personal Power
        • Trust & How to be a trusted advisor
        • My Personal Power Program
        • Strategic Thinking
        • Strategic Execution
        • Organisational Architecture
        • Systems Thinking in Business
        • Increasing Innovation and Ideas
        • Customer Service Tools
        • Improving processes & Eliminating unnecessary work
        • Networks
        • Review & Dragon's Den
      • Pamphlet for 23 Modules
      • To buy the Modules
    • The 8 Programs >
      • Strategy Program >
        • Who it is for
        • To buy the Program
      • Cracking Great Leaders Program >
        • A typical program
        • Who it is for
        • Case study: The Correspondence School
        • Program Pamphlet
        • To buy the Program
      • Customer Intimate Program >
        • Who it is for
        • Program Pamphlet
        • Case Study - interview with Canary Industries
        • To buy the Program
      • Thought Leader Program >
        • Who it is for
        • Program Pamphlet
        • Case Study HTS-110
        • To buy the Program
  • Free Stuff
    • Introduction >
      • Why we give it free
      • The Business World Is Changing >
        • Doing Business in a Changing World
    • Free consulting advice >
      • Getting started >
        • Are You in a Corporate Cage?
        • Your Personal Power Program
        • Taking the plunge to go consulting
        • It took me 25 years but it doesn't have to!
        • Save Yourself the Cringe-factor
        • How Consultants can remain positive
        • Answer Your Calling >
          • Do you want to make money or be happy?
          • The difference between a ‘job’ and a ‘calling’:
      • Finding customers >
        • How to be top of mind!
        • 7 ways to identify your best customers
        • How to get an appointment next time you want to catch up with your client
        • Stand in your customers' shoes
        • Why Consultants Can’t “Sell” and Clients Won’t “Buy”
        • Stop Closing
        • How to develop strong relationships
        • How to get more sales more quickly!
        • Going consulting? It’s all about relationships.
        • Should consultant treat clients the same or differently? >
          • The secret great consultants know
        • What are you selling?
      • Building trust >
        • The worst advice I got
        • Why Trust Matters
        • Why Trust is important
        • Why You Must Build Trust
      • Free diagnostics process >
        • Why diagnostics is important
        • Become the expert they ask for, listen to and pay higher fees to
      • Developing Products/IP >
        • Cracking Great Leaders Program
      • Measuring a project >
        • Assessing a project
      • Success is Beyond the Conscious Mind >
        • Body Language
        • Talking without words
    • Free workshop advice >
      • 10 secrets to running successful workshops
      • Setting up folders for workshops
      • A great icebreaker
      • Rules of the workshop
      • Setting expectations for the Program
      • Ancient wisdom on facilitation
    • Free leadership advice >
      • Is Your Biggest Asset Under-utilised? >
        • Your belief in scarcity could sabotage your success
        • How to empower your frontline to be as committed as you are
      • Develop your leadership skills >
        • How to be a more powerful manager
        • Leadership boils down to 3 things. Forget all the rest of the guff!New Page
        • To Be Successful You Need To Know Your Core Of Greatness. Do you?
        • What is your Genius Factor?
        • Operate beyond the conscious mind
        • Work with Human Nature, Not Against it
      • The Business of Love >
        • ​Unbounded Human Energy
        • Manage Body, Head, Heart & Soul
        • Manage energy fields
        • Focus on the Whole Person
        • Are Leaders Mentors or Tormentors?
        • Rescuing hug
      • Do your people pull together?
      • ​Leadership Development is on the Wrong Track
      • A Glass Ball or a Mirror? >
        • The Power of Vulnerability
    • Free Strategy Advice >
      • How To Complete Your Strategy in Two Days Rather than Two Months
      • Why 76% of Strategies fail. How to do it successfully
      • Is your strategy being hijacked by numbers?
      • How to implement strategy and get it right in a fraction of the time
    • Free Organisational Development Advice >
      • Old Ways of Managing Don’t Work for Online Workers
      • Todays management challenge is to evolve the management model
      • A 30,000 year view of where business is going.
      • Will business be the Breaker of the world or the Maker of the world?
      • Creating Unbounded Human Energy
      • Emergence changes the way we think about scale
      • Sweet-spot - organisation without top-down control
      • Culture for new age
    • Free HR Advice >
      • 3 simple steps for H.R. success at Top Table
      • Getting Top Management Attention
      • 2 Secrets To Make Leadership Development More Successful
    • Free videos
    • Free blog
  • Bruce Holland
    • Bruce Holland
    • Bruce's confession
    • Bruce's LinkedIn page
  • Contact

How To Complete Your Strategy in Two Days Rather than Two Months

Issues
  1. Do you spend far too long doing your Strategy? You should be able to involve all the key players in two days not two months like some do.
  2. Do your people work really hard on stuff that doesn’t matter much? With Strategy everyone agrees what’s important and puts their horsepower behind it.
  3. Do your people work hard on to maximize their own part of the organization but end up pulling against each other to the detriment of the whole organization? With Strategy, everyone sees how they fit into the whole and work to achieve it.
  4. Do your people misunderstand what makes the organization special and unique? If they do there’s no way customers can understand it. With Strategy, everyone agrees what makes the organization special so customers can’t help but understand also. 
  5. Do your people not understand how their market and environment is changing? Since the past is a poor predictor of the future what used to work may not in the future. With Strategy, people understand how their market is changing and reallocate resources and effort to these opportunities.

Solution
These are all symptoms of a lack of strategy or understanding of the strategy. Our Strategy Process has two parts: 1. The Selection Process and 2. The Implementation Process.

1. The Selection Process
The Selection Process is about choosing which direction to take. There are often many options to choose from and selecting and agreeing which is best is vital to success.

​The Strategy Selection process has been developed over many years and streamlined so that a group of people can achieve what would normally take the two weeks in two days.
Picture
Day 1: In the first day they analyse the external environment, develop their Vision, agree their Value Proposition, examine their main Profit Zones and end up agreeing on the 3 or 4 strategies to take them to their vision of the future.
Day 2: In the second day they further develop their Value Proposition by aligning the Culture, Brand, Service delivery options and Leadership style to the Value Proposition. They further develop their strategies by understanding them to a ‘bone-deep’ level (what, when, how, who etc); they then agree how to measure, monitor and report on the strategies. Finally, they agree on the options to implement the strategies, understanding the importance of getting this right because this is where most strategy processes fail.
Each strategy process is different and needs to be designed to achieve the requirements of the client and the amount of time available for the process; however, there are a series of steps that most follow including analyzing market conditions, analyzing the environment, creating a Vision, agreeing on the appropriate Value Proposition, aligning the organization to the Value Proposition, agreeing on the strategies and implementing the strategies. These steps are shown in the table below and most are described within this paper, except for implementation that is the subject of another paper.

2. The Implementation Process

The Issue
Do you find it difficult to get people throughout the organisation understood and implemented?
Research shows that 76% of strategies fail and it’s at the implementation stage. 
In many ways selecting the Strategies is the easy part; it’s the implementation that is hard. This video will show you how to succeed:
Bruce Holland is our expert in this Strategy Process and has worked with many large private and public sector organizations to achieve the benefits listed above.
Client Comments

​