Making it Happen: How to Turn Strategy into Reality with Suzy Welch

41mGeneral2024-07-19

Authors

Suzy Welch

Course details

Your strategy may be smart, competitive, and ready to go, but how do you successfully put it into action? In this course, join New York University professor, best-selling author, and CEO advisor Suzy Welch as she introduces two dynamic tools and shows you how to tighten the link between strategy and execution.

How exactly? One tool shows you how to fend off “strategic drift” with 10-10-10, Professor Welch’s renowned decision-making system. The other, the culture creation construct, aligns behaviors with a transformative exercise for managers and teams alike. Together, these tools have the power to accelerate strategy implementation, with critical learning along the way.

Skills covered

Thought LeaderDecision-MakingBusiness StrategyProfessional DevelopmentBusiness Analysis and StrategyLeadership and Management

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Making it happen - Turning strategy into reality

1. Well, It Sounded Good in the Meeting

02 - Bridging strategy design and implementation
03 - Executing strategy - Deciding how and when
04 - Strategy design - Who owns operationalizing
05 - Avoiding decision drift - Keep strategy on course
06 - Strategy-culture alignment - Operationalize success

2. Tool #1 - The Cure for Decision Drift with 10-10-10

07 - The truth about decision making
08 - The 10-10-10 approach
09 - 10-10-10 in action
10 - A word of warning and encouragement

3. Tool #2 - The Culture Creation Construct

11 - Culture and strategy - Align behaviors for success
12 - Enter the Culture Creation Construct (CCC)
13 - The CCC in action
14 - Culture eats strategy for breakfast

Conclusion

15 - Make your own action plan