The Accelerator supports senior teams with online learning and facilitation tailored to the unique requirement of each type of issue surfaced by the priority grid.
For example, if issues are raised about the fundamental strategic direction of the organization, training and facilitation might center of the following topics.
Alignment around the question: What is strategy?
Create competitive advantage through differentiation
Design interconnections throughout the system
Use metric wisely
If the most important issues refer to the decision-making process, the following topics are relevant.
Make better choices
Ask smart questions
Use directed advocacy
Test strategic assumptions
Be willing to engage in healthy conflict
If the most important issues centered on organization engagement and alignment, creating a common understanding around the following would be important.
Skillfully engage the organization
Know how interpersonal dynamics determine decision effectiveness
Create alignment around current reality
Be an effective change agent
If there are issues about the overall strategic planning process, the following would be relevant.
Determine the role of headquarters in strategic planning
Harness the power of purpose
Coordinate implementation across teams
Implement an ongoing issue-based process
In all, there are 23 modules (or sessions) derived from Tom’s decades of consulting experience and augmented by a condensation of the top material published in Harvard Business Review, the McKinsey Quarterly and MIT/Sloan Management Review over the last 20 years.
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