Principles of

Strategic Organization

Tuesday, April 21 – Friday, April 24, 2009

Sudbury, Ontario, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

"Aligning the Entire Leadership System to Fully Leverage Potential and Deliver on Strategy"

 

Principles of

Strategic Organization

Syllabus

• L.E.A.D. with Leverage

Provides an overview of a total managerial leadership system that allows managers to leverage their company’s potential by engaging commitment, aligning judgment, and developing capabilities

• Engaging Commitment with the Psychological Contract

Examines the implicit expectations all people bring to their organizations and examines a manager’s role in effectively addressing, understanding, and renegotiating these expectations

• Understanding Accountability

Demonstrates that accountabilities are valid only when they have clear definition, requisite authority, and appropriate resources; shows that only an employee’s immediate manager can be accountable for that employee’s outputs and effectiveness

• Building a Culture of Accountability

Examines an innovative and dynamic approach to accountability, requiring all employees to continually think “outside the box,” but to act “inside the box” with discipline and focus

• Organizing for Complexity

Provides an overview of a naturally occurring structure for all managerial systems that allows for the optimal positioning of roles and that ensures value-adding managerial levels

• Understanding Capability and Potential

Presents a groundbreaking methodology that allows managers to accurately assess both the potential and effectiveness of every employee

• Aligning Judgment and Managerial Leadership Practices

Builds skills in critical leadership-communication practices—especially context setting—that align employee judgments, decisions, and actions

• Organizing for Business

Identifies the business functions necessary to understand the marketplace and then to develop, provide, market, and sell goods and services that will simultaneously serve customers and meet business objectives

• Organizing for Process

Explores a model for how a company should organize functions and processes at every level, contrasts this model with actual companies, and discusses differences and leadership implications

• Leading Laterally: Defining Accountabilities for Teams and Cross-Functional Processes

Explores a straightforward approach to accountable, capable, and efficient teams, cross-functional processes, and cross-functional working relationships

• Developing Capability with Talent-Pool Development and Sonario®

Presents a systematic, software-supported method for effectiveness appraisal, coaching, mentoring, HR modeling, and succession planning; provides a methodology for ensuring that the best individual is selected for each role and that talent is optimally distributed throughout an organization

• Designing and Implementing Your Strategic Organization

Presents a practical approach to engineer Strategic Organization principles into every aspect of a company, explores the barriers that participants frequently encounter in their own companies, and provides strategies for dealing with these obstacles

• Reforming Your Leadership Culture

Provides a step-by-step approach to designing, communicating, and engaging an entire organization around significant changes in structure, process, and culture; explains the theory and practice of building an accountable, adaptive organizational culture

 

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