Cohesive Strategy Planning
Navigating Crisis and Change to Win
Picture your business or organization as a boat navigating the rivers of crisis and change. While the water’s current may be unrelenting and at times even treacherous, you are not simply at the mercy of a rushing tide. A boat’s movement, speed, and success can also be determined by the crew on board. When everyone from the C-Suite to front-line contributors are aligned and rowing in the same direction, it can power your organization forward against even the heaviest of storms.
In our 50+ years of combined hands-on professional experience, we know navigating crisis and change for life demands a kind of cohesive strategy planning that keeps in everyone on the same page whether they’re up on the bridge, in the situation room or down in the engine room.
Research consistently cites the disconnect between executive strategy and end user execution as a major barrier to successful crisis responses and change initiatives. While organizations will often have strong priorities and imperatives during crisis and change, many struggle to plan and to translate them into coordinated action and outcomes.
Firms like McKinsey, IBM and the Project Management Institute (PMI), etc. suggest common causes of failure include unclear ownership, competing priorities, inadequate resources, weak communication, and insufficient support for frontline adoption, which can all derive from a lack of cohesive strategy planning. Business data highlights how organizations lose significant value at the point of execution due to a failed leadership alignment, governance, capabilities, and adoption mechanisms; emphasizing how success requires engagement and the ability to embed new ways of working versus leaning on technology and vision alone.
The good news? You have the power to align your organizational boat.
We partner with leaders, teams, and organizations to deliver adaptive and situationally relevant solutions to improve the cohesion of your strategic planning.