ACHIEVEBLUE Organizational Excellence™

ACHIEVEBLUE STRATEGIC VISIONING
Organizational vision is not just about where an organization sees itself in the future. An effective, actionable vision speaks to the core identity, values and value proposition of the organization today. For details on how to define a strategic vision that uniquely positions and drives marketing, sales and service for real results, click here.
 
ACHIEVEBLUE CULTURE AND LEADERSHIP IMPACT
Organizational culture is the foundation for sustained excellence and breakthrough performance. In a nutshell, culture is the most significant factor affecting an organization’s ability to attain both short–term targets and long–term vision. For details on how you can align your organizational culture to your strategic goals, click here.

ACHIEVEBLUE Strategic Visioning

ACHIEVEBLUE Strategic Visioning is delivered as a structured, facilitated immersion learning program that enables you to create compelling and actionable strategic organizational vision. This encompasses your core identity and values, the creation of a value proposition aligned to the unique needs of your marketplace and customers,identification of key resource focus areas,how and when you need to measure success, and how to communicate and support the vision with employees, suppliers, customers and shareholders.

Duration: 4.5 days

Outline
  • Fundamentals
    • Vision in Context: The Compete to Win™ Model
    • The value of Vision
  • The Ideal Tomorrow
    • Describing The Ideal Tomorrow
    • Key elements of The Ideal Tomorrow
  • Today's Reality
    • Defining the as-is state with clarity and precision
    • How to perform a gap analysis between Today's Reality and The Ideal Tomorrow
    • Applying the ACHIEVEBLUE Planner™ to build a Keep / Stop / Start transition plan
  • Tomorrow's Reality
    • Developing an Actionable Vision Statement
    • Defining the strategic elements needed for success
    • Identifying Vision Objectives
  • Testing the Vision
    • Gathering input to the Vision from stakeholders
    • Analysing and leveraging stakeholder input
    • Enhancing and finalizing the Vision
  • Implementing the Vision
    • Developing the Vision Communication Plan
    • Developing the Vision Action Plan
    • Developing the Vision Review Plan
Next Steps

ACHIEVEBLUE is Your Strategic Vision Development Partner. Call us at 416-236-3005.

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ACHIEVEBLUE Culture and Leadership Impact

Here’s the crux of it. A robust organizational culture provides the environment for strategic execution with focus, speed and agility. Culture sets the tone for the personal accountability, team effectiveness and stakeholder engagement necessary for high performance.

While there are many factors affecting performance, our experience shows that performance levels most often depend on whether the strategic plans are being used effectively within the various company units and the overall organization. The degree to which an organization is successful in implementing strategy is, more often than not, a reflection of its culture:
  • An organization’s culture is defined as “the attitudes and behaviours” that are expected in order to fit in and be successful.
  • If there is a gap between the organization’s value statements and its actual attitudes and behaviours, then we have what is called a “cultural disconnect.” This has a profound and proven negative impact on desired outcomes such as employee engagement, innovation, team effectiveness and achievement orientation. Measuring the gap, therefore, between its Ideal vision and its Current operating culture becomes an essential component of any organization's Balanced Scorecard.
  • An organization’s leadership is the primary driver of its culture; “Inspiring leaders create inspired cultures; inspired cultures create inspired results.” The impact of leaders and leadership teams on the day-to-day actions, attitudes and behaviours is reflected in the degree of organizational innovation, collaboration, achievement, employee engagement and retention.
  • ACHIEVEBLUE believes when attention is paid to the synergies amongst Leadership Impact, Constructive Culture and Employee Engagement, a roadmap to a high performing organization will be revealed so it can be achieved. As baseball great Yogi Berra once said, “If you don’t know where you are going, how will you know when you get there?”

Understanding Your Culture Profile

A Culture Profile describes the Current culture’s strengths and vulnerabilities. This quantitative information helps the executive team to articulate the Ideal cultural attributes critical for the execution of the strategic plan and identifies the leverage points for growth and change. Our research has shown that organizational culture is one of the lead indicators of long term effectiveness. We also know that leaders are the primary drivers of culture. ACHIEVEBLUE has focused our consulting efforts on providing organizations with culture and leadership scorecards that enable you to determine the degree of impact your culture and your leaders have on strategy execution innovation, employee engagement, and retention and collaboration.

Our Renewal Process and Methodology

ACHIEVEBLUE uses a performance-based business measurement and renewal process we call the  Renewal Process™. You won't just get the truth, you will also get a plan that leverages existing alignment with your ideal culture and that closes the gaps with your current culture. You will become the organization that you always had in mind. We will provide you with an AchievebluePrint™ that provides your organization and its leaders with a detailed, strategy-driven implementation plan based on fact, not assumption. 

There are five key relationships that must be aligned for maximum success: Customer, Organization, Leader, Self and Team. The first step to breakthrough performance is knowing how aligned they are right now. That's where we can help. ACHIEVEBLUE deploys a comprehensive set of validated and integrated instruments that create awareness and help you align the five key relationships. The instruments can be accessed separately or used together to provide a detailed organization-wide assessment. We also offer integrated services that assist individuals, teams and organizations close the gaps between current and ideal identified by the instruments.

To learn more about ACHIEVEBLUE Culture and Leadership Impact services and how we can help your organization achieve Breakthrough Performance, contact us at 416-236-3005 or download our brochure by clicking here.

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