20 essential leadership skills for strategy execution – In this article, we have focused on functional skills essential for strategy execution. The behavioural and technical skills required, we believe have direct correlation to the functional skills required to complete the job on hand.
This article covers the 20 skills that are essential for leaders to be better strategy executors.
Contextual capability building – The process of contextual capability involves functional analysis of operational requirements. Capabilities are identified based on the tasks required to be performed to achieve a goal or a strategy. Once the required capability inventory is defined, the most cost effective and efficient option to assess and build capability can be attempted.
Creating role clarity & accountability – “Accountability” is known to most people. One should also know that there is more to it than just writing job descriptions and if incomplete can reduce the chances of implementing your organisation goals by 75%. Accountability should be used as a tool to inspire people to unlock their potential.
Unlearning your way to optimally execute –
To do things you have never done before we need to navigate through what we have done before. We have over the years, accumulated many methods and processes that have worked for us. We tend to apply this while executing, in almost every goal that we pursue.
A significant Challenge – Revenue generation role for service engineers in the OEM manufacturing business. Here is a few thoughts on likely ways to encourage a revenue generation mindset in service engineers:
Downloadable template: Strategy execution practices – Clear strategic intent inspires your organisation • Strategic intent gives a common purpose, lays emphasis on opportunities to pursue and inspires every stakeholder in the organization. • Strategic intent is usually derived from the company’s vision (or) many a times strategic intents form the basis for creating a vision for the organisation. • Strategic Intent directs the organization’s focus, thoughts and actions to the present. •…
Strategy execution best practices: Follow ups are known to be a “routine” practice at most organizations to ensure things get done. Whether between managers and reportees or among peers, follow ups are considered almost necessary to get things accomplished. Needless to say, the amount of time spent here eats into one’s ability to be “productive”, apart from fueling frustration. This apart, an innate culture of follow ups is bound to hamper the ability to service…
Strategy execution capability building: Skills for strategy execution / Skills for goal execution Real time capability building is about precise and contextual application of skills and knowledge to the present wants of the job. Being agile and constantly working on building aligned and precise skills & knowledge across the organisation is the need of the hour considering the ever-changing landscape of business and the specific needs of people. Present learning methodologies Vs real time The…
