Managers & Executives: Do You Need a Clear Vision and Strategy?

Konrad Knell : Strategic Mapping Does your group or business lack a clear vision and direction that everyone understands and can articulate? Are you a manager in a company or business unit that needs a robust strategy to follow that maximizes its potential to succeed in a complex, changing environment? Are you part of an organization that has a defined strategy but needs support in executing the strategy?

85% of business executives believe their company does an inadequate job of setting and communicating direction. Typically, there is no clear vision or strategy. Or there’s not enough agreement, involvement, or buy-in. Or the strategy did not receive the creativity, research, or thoughtfulness it should have.

There are better, more successful ways to plan an organization's future. Making the transition to effective strategic leadership involves:

Establishing a group with the power and teamwork to lead
Understanding the big picture and the issues that drive the need for change
Creating a clear vision and strategy collaboratively
Communicating the new vision and strategy
Leading and tracking high-performance implementation
Regular review and renewal of the vision and strategy

Blue Summit offers total solutions to facilitate organizational visioning, strategic planning, change management, and leadership development. We have worked with a wide variety of clients from well-known Fortune 100 companies to small businesses and non-profits. Clients typically experience:

Clearly “seeing” their vision and strategy
True collaboration resulting in more buy-in and effective implementation
Thinking bigger and more strategically, while actually having fun doing strategy
Positive business results such as higher customer satisfaction, products & services more closely matched with customer needs, and inspired growth in new areas
Increased value of their business of at least 50 times the cost of the project

Read more of the story of how we deliver more value than typical consultants here.

We offer the following services as facilitators, consultants, coaches, and trainers:

Strategic Visioning A facilitated planning retreat that gets to a clear, compelling, collaborative vision and a basic strategy.			Change Mapping An integrated program that supports strategy implementation and change management through visual, collaborative planning and performance tracking.

Strategy Mapping A facilitated strategy development process that addresses complex environments and issues with a robust, visualized strategy.			Leadership Training A series of leadership development workshops that emphasize collaborative planning, creative visioning, visual communication, group process, and personal development.

Storymapping Big-picture maps that tell the story of the direction you have defined or the change you face.			Leadership Coaching A coaching program to develop strategic leadership skills and support creation and implementation of vision and strategy.

If we are a good fit, we would be delighted to help you and your organization set new direction and unleash potential!

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