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Understanding Strategic Implementation

Putting Your Strategy into Practice in Uncertain Times

Previously Chaired by
David Elverson

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Overview

Creating successful outcomes in your organisation starts with your strategy. A clear and practical strategy enhances your organisation's performance to provide more efficient service delivery.

However, implementing a new strategy can often be both complex and challenging. Our Understanding Strategic Implementation is designed to help you learn the 4 Key Themes of Strategic Implementation and how to apply them.

Gain valuable communication tools to secure senior buy-in and management skills to help mitigate unforeseen challenges that may arise.

Leave the day with the essential tools you need to deliver your organisation's strategy smoothly and successfully.


Change Management Expert

David is a change management and commercial expert, with a passion for helping to create more effective services. He works with a wide range of organisations and their staff on developing their commercial awareness, bringing about culture change and developing and implementing effective strategies.

He has worked extensively across the public and private sectors, working with over 50 local authorities, many NHS Trusts, Central Government departments and Science Councils in the last three years.

David is passionate about translating strategy into action in a way that engages staff and develops buy-in and high levels of productivity.


David Elverson


Learning Outcomes

  • Explore the 4 key themes of strategic implementation to ensure you are prepared for success

  • Develop an understanding and vision for your organisational strategy

  • Learn the tools to effectively communicate the strategy within your organisation

  • Consider and prepare for organisational, cultural and structural change

  • Utilise the principles and processes within the project management framework


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Agenda

09:25- 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 10:00 Trainers Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives

10:00 - 11:15 Understanding Strategy

  • What is your organisation’s strategy?

  • Is it change-ready?

  • Create a plan to implement the strategic objective and achieve success using Mintzberg’s 5 Ps of strategy and test using an Implementation Readiness Assessment

11:15 - 11:30 Morning Break

11:30 - 12:45 Effectively Communicate Your Strategy

  • Communicate strategy to key decision-makers to obtain senior level buy-in

  • Learn how to effectively pitch and position a strategic vision to colleagues though using tools and techniques for influencing

  • Persuasion will be looked at and applied to strategic implementation

  • Use stakeholder analysis to better engage with internal and external stakeholders

  • Utilise management tools to identify how to best work with stakeholders to achieve strategic goals

12:45 - 13:45 Lunch

13:45 - 14:45 Managing Organisational, Cultural, and Structural Change

  • Overcome obstacles to implementing strategic objectives

  • Consider how to adapt systems and processes to facilitate your aims using Johnson and Scholes Cultural Web

  • Identify the barriers to change using Force Field Analysis to work out the most suitable approach

14:45 - 15:00 Afternoon Break

15:00 - 16:00 Evaluating and Improving the Implementation Process

  • Evaluate and improve the implementation process

  • Adapt to deliver the outcomes of the plan

  • Bring together the 4 key themes you have learned during the day and develop a framework for strategic implementation to take back to your organisation

16:00 - 16:15 Feedback, Evaluation and Close

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