Practical Strategic Alignment: Building Momentum Through Coherent Action

Practical Strategic Alignment: Building Momentum Through Coherent Action

An online Leadership Conversation on the practical realities of getting an organisation or a team pointing consistently in the same direction.

Unfortunately, we face a counter-intuitive truth: You can’t control your way to alignment. On the contrary, to achieve genuine commitment to a direction from which momentum will really build, we need to let go of absolute control (albeit in the context of clear outcome expectations) and allow sustained, self-organising, interdependent, coherent behaviour to deliver the breakthrough we need.

Is strategic alignment critical to your organisation's performance? That seems likely. And yet, the instinct for more control – more oversight, more alignment meetings, tighter direction – actually makes things worse, creating compliance, not commitment. And compliance is too slow and fragile for today's turbulent environment. We tend to think alignment only comes through stronger direction and more oversight, but that's not true. Real alignment requires finishing the strategic debates, building genuine commitment, and creating the conditions for self-organising behaviour and discretionary effort, simply making everything easier and faster.

We can take a systematic approach to achieving this counterintuitive shift, creating breakthroughs for organisations struggling with competing initiatives and fragmented effort. This conversational workshop will focus on practical strategic alignment and share the core insights and approach that will help leaders make this shift effectively, with options to continue in depth with an ongoing workshop series. Some of the themes are:-

• Moving from control to alignment and why this creates breakthrough momentum

• How to finish strategic debates so your teams genuinely commit, not just comply

• Building the relationship skills, trust and interdependence making self-organisation possible

• Releasing control while maintaining clear expected outcomes

• Modelling alignment in the senior team so that it cascades throughout the organisation

• Creating agility without chaos and focus without rigidity

• Achieving more with the same or fewer resources

• Increased staff engagement, discretionary effort and retention

• Transforming business results

This workshop is ideal for organisational leaders and senior managers who recognise that their current approach to alignment is taking too much effort and isn't delivering the momentum they need – something particularly required in more challenging times.

There is no charge but you do need to register.

I hope you can join us.