Clear Strategic Focus

What actions are you taking to actively create your organization's future?

How are you adapting to major changes in your company or industry ?  Are there new technologies or competitors, a shifting customer base, a new product line or a merger?  Has achieving the most fundamental bottom-line goals become a challenge?

WilderWeber will help you develop a competitive marketplace focus through well-planned change initiatives that engage employees system-wide, maximize commitment and deliver smooth execution.   We can help you leverage your organization’s strengths and resources strategically while building the resilience and adaptability necessary to capitalize on opportunities.

Process

To create Clear Strategic Focus, we orient leaders to the organization's positive core -- unique strengths, talents, relationships and heritage.   Once clarified, leaders can more artfully leverage these assets to capitalize on opportunities. This practice delivers many benefits:  uncovering valuable information, ensuring that employees take responsibility for change, and paving the way for stream-lined execution. Our process:

  • Inquire:  Gather Relevant Information
    Examine what the organization knows and needs to know.
  • Insight:  Facilitate Strategic Idea Formulation
    Make predictions about the future, identify the best opportunities and decide what gaps to close.
  • Innovate:  Formulate Plans
    Create options, achieve consensus, check decisions for feasibility and decide how best to implement.
  • Implement:  Execute Plans
    Ensure that responsibilities for execution are understood and embraced and that the organization’s culture supports the changes.

Professionally directed retreats provide an effective platform for improving leadership skills, solving problems, creating high-performing teams and clarifying your organization's competitive strategy.

Building organizations today that are as resilient
as they are efficient may be the
most fundamental business challenge of our time.Gary Hamel, 2012

Emotional + Rational Reasoning
Effective strategic thinking needs both

Strategic thinking is usually thought of as rational thinking -- clear headed objective reasoning.  The truth is increasingly building that great strategic thinkers show much brain activity in arenas associated with "gut" instinct, empathy, and social intelligence. 

Research by Giley, Cacea, Lilts.  9/10.

The best-performing companies know that an employee engagement improvement strategy linked to the achievement of corporate goals will help them win in the marketplace.Gallup 2010

Strategic Planning as Learning
Paula Wilder

Planning ahead in today’s economic environment includes building capacity to embrace the unexpected. Planning also needs to think about the future in ways that create the future and adapt to incoming changing factors...