The Execution Challenge: Turning Strategy Into Action
The Execution Challenge: Turning Strategy Into Action
Overview
Who Should Attend
- This program is ideal for many types of professionals, including:
- Senior Leaders who create and implement strategic imperatives at the team, division, or corporate level
- Business Unit Leaders who work with strategy execution
- Emerging Leaders preparing for strategic or senior roles
- Strategic Planning or Portfolio Managers
- Business Transformation and Innovation
- Strategic Business Architects
- This program is also perfect for teams of leaders looking to collaborate in innovative ways to address their organization’s unique challenges. Contact us for team discounts or private cohort opportunities.
Program Benefits
- Reimagine Strategy: Craft your organization’s actionable business strategy and link it to target outcomes.
- Develop Repeatable Approaches: Create consistent methods for assessing options, translating strategy, shaping initiatives, managing portfolios, and maintaining alignment.
- Identify Capabilities: Determine the business capabilities needed to support your strategy and understand their impact on people, processes, information, and technology.
- Plan Implementation: Consider your plans, priorities, and investments through a new lens that leverages a capability-based approach to planning
- Enhance Decision-Making: Utilize business models to make informed and robust decisions throughout strategy execution.
- Act and Execute: Develop a customized plan for enhancing strategy execution within your organization.
- Hands-On Practice: Engage in exercises and case studies to bridge theory and practice in a no-risk environment and emerge prepared to confidently apply your learnings in your organization.
Learn from the masters of this process: This program is created and facilitated by the authors of – “The Execution Challenge: Delivering Great Strategy at Scale”.
What You Will Learn
This 4-day program offers a unique and comprehensive approach to mastering strategy execution, especially during times of change. Learn how to bridge the gap between strategic intent and successful implementation, keeping critical projects aligned with your business strategy, streamlining management of large initiatives, and making the most of limited resources.
- A Proven Approach to Strategy Execution
- Strategy Development, Alignment, and Execution: Understand why traditional approaches often fail.
- Multidimensional Connections: Discover the links between strategy, projects, and required capabilities.
- Informed Decision-Making: Gain new insights for decision-making across the organization.
- Understanding the Multi-Dimensional Business
- Critical Alignment: Connect capabilities with other business perspectives, including:
- Enterprise Design Thinking
- Business Capability and Strategy Alignment
- Connecting Capabilities with Value Streams
- Agile Approaches
- Critical Alignment: Connect capabilities with other business perspectives, including:
- A Holistic Model for Execution
- Critical Function Alignment: Integrate with core functions such as Innovation, Portfolio Management, and Enterprise Planning.
- Developing and Maintaining Line of Sight: Ensure a clear connection between strategy and execution.
- Translating Strategy: Shape initiatives as you translate strategy into action.
- Strategic Portfolio Management: Balance capabilities and investment requirements.
- Translating Understanding into Action
- Leadership: Recognize leadership as the essential element of successful integration.
- Resource Alignment: Align your efforts with the necessary resources within your organization.
- Value Assessment and Communication: Assess and communicate value to key stakeholders.
- Facilitating Change: Build the capability to facilitate required changes in the organization.
- Application: Apply what you’ve learned to develop a strategic execution plan tailored to your organization.
Value For You and Your Organization
Along with new concepts, thought processes, and real-world examples, leaders will gain access to tangible and reusable content to guide and accelerate strategy execution within your organization. This includes:
- Comprehensive Case Studies: Strategy execution case studies demonstrating practical decision-making using various models.
- Real-World Business Model Examples: Learn from what other organizations have done to improve execution
- Reusable Approaches: Proven methods to leverage a holistic business perspective for decision-making in a variety of strategy execution scenarios.
- Analyze Your Situation: Obtain feedback on your organization’s strategy execution situation while formulating concrete next steps to enhance the process
The Executive Programs Short Course Experience
All of our transformational learning experiences provide the right environment for you to quickly develop and apply new capabilities.
Pre-work
You'll have access to a personal learning portal where you will obtain pre-program assignments, travel support (if applicable), and a list of fellow participants. Pre-work prepares you to immediately engage in content and learning allowing for a more effective application of knowledge.
Practical Content
Our learning experiences pair practical action learning and coaching with new knowledge, tools, and perspectives. We'll explore current, real-world examples of how organizations around the globe address critical challenges and how it may relate to yours.
Led by Experts
Plug into our network of thought leaders. Our award-winning teachers, researchers, consultants, and practitioners understand today's leaders and the critical challenges they face. They will work with you to offer guidance before, during, and after each program.
Peer Networking
You'll learn as much from your peer cohort as you do from the instructors! The value of different perspectives coming from different organizations and their challenges are immeasurable.
Faculty
Expert executive faculty who have led significant change within the private and public sectors will provide models and frameworks to help you transform vision into and action plan for results.
Customize This Program
All programs can be tailored to your organization and team, and be delivered to groups of 10 or more. Contact us about custom program possibilities. Customize Request Info 800-311-6364
Additional Details
Our Learning Solutions Associate will be happy to hold a seat for you in this program. A reservation does not commit you to the program until you submit the registration form online. To reserve your spot, click the ‘Save my Seat’ button next the program’s offering, listed above.
Discount Rates
- 10%: Live Remote delivery
Eligibility
Tuition discounts are available for:
- DoD or government employees
- Penn State alumni
- Individuals who commit to earning a Professional Certificate
- Teams of three or more attending from the same organization
- CSCR Corporate Sponsors and other affiliated groups (with valid discount code)
After registration, you will receive access to your personal learning portal. There you can find the following information:
- Pre-program assignments, which prepare you for the program before the start date
- A list of program faculty and fellow registered participants
- Travel coordination and support, if applicable
Transfers
If an accepted Penn State Executive Programs applicant finds it necessary to transfer to another session of the same program, one transfer will be allowed with no charge if arranged more than six (6) weeks prior. Additional transfers, transfers to a different program, or transfers arranged less than six (6) weeks prior incur a charge of 10% of the current program fee.
The sponsoring company may identify a replacement candidate, but the replacement candidate must be accepted for the program through an admissions review.
Refunds
The following refunds will apply for withdraws if Penn State Executive Programs is notified in writing within the time period stated:
- Full refund with notification received more than six (6) weeks prior to start of the program
- 50% refund with notification received between two (2) and six (6) weeks before the start of the program.
- No refund with notification received two (2) weeks or less prior to the start of program.
Note: The registered participant or their agent must confirm all notification of withdrawals, transfers and substitutions in writing. If written notification is not received, the full program fee will be assessed.
Cancellations
The University may cancel or postpone any course or activity because of insufficient enrollment or other unforeseen circumstances. If a program is canceled or postponed, the University will refund registration fees but cannot be held responsible for any other related charges, or expenses, including cancellation/change charges by airlines or travel agencies. In the case of postponement, as an alternative to a refund, program fees may be transferred to another session of that program.
If you have any questions or concerns about our cancellation policy, please contact us to discuss further.