Leading strategy

‘Strategy’ is a systematic plan designed to enable an organisation to meet its goals. You play a key role in shaping the strategy and, critically, keeping focus on it.

Frequency – annual reviews, ongoing reinforcement.

Key participants – your leadership team.

Leadership rating: Leadership7

Objective

If an organisation has set itself a clear vision, it will also establish a strategy – this is a clear plan which sets out what the organisation’s key goals are and how these are going to be achieved.

Managing the organisation on an integrated daily basis towards its goals demands a strategic plan that sets out key priorities and activities. These activities will be the areas of focus to which all teams’ individual plans contribute, ...

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