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Team development and strategic planning together at last!
Don’t do strategy backwards! And don’t do it on your own either. Strategic planning when you do it well is an excellent way to enhance employee experience and build team buy in.
Why you should listen: collaborative strategy planning is team development gold
Mistakes in strategic planning
Three key steps to collaborative strategic planning
How good strategy builds better teams
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Key Tips:
Step 1: What the hell is going on?
Consider, ‘what might be true in five years’?
Consider the local, national, global trends affecting you, your business, and your clients.
Map out the key drivers and trends affecting your complex context.
STEEPO:
Social
Technical
Economic
Environmental
Political
Organisational
You can also assess the metalanguage and meta story:
Richard Hames - 5 Literacies of Global Leadership
Peter Senge’s systems thinking will catapult your leadership thinking
Step 2: How should we respond?
Scenario planning: pick the two most volatile trends. These are the trends that could go one way or another - the trends that have the most uncertainty. Map these trends on the two axis of a quadrant model. Next explore what these four new possible worlds might look like.
Next, how should we respond to these possible worlds?
Step 3: What should we do?
Develop a results map, develop some measures, targets, and then improvement strategies
Customer mapping. Great tips here
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Related episodes on leadership skills:
E137 - How to be a Strategic Thinker - with Jo Metcalfe
E26 - How good is your strategic plan? Avoid these mistakes
E16 - Common and little known mistakes in strategic planning and quick fixes
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About your host, Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:
Canberra based leadership expert Zoë Routh leadership frameworks for collaborative planning
Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.
Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact, Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.
Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.