People Diligence Workshop: Importance of Strategy

Businesses will gain a thorough understanding of the importance of strategy to an organisation. They will see the true links between strategic planning and decision making at the operational level. They will learn a strategic decision making framework used by senior executives in many of the world’s largest companies and they will be taught how to structure a simple written summary for business stakeholders.

Part 1:

• What is strategy?
• How does it differ from mission, purpose and vision?
• When does strategic planning work and when does it fail?
• What is the difference between strategy and tactics?
• What are OKR?

Part 2:

• Creating the right decision-making environment
• Top-down or bottom up planning?
• Assembling the team
• Understanding healthy meeting dynamics
• Understanding cognitive bias
• Creating a strategic plan
• Understanding the importance of context
• Developing high level strategic options
• Writing the implementation plan
• Structuring a written summary
• Communication to team!

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Claire Hartnell – People Diligence: Claire had more than 20 years’ experience consulting up to C-suite level in companies including Diageo, Ebay, Carphone Warehouse and Coca Cola before setting up People Diligence in 2018. She now works with growth companies to help them develop fast pace, healthy performance cultures.