Strategic Planning is crucial to the success of any organization – small

and large. These plans are often created over days and weeks and often

with many people involved. A lot is invested in this critical tool. The trouble

is that most of these plans fail – as many as 45%.

Mind The Gap Please! Bridging the Gap from Strategy to Execution

addresses the seven specific reasons companies lose focus on their

Strategic Plan and will help you pinpoint the exact reason (or reasons)

your company is stuck. By the end of the session you will have the first

clear steps to creating the results you need.

This interactive and hands-on session will address 4 key areas:

Learn what successful organizations do to set themselves up for strategy execution success

Discover where the gaps are in your organization between strategy and execution

Take part in a planning session on what to do about those gaps.

Help set goals for the organization going forward

This keynote presentation will provide:

An in-depth look at why most strategic plans fail – across your industry and elsewhere.

An opportunity to evaluate your own internal strategy execution practices and identify

major gaps in your execution culture

An interactive mini-workshop to set action steps addressing identified critical gaps

The best audience for this speech is any part of your leadership or management team. Everyone needs to

understand how to make the connection to the strategic plan for the people who work fore them. That is the critical

connection. This is not just a C-Suite issue. If they manage a team of developers, or engineers or product managers

or anyone with a stake in the health of your organization, they are a good audience for this.

KEYNOTE

Mind the Gap Please!Bridging the Gap between Strategy and Execution by

Creating a Culture That Will Ensure Strategy Success

KEYNOTE & WORKSHOP

“I couldn’t have asked for a more engaged and engaging public speaker to give the opening keynote

presentation at my most recent summit.”

Summits Portfolio Manager, WTG Events

Leaders need to be many things to many people but so

often we lose sight of the real goals and mission.

Are we delivering on our plan?

Are we doing what we told our major stakeholders we would do?

Are we staying focused on the strategic plan we set in place months

or years ago?

Unfortunately, the answer to most of this is no. With so much going

on, with such rapid change charging at us continuously, and with so

many balls in the air, it is easy to lose focus.

This session is a hands-on, interactive look at what’s really going on

in your own organization – asking the critical question, what is holding

us back from successful execution and ultimately offering up ideas

on how we can fix the problem.

As he does for all of his engagements, David Barrett uses real-time,

audience-response tools to gauge the issues at hand and set a

specific agenda for the session.

This is a keynote presentation that typically contains:

An overview of the 7 Elements of Strategy Execution as described in our book

An interactive session that engages to the audience with remote feedback technology

to gauge the level of understanding of the audience and the ‘connectiveness to the

plan’ of the audience.

A breakout session to discuss real issues within the organization’s execution culture

as identified above

The session can run 45-90 minutes and will be customized to your organization’s

strategic goals and leadership development plans.

WORKSHOP

“Execution is not just something that does or doesn’t get done. Execution is a culture with specific set of

behaviors and techniques that companies need to master in order to have competitive advantage.” Ram

Charan

David uses real-time, audience-response tools to gauge the issues at hand and to set a specific agenda

for this interactive session. You may pre-set the agenda or let the cards fall where they will – but in the

end you are guaranteed to come away with a set of action items and steps to take to address key issues

within your strategy execution culture.

Once the keynote session has set the ground work for your group, this extra time will provide the

deep-dive required for a topic like this – but customized to YOUR organization’s key objectives and

culture.

You will come away with:

A solid understanding of the state of your strategy

execution culture and engine

A new-found knowledge of why strategy plans fail and

which of the many reasons are relevant in your environment

A set of action items that will help your organization move

to an execution culture that can deliver on a strategy

David Barrett

dbarrett@solutionsnetwork.com