Avoiding Expensive Mistakes

Avoiding Expensive Mistakes:

Five Habits for Better Decision-Making

Great leaders do not think outside the box ... they simply have bigger boxes than the rest of us!

This course is designed for highly successful leaders who are faced with intense competition for marketshare.

You are a highly successful leader. You have grown your business, inspired great results, and gained loyal customers and supporters. Your competitors have noticed your growth and impact have expanded, too. They want to reclaim lost marketshare from you.

This kind of intense competition aimed at you is what we call "strategic interaction." It creates a higher level of complexity for you and your leaders. This is where even very effective leaders can hit the wall.

A report by the Center for Creative Leadership suggests that about 46 percent of leaders in America have risen to their level of incompetence.

Size, in this case, does not matter. The real culprit is the move from simple to complicated to complex situations. Too many leaders are unprepared for the shift in thinking needed to thrive in environments of increased complexity.

This course will help you prepare your leaders to win sustainably in the face of intense competition.This requires mastery of strategy and strategic thinking.

Decades of practice, consulting and research reveal 5 Habits that consistently enable leaders to thrive in highly complex strategic environments.

• Strategy governs Plans. Roughly 90 percent of organizations fail to execute their strategies successfully. You will avoid that trap by learning the difference between Strategy and Plans and why strategy must govern, so that you can understand and manage a complex environment while improving the quality of your team’s execution.
• Manage Silos. Determine the best ways to manage silos so that you can improve teamwork while maintaining functional expertise. Silos can impede coordination and undermine productivity – the whole is less than the sum of its parts. Breaking silos can damage your ability to execute core competencies.
• Embrace Complexity and Uncertainty. Discover the secrets of embracing Complexity and Uncertainty so that you can succeed against intense competition and prevent cognitive biases from killing your strategy from within.
• Determination. Learn the key to making decisions in a volatile, ambiguous environment so that you avoid the triple disasters “staying the course” into ruin, becoming paralyzed by incomplete and conflicting information, and over-reacting to new data.
• Learn and Adapt. Develop a sustainable learning and adapting process so that you can create a culture of continuous improvement for your organization – separating your team from the estimated 66 percent that have no formal lessons learned process. Adaptability is a key competitive advantage in today’s volatile, ambiguous environment.

In this course you will learn the 5 Essentials of Strategy and Strategic Thinking through written and video content. Each Habit is centered on clear and concise business, nonprofit, and historical cases. The worksheet for each lesson helps you apply highly practical tips to your personal and professional life. At the end of the module, you will create an action plan for your top 3 lessons.

Expand your mindset. Expand your habits. Expand your results.

To gain even more from the course, schedule time with a certified SLA coach and accountability partner.