The Strategy Execution Journey:
Confronting the Challenge of Exceptional Execution
A well-formulated strategy, powerful product or breakthrough innovation can put an organization on the competitive map, but only sustained strategy execution can assure long-term success. Organizaitons can achieve successful execution, converting strategic plans into results by adopting a robust, multi-phase strategy execution journey. Read more on Strategy Execution Journeys.
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The Learning & Execution Journey:
Reversing the Odds: Corporate Learning that Drives Results
There is nothing worse than a missed opportunity, especially in today's high-stakes environment. The unfortunate reality is that learning & development at many organizations fails to deliver the intended results. But this does not need to be the case. So how are today's leading organizations linking learning to performance improvements, strategic priorities and business impact? Read more on Learning & Execution Journeys.
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Why Executives Need More Business Acumen
Do senior business executives usually have all the business acumen they need? After all, they do have vast amounts of business experience. In order to answer the question we started by looking at the data from three sources. Read more on Business Acumen.
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Practical Onboarding: How to Quickly Develop High Performing, Engaged Employees
When you hear the terms onboarding or employee orientation, do PowerPoint parades and never-ending forms flash through your mind? That’s a 20th-century experience that we don’t have to carry over into today’s innovative workplace.
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Connected Learning: People, Practice & Personalization
Connected Learning is about people – not technology. For the last 50 years, information technology has been an enabler and facilitator of human capability. Technology-based learning emerged, extending the reach and transfer of knowledge. Now, the act of connecting ideas, people and action elevates learning to business improvement. This focus on outcomes defines the value and promise of Connected Learning.
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The Evolution of Pharma Sales
The pharmaceutical world has been rocked by massive change in the last decade. Economic factors, an overabundance of reps calling on health care professionals (HCPs), and regulatory changes have Pharma companies transforming the way they sell. Leading players are beginning to adopt business-to-business sales techniques that significantly alter the way Pharma reps interact with HCPs.
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Bridging Learning and Assessment: A New Direction in Leadership Development
Many organizations are challenged with the timely development of high potential general management talent. Leadership development is a critcal challenge because of the significant impact general managers have on the success of an organization.
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Exceptional Strategy Execution: Can Your Managers Say Where and How They Contribute
Improving strategy execution has emerged as the key to achieving better results. CEO’s regularly cite it as a top priority, but few agree on how to make it happen.
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Business Acumen Demystified
Business acumen plays a role in so many rags-to-riches tales. Through shrewdness, vision, and business savvy, generations of railroad barons, pioneering oilmen, and bankers overcame daunting obstacles to create tremendous wealth and value.
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Strategy Execution: Why Some CEOs Fail and Others Succeed
One of the biggest challenges facing CEOs remains the ability to bridge the gap between strategy and results. Aligning, energizing and enabling the organization to follow through on the strategic roadmap are the crucial challenges which determine success or failure.
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Customized Business Simulations: Why are they Effective?
Before setting foot in the real world, pilots, military personnel and disaster response teams use intense simulations to learn how to respond to high-intensity challenges. Why would we place corporate leaders and their teams in situations without first giving them a chance to try things out?
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Is Your Firm Ready To Innovate?
In the recent Conference Board CEO Challenge 2011 report, more than 700 CEO’s interviewed ranked only two challenges — business growth and innovation — among the top five in all three regions of the world.
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