Strategic planning, strategy execution, strategic development, leadership, management development, corporate culture, organizational planning, growth strategy, exit strategy

Strategic Development

Strategic Development™ integrates awareness and analysis with strategic planning, leadership development, employee development, and results management systems. When integrated, these best practices create an ongoing process within the organization that leads to enhanced performance.

While many firms concentrate on only one of these practices, we've learned to integrate them in a way that creates a multiplier effect. Building from a solid foundation that starts with the top leadership team, we help drive performance around strategic initiatives throughout the organization through proven developmental processes and results management systems.

Planning and Development cannot exist in a vacuum if you expect to achieve a ROI.

Planning without some form of communication and implementation process results in a plan that is not fully executed and lacks commitment from those who will be responsible for its implementation. Development without planning can also be self-defeating, if it is not directed toward "What Matters Most" to your organization. By integrating both, we have the ability to enhance the execution of your strategic plan and ensure that your organization's development is directed toward organizational goals, which will result in significant ROI.

Enhancing execution requires behavior change.

One thing we have learned over the years is that for results to be enhanced, behaviors must change. We accomplish this through developmental processes that change behaviors, teach solid management and productivity skills, and transform the organization into a results-based, goal oriented culture that is focused on execution of "What Matters Most" to your organization.

Strategic Development - Tailored to fit the organization’s operational and financial needs

Our partnership with Leadership Management, Inc. (“LMI”) provides customers a proven, integrated Strategic Development ProcessTM to move the business from the present to the desired future.

Integrates services of needs awareness, organizational planning, individual development,
and results management.
Moves theory into practical application
Focus on “What Matters Most”
Development process not an event
Development tools not training programs.
Ability to “phase into the process”
Customizable, off-the-shelf solutions

Strategic Analysis – “Awareness”

Client Benefit – Building a Wealth of Knowledge

Intense review of the business from both an internal and external perspective.
Pre-workshop activities
- Executive Profile Evaluations
- Cultural and Customer Surveys (limited to comprehensive)
- Executive Questionnaires (state of the business)
- Data Analyses (market, customer, financial, operational)
One day,executive management team workshop to develop a comprehensive understanding of the business, its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT Analysis)
- Examine market and competitive realities
- Examine internal and external environment
- Examine managerial effectiveness
- Identify major opportunities for growth in people, skills, and results

We guarantee you will have the critical information required to develop a successful growth strategy or exit strategy and you can take one or more immediate actions to increase profit.

We guarantee you will have an executable growth or exit strategy that creates business wealth and owner equity.

Strategic Planning

Client Benefit – Building a Wealth of Opportunities

Executive management team workshops which use the knowledge gained from the Strategic Analysis Workshop to define the future business and develop an Organizational Plan of Action.
- Common Vision, Purpose, Values, Mission
- Strategy Formulation
- Strategic Plan
Key individual assessments are completed to identify the development needs required to execute the Strategic Plan.
Development of tactical Operational Plans & Budgets developed by the management team.
- Departmental Goals
Communicate Strategy

Development

Client Benefit – Building a Wealth of Talent and Capabilities

Building a Wealth of Talent and a results-based culture through development tools and processes (typically 2 hrs./wk. workshops over 8 to 12 weeks)
- Executive Leadership Development
- Management and Supervisory Development
- Employee Productivity, Team & Staff Development
- Sales & Marketing, and Communication Development
- Goal Setting and Plans of Action
- New hire assessment tools and processes
- Organization tools
Optional process and technology infrastructure development through Axis Leadership Group’s affiliated Partners to improve operating performance and build a platform for growth.

We guarantee to improve your organization’s capabilities and focus on “What Matters Most” to achieve the results outlined in your strategic plan.

We guarantee to increase your organization’s accountability towards achieving measurable and sustainable results.

Results Management

Client Benefit – Building a Wealth of Results

Deployment of a Results Management System
- Monthly Performance Review Meeting to ensure the company is achieving the expected results
- Strategic Plan Update
- Performance Tracking Software
  - Award winning business management software solution
  - Links everything from the strategic plan to today’s work information transactions (e-mail, to-dos, project reports, spreadsheets)
  - Organizes project and performance data into an efficient “goal, action plan and results” daily work process.
  - The entire team is equipped to align project and performance management with strategic objectives and move beyond managing based upon spreadsheets, e-mail and to-do lists.