Breakthrough Performance Program

Future-Based Breakthrough Strategy Alignment Session

Build a strategy your leadership team completely understand and owns.

Any strategy is only as good as people’s relationship with it. The Future-Based Breakthrough Strategy Alignment Session brings leadership teams together to engage in a powerful strategic planning dialogue in which they create and commit to achieving a bold and compelling future for their organization.

The result is 100% alignment, ownership and accountability from every leadership team member.

Future-Based Breakthrough Strategy Alignment Session

Does this sound familiar?

Misaligned Priorities

Different leaders describe the organization’s strategy and priorities differently.

Lack of North Star

Leaders and managers feel the organization lacks a clear unifying North Star.

Unclear Direction

Managers are unclear or pay lip service to what needs to be done or why it matters.

Personal Agendas

Teams promote their agenda rather than collaborating around common goals.

Inconsistent Execution

Your organization has a strategic plan, but execution is inconsistent.

Lost Momentum

Strategic initiatives regularly lose momentum.

Conflicting Priorities

Leaders spend too much time resolving conflicting priorities.

Delayed Decisions

Important decisions are avoided, delayed or revisited.

Operational Pressure

Operational pressures continually push strategic priorities to the sideline.

Ineffective Hard Work

Everyone is working hard, but not always in the same direction or at scale.

If these challenges sound familiar, the issue is often not the quality of your people, their commitment or your strategy. More often, it is the level of alignment, ownership and commitment behind it.

What Is the Future-Based Breakthrough Strategy Alignment Session?

Most organizations have plenty of ideas, opportunities and ambition.

But they struggle to translate even well-developed strategies into consistent, aligned ownership and actions.

Different leaders interpret priorities differently. Teams pursue misaligned or competing objectives. Important decisions are delayed or frequently revisited, while short-term operational demands take precedence over long-term strategic thinking.

The result is an organization that remains busy but not aligned and effective.

The Future-Based Breakthrough Strategy Alignment Session changes that.

Rather than refining or defining another strategic plan, the session facilitates a powerful and stimulating conversation in which your leadership team creates a bold and compelling future-based breakthrough strategy for multiplying your organization performance and results, with 100% alignment and ownership of your entire leadership team.”.

The emphasis is not simply on creating strategy – it is on creating alignment and ownership.

When leaders create the future together, they become personally committed and accountable to delivering it.

The outcome is complete leadership clarity, ownership and alignment, strong resolve, fast decision-making, and a team working together with high energy, inspiration, purpose and accountability.

How the Session Works

The Future-based Breakthrough Strategy methodology is based on the following principles:

The Future-Based Breakthrough Strategy Alignment Session is unlike traditional strategic planning workshops. It promises a breakthrough strategy with 100% alignment and ownership from every leadership team member.

There are no right or wrong strategies. It is the job of senior leaders to take a stand, align on the future they are promising to cause for their organization and then prove it right.

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

“Any strategy is only as good as people’s relationship with it.”

1

Owning Current Reality

We begin by understanding your organization, its ambitions and the strategic challenges and opportunities you need to pursue and address.

2

Creating the Future

In a one- or two-day session, the leadership team engages in a powerful and stimulating future based strategic dialogue to align on the boldest desirable and believable breakthrough future for their organization.

3

Strategic Alignment

Every leader aligns with complete ownership, commitment and enthusiasm behind a clear, bold and compelling breakthrough strategy that takes the company to the next level.

4

Governance

The team aligns on leadership roles and responsibilities for governing the bold strategy with accountability.

5

Everything Is Documented

All aspects of the Strategy, its milestones, roles and responsibilities, timelines and execution plans are clearly captured.

6

Execution Plans

The session concludes with clear execution plans for the strategic commitments, including identifying quick wins to demonstrate early progress.

7

Coaching and Support

Gershon provides as much coaching and support as needed to help the leadership team achieve the agreed outcomes.

What the Session Delivers

01

Shared Strategic Commitment

A bold and compelling breakthrough future state that the entire leadership team is genuinely promising to cause and deliver.

02

Total Alignment

Total clarity, alignment, ownership and accountability of 100% of the Leadership Team members toward the strategy.

03

Key Initiatives

Identification of the key initiatives – existing and new – that are required to fulfill the bold strategy.

04

Executive Accountabilities

Clear executive owners accountable for leading and driving each strategic commitment.

05

Strong Foundation for Execution

Shared clarity, alignment, ownership, accountability and excitement for the execution journey ahead

06

Improved Collaboration and Communication

Improved cross-organisational and cross-level collaboration and communication.

07

A Strong Foundation for Execution

Gain clarity, momentum and collective ownership, commitment and excitement for the breakthrough journey ahead.

08

High Energy

High level of energy, excitement, optimism and eagerness to achieve the future outcome.

Is This Right for Your Organization?

This program is particularly valuable if:

  • Your organization is developing a new strategic direction.
  • You lack a powerful, unifying aspirational north star for everyone to rally behind.
  • Existing strategic plans have failed to gain traction or progress.
  • Different leaders appear to have different priorities or agendas.
  • Your organization is struggling and needs an infusion of focused energy.
  • Growth has created increasing organizational complexity.
  • Major change or transformation is planned.
  • You want your leadership team to move toward greater commitment, ownership and accountability.
  • You want to take your organization to a new level.

If your organization has the ambition to achieve more but needs stronger alignment, commitment and drive around where it is going and how it will get there, this session provides the framework to create that shared future.

Great strategies don’t fail because they lack ambition.

They fail when people never fully commit to making them happen.

Create a future your leadership team believes in, owns and is ready to deliver.