Breakthrough Performance Programme

Future-Based Breakthrough Strategy Alignment Session

Build a strategy your leadership team can believe in, own and deliver.

Any strategy is only as good as people’s relationship with it. The Future-based Breakthrough Strategy Alignment Sessions bring 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, with 100% alignment, ownership and accountability of all leadership members.

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What is the Future-Based Breakthrough Strategy Alignment Session?

Most organisations don’t struggle because they lack ideas, opportunities or ambitions.

They struggle because even well-developed strategies fail to translate into consistent aligned action.

Different leaders interpret priorities differently. Teams pursue competing objectives. Important decisions become delayed or revisited. Momentum is lost as day-to-day operational demands take precedence over long-term strategic thinking.

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

The Future-Based Breakthrough Strategy Alignment Session is designed to change that.

Rather than refining another strategic plan, this session enables the leadership team to create a bold and compelling shared strategy for taking their organization to a new level of performance and results, with complete alignment, ownership and commitment of the leadership to achieve it.

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 to delivering it.

The outcome is total clarity, complete alignment, faster decision-making and a leadership team working together with purpose and accountability.

If these challenges sound familiar…

Inconsistent Execution

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

Different Priorities

Different leaders describe organisational priorities differently.

Competing Objectives

Teams compete for resources rather than collaborating around common goals.

Lost Momentum

Strategic initiatives regularly lose momentum.

Conflicting Priorities

Leaders spend too much time resolving conflicting priorities.

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

What the Session Delivers

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A Shared Strategic Vision

Create a compelling picture of the future that the leadership team genuinely believes in and is committed to achieving.

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Strategic Alignment

Ensure all senior leaders are completely clear about, aligned behind and accountable for their share breakthrough strategy

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Clear Priorities

Identify the initiatives that will have the greatest impact and focus collective effort where it matters most.

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Executive Ownership

Move beyond understanding and agreement to strong and genuine commitment ownership and accountability across the leadership team.

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Faster Decision-Making

Reduce uncertainty and conflicting priorities by establishing a shared framework for strategic decisions.

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A Strong Foundation for Execution

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

How the Session Works

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Owning current reality

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

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Creating the Future

The leadership team engages in a highly open, honest and stimulating strategic dialogue to align on the best desirable and believable breakthrough

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Strategic Alignment

100% alignment, ownership, commitment and enthusiasm from all leaders for a clear bold and compelling breakthrough strategy that takes your company to the next level

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Governance

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

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Execution plans

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

What’s included

  • Initial conversation to understand your organisation, ambitions and current strategic challenges.
  • One or two-day facilitated future-based breakthrough strategy alignment workshop.
  • Alignment on leadership roles and responsibilities and strategy governance model
  • Clear framework for operationalizing the execution plans for the strategy
  • Identifying quick breakthrough wins to show quick progress
  • Everything is documented
  • As much coaching as needed to achieve the outcomes.

Why this works

“When leaders create the future together, they become personally committed to delivering it.”

Great strategies don’t fail because they lack ambition.

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

The Future-Based Breakthrough Strategy Alignment Session helps the leadership team create a future they believe in, own and are ready to deliver.

What organisations typically experience

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Greater Clarity

Greater clarity around organisational purpose and direction.

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Stronger Alignment

Stronger alignment within the leadership team.

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Faster Decisions

Faster, more confident strategic decision-making.

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More Momentum

High level of energy, excitement and momentum toward the future.

Why leaders work with Gershon

35+ Years

Helped hundreds of leadership teams achieve breakthrough performance.

Versatile Experience

Experience from startups to large and complex global enterprises.

Future-Based Methodology

Moving organisations beyond traditional incremental improvement.

Custom Designed

Every engagement is tailored to the organisation’s reality and needs.

Direct but Supportive

Honest and direct style that creates lasting behavioural change.

Is this right for your organisation?

This programme is particularly valuable if:

  • Your organisation 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.
  • Growth has created increasing organisational complexity.
  • Major change or transformation is planned.
  • You want your leadership team to move towards greater commitment, ownership and accountability.

Looking for the complete system?

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

Many organisations choose to undertake a Culture Audit and/or Total Team alignment before the session or continue with Leadership Coaching or the Total Transformation Breakthrough Process to support long-term implementation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this a traditional strategic planning workshop?

No.

This is called Future-based Strategic Alignment session because unlike traditional strategic planning workshops it promises a breakthrough strategy with 100% alignment and ownership of all leadership members.

Should our entire leadership team attend?

Yes.

It is essential that all leadership team members create and align on the breakthrough strategy of their organization, with 100% ownership, and commitment as they are accountable for leading and inspiring their teams to achieve it

Do we need an existing strategic plan?

Not necessarily.

Some organisations arrive with a well-developed strategy that requires greater alignment and ownership. Others use the session to shape future direction for the first time.

Will we leave with clear actions?

Absolutely.

The session is designed to create practical strategic promises, agreed commitments and a clear framework for execution.

Can this be combined with other programmes?

Yes.

Many organisations choose to undertake a Culture Audit and/or Total Team alignment before the session or continue with Leadership Coaching or the Total Transformation Breakthrough Process to support long-term implementation.

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

Great strategies don’t fail because they lack ambition.

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

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