Strategy deployment

Strategy deployment (also known as Hoshin Kanri and policy deployment) is a structured approach to clarifying an organization’s most urgent improvement needs — and creating organization-wide alignment and focus about how best to achieve one’s strategy.

Organizations who create and successfully manage a well-crafted strategy deployment plan achieve far greater results in a defined time period than those who don’t. Side benefits include a more cohesive leadership team and greater employee engagement.

In this practical, six-hour workshop, Karen Martin introduces participants to a vital preparation step she developed — conducting “extra effort inventory” — that enables organizations to create a more realistic and results-driven approach for executing their strategy.

Participants will learn:

• The common barriers to achieving organizational strategy and how well-executed Strategy Deployment overcomes them
• The requirements for defining organizational priorities, including a clear strategy to begin with and “true north” key performance indicators
• The steps and typical timeframes for creating an effective Strategy Deployment plan
• A step-by-step approach for conducting extra effort inventory
• Facilitation tips for creating the plan
• How to use “catch ball” to gain organization-wide alignment and create deep engagement at all levels
• How to manage the Strategy Deployment plan
• How to mitigate leadership misalignment—at any stage—on organizational strategy and/or how best to achieve it

Participants will also receive electronic copies of two high-value resources they can tailor in developing their Strategy Deployment plan and so they define and retain focus on the priorities that truly matters.

The workshop includes interactive discussions, including:

• What gets in the way of clarity about strategy and focus on defined priorities (with report out)
• Defining top-level KPIs
• Practice with conducting extra dffort inventory
• Practice playing catchball
• Managing the plan
• Interactive Q&A throughout the workshop

TKMG, Inc. is known as much for its get-it-done approach as it is all for meeting the client where it is and establishing a purposeful pace that matches client need.

TKMG has worked with leaders and improvement teams from every continent across the globe who all seek the same thing: better performance. The company brings a degree of objectivity that internal teams often lack, including deep expertise surfacing the truth, the ability to solve problems of all types and building internal capabilities. TKMG's work is grounded in lan management philosophy, but the company focuses on helping you develop sound business practices. https://tkmg.com/

Karen Martin, president of the global consulting firm TKMG, Inc. and president and founder of TKMG Academy, Inc., is a leading authority on business performance improvement, problem solving and lean management systems. Her clients have included Fortune 500 companies in nearly every industry and government agencies at local, state and federal levels. She’s also the multiple award-winning author of "Clarity First" and four other books and is a highly rated speaker.