Audience Insights Strategy and Vision Follow Up

It was great to work with you and help you build your strategy and vision.

My number one recommendation right now is to hold on tight.

This is the time when others will question your strategy and vision.

Is this really a strategy?

Is the vision aspirational enough?

Is it too aspirational?

"When I worked at X company, we had something that was different to this."

Hold on tight.

The process we went through was designed to enable you to create something that will work for you as a function and a team.

While your teams will have some opportunity to influence the vision, it shouldn't change much, and in the months ahead, you will work together to bring the vision to life and execute the tactics and actions that will deliver the strategy.

And you will be so proud when you do.

Here are some resources to help keep the workshop fresh in your mind.

Here is a review of the key Personality Programmes.

And here is a recap on The Solutions Focus.

(You could also read the book The Solutions Focus by Mark McKergow and Paul Z. Jackson.)

We touched briefly on the work of Patrick Lencioni and what makes a team dysfunctional. Here's a great video that introduces his Five Dysfunctions of a Team.

Lencioni's books are a great read and a bit different from the norm. Other books I recommended include The Skilled Facilitator and Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams by Roger Schwartz and The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner.

My book, The Alignment Advantage, focuses on the Aligned framework that we covered and focuses on each stage in detail. If you would like a copy, just drop me an email and I'll get a complimentary copy to you.

How are you doing in creating your decision-making toolkit?

I would rather that you create your own, but if you want a head start, you can drop me a line and I'll send you ten useful decision-making tools for decisions with different degrees of importance and commitment.

Thank you again for contributing to the workshop so openly and bringing the energy and insight that you did.

I look forward to seeing you again soon.

Richard