Alignment -Creating a Single Organization and Culture Direction

In this two-day course you examine methods to create alignment between the organization’s direction and the soft side of your business – the corporate culture. This alignment is often missing and is the fundamental reason organizations do not accomplish their goals, dreams, and aspirations. This course examines and forces a reconciliation of the issues behind the usual scattered management attention given to being successful.

The Alignment course is a new look at the concept of creating the same direction by an organization’s members and functional teams. The concept of alignment is often elusive, with focus on personal and organizational compatibility. This course is based on the idea that an organization and its work units must focus on the same business driver to be successful. This course helps you to tell a single focused story by:

Applying organizational and cultural alignment principles and theories

Developing single sentence statements for key elements necessary for alignment

Using the mechanics of common and shared beliefs and practices

Requiring multi-level use of a single focus and five related business drivers

Who Should Attend

Designed for upper level management and executive teams responsible for the implementation and leadership of the organization’s strategic direction. This course is a must for executives held accountable for the organization’s planned performance.

Objectives

1. Energize the management team

2. Break the existing status quo

3. Create a new business direction

4. Alter the existing culture and climate

Practical Skills and Applications

As a result of this activity, you should be able to understand and apply the following:

1.      Organizational and cultural alignment principles and theories

2.      Single sentence statements for key elements necessary for alignment

3.      Multiple level application of a single focus and five related business drivers

What You Will Cover

·         Organizational Direction

o        Developing a Vision Statement as the First Directional Stake

• Creating of Strategic Goals as an Operational Interpretation of a Vision
• Writing Objectives for Milestone Performance
• Formulating Strategies to Get Work Done
• Cultural Direction

o        Developing a Philosophy Statement as a Base Line for Grounding

• Identifying Core Values and Correcting Identified Cultural Gaps
• Selecting Transitional Values and Correcting Identified Operation Shortfalls
• Selecting a Single Business Focus From 6 Choices
• Accounting for The 5 Remaining Business Drivers
• Creating Multi Level Supporting for Alignment