Professional Training & Coaching - Algonquin, Illinois, United States
Communicating and implementing a company's strategy internally and externally so that all employees, partners, suppliers, and contractors understand the company-wide strategic plan and how it carries out the company's overall goals.Driving decision-making that creates medium- and long-term improvement.Establishing and reviewing key strategic priorities and translating them into a comprehensive strategic plan.Monitoring the execution of the strategic plan.Facilitating and driving key strategic initiatives through inception phase.Ensuring departmental/unit strategic planning projects reflect organizational strategic priorities.Partnering with institutional leadership, special committees, and consultants to support execution of key initiatives.Developing inclusive planning processes.Translating strategies into actionable and quantitative plans.Mobilizing and managing teams of individuals charged with executing strategies.Acting as a resource across an organization to increase broad cohesion for strategic plans.In terms of the Sr. Managers role, which varies significantly from organization to organization and evolves over time, the two basic roles strategy developer and strategy implementer are observable. This dichotomy can be further divided into four Leadership archetypes.Internal Consultant: focused almost exclusively on strategy formulation.Specialist: have specialized skills that are not otherwise present within an organization.Coach: work to provide information to strategy creators and facilitate communication betweenteams, team members and stakeholders.Servant Leader: Servant leadership is a philosophy and set of practices that enriches the lives of individuals, builds better organizations and ultimately creates a more just and caring world.