Strategic Direction | Strategy Execution | Performance Triage

Envision the Future and Develop the Power to Get There

David Seregow is uniquely qualified to facilitate strategic success and offers a comprehensive, integrated, whole-organization approach. Focusing on strategic direction, strategy execution, and performance triage, Leadership Services enable the senior team to envision the future and develop the power to get there.

Your organization may own the past and be a leader today, but the battle for the future is up for grabs and must be continually fought and won — today's success is no guarantee of tomorrow's.

Only when an organization clearly defines what it wants to be and achieve — envisioning the future — and develops the sustained ability — the power — to effectively focus, align, and mobilize its talent and organizational resources will it successfully realize its strategic goals.

Through collaborative engagement, David Seregow partners with executive leaders and teams to identify and remove barriers to high-impact execution and sustainable differentiation.

Typical clients include growing, high-potential, small to midsize public companies and business units of global companies wanting to ensure:

• Clear understanding of strategic performance success factors across the management team
• Strategically aligned, cross-organization planning and execution
• Successful implementation of initiatives
• Consistent achievement of performance goals
• Momentum-maintaining organizational growth
• Successful post-merger integration
• Sustainable performance in turbulent market conditions

See Barriers To A $Billion for an in-depth review and evaluation of strategic performance.

Strategic Direction

To achieve high-impact results your organization must have a strong, intentional link between it's strategic direction and its daily operation.

The journey toward sustained peak performance and market leadership begins with confirming and committing to a strategic direction and then driving it throughout the organization — the catalyst for organizational renewal, transformation, and strategic success.

Through a collaborative partnership with the senior leadership team, David Seregow helps leaders create a compelling, well articulated strategic direction that:

• Builds clarity
• Creates unity
• Stimulates commitment

These attributes provide the meaning to employees’ work that is so essential to their full engagement and also becomes the foundation of cross-organization teamwork.

David works with executive leadership to confirm or develop the elements of a well-articulated strategic direction including, but not limited to:

• Values — Defining and achieving consensus for what's most important to the company, employees, customers, stakeholders, and community
• Leadership — Building cross-organization sustainable leadership and management strength and effective governance essential to strategic planning and execution
• Focus — Establishing purpose, mission, vision, strategic objectives, core competencies, and strategic measures of success

See Barriers To A $Billion for an in-depth review and evaluation of strategic performance.

Strategy Execution

Your organization IS your strategy. And your organization’s success is measured by how well it’s able to execute your strategic direction.

Leadership’s primary task is to effectively enable and mobilize their organization to execute their strategy. It is also one of the most challenging issues facing leaders today.

David Seregow brings more than 25 years of experience to partner with leadership teams and their organization to build the strategic alignment, focus, and synergy essential to the successful execution of strategy. This requires:

• Strong cross-organization focus
• Integration of strategic direction with talent and operations
• Effective management of innovation

David collaborates with senior leadership to develop the key elements of effective execution which include, but are not limited to:

• Alignment — Tenacious cross-organization alignment of functions, processes, talent, and resources with strategic direction
• Empowerment — Boundary-less communication and tools, values-aligned culture and climate, cross-organization collaboration and teamwork, talent learning and development, and performance management
• Innovation — Cross-organizational assessment and intellectual capital management, continuous innovation, readiness and capacity for change, and high-impact change leadership

See Barriers To A $Billion for an in-depth review and evaluation of strategic performance.

Performance Triage

Even with the best of planning, the unintended or unexpected can and will happen. Markets change, and operational glitches occur. Strategic success depends on the timely response to these challenges.

Sometimes these events are show stoppers and sometimes they are just a bump in the road. Without a quick, targeted response―hard won strategic momentum can be lost.

David Seregow works with senior leadership teams on performance triage, assisting them to quickly address tactical and strategic issues that require immediate attention. So the unexpected turns into performance building opportunities.

Performance triage strategies include:

• Clearly understanding the value and cost of removing performance roadblocks and taking advantage of performance building opportunities
• Identifying root causes of performance obstacles and assessing their impact on resources and strategic goals
• Defining interventions to improve performance
• Building leadership and stakeholder consensus
• Action planning
• Implementation, monitoring, and assessment coaching