Executive Coaching | Executive Briefings | Strategic Planning

Offering comprehensive, integrated, enterprise-wide leadership services tailored to your company's opportunities and challenges, David Seregow is uniquely qualified to facilitate your strategic success.

Through each leadership service, highly-responsive, personal attention is given to the leadership team and individual team member's goals.

Advisement And Collaboration

With a focus of advising and collaborating with executive and senior leadership to define what they want to accomplish and how to measure and achieve success, David Seregow provides strategic guidance through the following core practices:

• Conducting performance triage
• Developing strategic goals and measures of success
• Defining, executing, and managing strategy and strategic direction
• Identifying and removing barriers to annual plan and strategic goals
• Assessing and strengthening competencies essential to strategic success
• Evaluating and improving performance while reducing risk
• Facilitating change and strategic transition

Core practices are tailored to each client organization's goals, opportunities, and challenges.

Advisement and collaboration often include the Executive Coaching, Executive Briefings, and/or Strategic Planning leadership services introduced below.

Client Outcomes

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

• Clear leadership understanding of strategic performance success factors
• Strategically aligned planning, execution, and management
• Measurable contribution to strategic goals by every element of the enterprise
• Successful implementation of initiatives
• Consistent achievement of performance goals
• Momentum-maintaining organizational growth
• Sustainable performance in turbulent market conditions

Executive Coaching

Success happens over time and is often the result of ongoing guidance and support.

Once the data has been analyzed and the plans are in place, the real fun — and the real challenges — begin. David Seregow offers ongoing guidance and support, tailored to the needs of the executive and senior leadership team and individual team members. The focus is on ensuring success by empowering the team and individual team members to fully achieve what they want to accomplish.

Coaching is available on-going or just-in-time using both face-to-face and virtual forms of communication and can stand alone or be included with other leadership activities. Executive Coaching is often included in the Advisement and Collaboration leadership services introduced above.

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Executive Briefings

Executive Briefings are high-value, interactive sessions addressing issues and practices impacting strategic performance and success.

The demands of leading an organization make it difficult for the senior team to meet for long periods of time. Generally 90 minutes or less in length, Executive Briefings give the the executive and senior leadership team the opportunity to deepen their understanding about, interact with, and respond to issues and practices impacting strategic performance and success. Quickly getting to the key elements of an issue or practice ensures a high level of value in return for the investment in time.

Briefings can be conducted in a stand-alone manner or be included with other leadership activities. Executive Briefings are often included in the Advisement and Collaboration leadership services introduced above.

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Strategic Planning

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

The challenge facing every company is continuously delivering customer value while maintaining market leadership in a chaotic, rapidly changing marketplace.

David Seregow enables companies to meet this challenge by leading and facilitating two strategic planning processes. These processes empower the leadership team to successfully build foundational performance competency and define, execute, and manage their organization's strategic direction and strategy.

Building Performance Competency (BPC)

The Building Performance Competency (BPC) strategic planning process focuses on developing a high-impact organization that achieves continuous customer value creation and sustained differentiation.

Your organization’s success is measured by how well it’s able to execute your strategic direction and strategy. Maximum-impact strategic performance is achieved when your company effectively develops and manages the foundational competencies of high-impact organizations.

BPC engages your executive team in a macro-level, whole-organization review, evaluation, and candid dialogue about strategic performance and the underlying foundational competencies. Key barriers to continuous customer value creation and sustained differentiation, and the business practices essential to breaking through each barrier, are addressed. These barriers are cross-functional and touch every part of your company. An essential pre-requisite to seizing the advantage in both up and down markets.

The BPC process typically includes a kick-off meeting, one-to-one interviews with the senior leadership team, whole-organization data gathering, and two approximately half-day sessions consisting of a series of briefings, presentation of collected data, senior team organization evaluations, priority setting, and change planning. The BPC is often followed by advisement, collaboration, and/or coaching as needed and desired by the leadership team. The BPC process and outcomes are tailored to your company's goals, opportunities, and challenges.

Achieving The Vision (ATV)

The Achieving The Vision (ATV) strategic planning process focuses on developing a strategy-focused organization capable of effectively and successfully defining, executing, and managing strategic direction and strategy.

Your strategic plan must become actionable and successfully executed up, down, and across the entire enterprise to consistently achieve strategic goals and realize your company's vision.

A well-articulated strategic plan is essential to strategically integrating and aligning all aspects of the enterprise — making the whole greater than the sum of the parts. A well-developed plan also helps ensure all business units, functions, support services, programs, initiatives, workgroups, and teams measurably contribute to the achievement of strategic goals. And a well-developed strategic plan makes it possible to effectively manage day-to-day operations while giving emphasis to strategic goals and initiatives. The plan should be reviewed monthly and updated yearly.

ATV engages your strategy development team in an interactive review of the information, processes, and actions essential to the definition, execution, and management of your organization's strategic direction and strategy. Leveraging the results of the BPC (Building Performance Competency) planning process introduced above, the strategy development process builds on the BPC to ensure strategic success.

The ATV process prepares the strategy development team for the next cycle of strategic planning. Typically, the ATV includes one approximately half-day session consisting of a series of briefings, a review of the data and results from the BPC process, a review of existing strategic planning documentation and past results, and the information, processes, and actions essential to increasing the success of your organization's current and future strategic planning. The ATV is followed by advisement, collaboration, and/or coaching as needed and desired by the strategy development team to facilitate and support current or future strategic planning. The ATV process and outcomes are tailored to your company's goals, opportunities, and challenges.