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We help you make STRATEGY work better

If your strategy isn’t working, there are a few reasons why and we can help.

At CLIR, we understand why strategies fail. Many organizations focus on creating a strategy but neglect defining processes, people and performance so their strategy works. We know how to make strategies work in organizations because we understand why they fail at bringing desired results to the organization. Through a collaborative process, we provide:

  • Strategy Training

  • Strategic Initiative Management

  • Strategic Planning Workshop Facilitation

  • Strategy Effectiveness Assessments

  • Executive Coaching

We know you want results whether it be growth, waste reduction, increased market penetration or better organizational alignment with high-functioning processes, people and performance.

 
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Why strategic plans fail

You want your strategy to work and work well at achieving your organization’s goals. You also may have invested significant time and funds into designing your strategic plan only to find that implementing that strategy isn’t working. Hidden causes behind this struggle may include:

  • Too many priorities or lack of proper prioritization

  • Strategic processes are unclear or not being followed

  • The strategy is created off-site, and then goes by the wayside

  • Increasing customer demands and market competition

  • Internal resource constraints—not enough people or time

  • Staff has poor strategic implementation capability

Bottom line, many organizations lack focus when it comes to implementing strategy. You may feel that everyone at the table should be able to make the strategy work, but can’t.

We know it’s frustrating. We also know that you want to be able to do it on your own, and we believe you can. The way we approach solving strategy challenges is highly collaborative and supportive—as a strategic coach who goes shoulder-to-shoulder with you to make strategy work.

Solve the strategy struggle

Improve your team’s ability to execute consistent results

Discover the processes, people and performance required to succeed

Get the guidance you need to see it all the way through to results

Make your strategy work better and more reliably over time

And realize organizational growth, better talent attraction and marketplace relevance

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A new approach to strategy that works: CLIR

You may have invested extensive time, resources and money with an outside consulting firm to design a new strategy, and didn’t get a lot. The strategy didn’t work. The strategy didn’t get implemented properly. The strategy failed. Sometimes it’s the implementation, sometimes it’s the strategy. At CLIR, we focus on Capability, Leadership, Insights and Results to make strategy work at driving the results you want:

Capability

We focus our coaching on building capability in strategy for you and your team. What's needed is not a single process or a single person, but a capability—the leadership team's combined knowledge, process, people, technology and culture—which together capitalize on opportunities and respond to challenges as they emerge—not once a year when it's strategic planning time.

Strategy evolves from formulation through execution. What that means is to be successful, organizations need to have a stable platform from which to operate. That platform is a well-developed capability in strategy.

Leadership

To be effective in strategy, organizations need leaders who are strategic. Fewer than 10% of senior managers are, in fact, strategic leaders. This comes as no surprise given the focus of most companies remains relentlessly on delivering operational results. Leading strategy and building strategy capability requires strategic leaders—which is why we focus on this at CLIR. We help you and your team develop the strategic leadership skills to drive results from strategy.

Insights

Strategy skills and capabilities are developed when leaders gain accurate and deep, intuitive understanding of how choices and actions lead to results in their organization. This understanding is called insight. Unfortunately, many leaders and their teams either don't take the time to generate useful insight, or conversely, they overwhelm themselves with data that doesn't correlate directly with the outcomes they are trying to achieve with their strategy.

Without a clear pathway to organize information, extract key insights and share findings, leaders will continue to struggle to know what works and what doesn't when it comes to driving strategy results. Key insights understood and deployed the right way will accelerate your organization's strategy and put you on a direct route to achieve meaningful results.

Results

Leader efforts in strategy will be of little value if they don't lead to measurable results. But for many senior managers and the teams they lead this outcome is a reality—increased activity with modest, if any, bona fide improvement in growth, innovation, operational enhancement or profit improvement.

Real results are the byproduct of targeted, tangible strategies and initiatives that leaders and their teams drive to completion. We help leaders and their teams achieve the outcomes they set out with their strategies. Strategy is about change and we work alongside leaders and their teams to help delivery that change as rapidly as the top team can manage.

 

We’re here to help you make real progress with your strategy

Get visible business results with a strategy process your team can run themselves and:

Capitalize on opportunities

Manage risks

Make good choices

Be more agile

Function better as teams

Deploy better skills

Instill greater confidence and sustainability

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