Strategy execution is the prerequisite to breakthrough results and fundamental to success. However, executing strategy is challenging, and many organizations fail to execute their strategy because they lack the skills and capabilities for successful strategy execution.

Palladium offers four strategy execution training courses, How-To Training Seminars, that cover the continuum of strategy management, from the early stage of strategy formulation through the critical steps of strategy objective management, alignment, review, initiative management, communication, and finally to the final stage of strategy execution. Each course is outlined below and can be customized to fit your organization's needs. Furthermore, attending all four How-To Training Seminars will enable you to develop, to align, to manage, and to monitor your company's strategy and its performance over time through the Balanced Scorecard. Over 1400 individuals attend our one or two-day training seminars annually.

Developing Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard
The first training seminar in the strategy execution series focuses on the first step in the continuum of strategy execution - strategy formation and specifically reviews the history of strategy thought, approaches to strategy making, and details the approach to strategy formation, including mission analysis, external / internal analyses, issue prioritization, setting the strategy, and linking strategy making with execution.

Mapping Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard
This training seminar concentrates on how to translate strategy into operational terms; create a strategy map; design a scorecard; identify measures, targets, and initiatives; achieve executive leadership consensus and buy-in; and build on an existing scorecard initiative.

Cascading Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard
The third training seminar in our continuum of strategy execution curriculum reviews organizational and individual alignment methods; vertical alignment - cascading, horizontal alignment - between peer business and/or support units; communicating the Balanced Scorecard across the organization; strategic job families; making strategy everyone's job; and aligning performance management systems - rewards and incentive compensation.

Executing Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard
This training seminar defines strategy management and governance; reviews leadership involvement in the change process; explains how to sustain the Balanced Scorecard process over time via strategy review meetings, reporting, the link between planning and budgeting and strategy, the intersections between process improvement management and strategy and establishing an Office of Strategy Management.

Creating the Strategy Management Process
This training seminar will provide you with the tools, techniques, and best practices to understand the critical role of the Office of Strategy Management and how to design and implement the nine OSM strategy management principles in your own organization. In addition, you will have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with the experts from Palladium Groups OSM Executive Working Group Program, the team responsible for helping dozens of organizations set up their own OSMs.

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