Confronting Reality Strategic Thinking Team and Organizational - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

6/26/19 4 ESSENTIAL CONDITIONS FOR DEVELOPING AND CHARLES DAYTON EXECUTING GOOD • Strategy Consultant STRATEGY • City Council • Volunteer • Professional Western Artist • Dude Ranch 4 CONDITIONS: • Confronting Reality • Strategic Thinking • Team and Organizational Focus • Productive Leaders and Staff 1

6/26/19 ON A SCALE OF 1-5, HOW WOULD YOU RATE THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY IN YOUR TEAM? PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY Psychological safety is a shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking. It can be defined as "being able to show and employ one's self without fear of negative consequences of self-image, status or career" LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS THAT CONFRONTING REALITY BUILD PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY 1. Set the stage – invite candor • Denial 2. Encourage team members to challenge you and take • Ego risks • Selective Listening 3. Model openness and humility • Wishful Thinking 4. Express appreciation • Emotional Overinvestment • Ignorance 2

6/26/19 STRATEGIC QUESTIONS CONFRONTING REALITY What problems does our plan need to help us solve? • What opportunities should we pursue? • Denial does not change reality, it What are out assumptions? • simply makes reality tougher to Who are our key stakeholders and how do we create • deal with. value for them? - Richard Tedlow, What environmental trends are significant and how • Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face do we adapt? What disruptive technologies or business models • should we consider? FOCUS 11 3

6/26/19 FOCUS BUTTON PROCESS WHAT WOULD YOUR ORGANIZATION LOOK LIKE IF YOU COULD PRESS THE FOCUS BUTTON? You can’t manage what you can’t describe! 14 FOCUS FOCUS 15 16 4

6/26/19 STRATEGIC FOCUS “All grand strategies eventually boil down to work.” – Peter “I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am Drucker of what we do.” - Steve Jobs PRODUCTIVE LEADERS AND STAFF TEAM ACCOUNTABILITY 20 5

6/26/19 “For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned.” -Benjamin Franklin THANK YOU sales@planplusonline.com PlanPlusOnline.com 6