Employee Alignment and Strategic Execution

Employee Alignment is a critical factor in driving strategic execution. A strategy plan is not enough because it doesn't provide employee alignment or define specific employee objectives. Goal setting is not so much about using the right software, it is about executive and management capability in setting and communicating strategic alignment.

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[strategythunkmeister]

This is slick to the point of banal - "Organisations don't perform, people do, one by one..."? Oh, really???

The depressing thing about this sort of stuff is that it's all written from the perspective of "Here's the strategy, now let's align people with it" - i.e. tell-and-sell. Fact is, people buy-in (align) best to strategies they've had some hand in creating. Alignment starts with giving people Voice. If you can say something about that, you'll be saying something interesting...

[PeopleStreme]

We agree absolutely. We deliver strategy mapping workshops to generate buy-in and refine the strategy i.e. it's a high involvement approach. The video was designed to get the message about alignment out whereas actual deployment techniques vary with organisational maturity.

[fergus6671]

good tools

[jellybeanzoo]

This is a marketing tool where they are trying to convince people that if the 'structure' is good enough, people will fall into line. It avoids any thinking about the deeper issues around how people within systems have anxieties that need to be understood and worked with. That is the difficult work but it is also authentic work. But I can see how some organisations would sign up to this approach because it is selling a panacea. Alignment: don't we do that with wheels on cars?

[JohnnyBoy810]

I like that video. I think it conveys the right message for todays businesses.