Duke CE Advanced Leadership for Government: Translating Strategy Into Results
2 DAY COURSE

Duke CE Advanced Leadership for Government Translating Strategy Into Results, the first course in the Duke CE Advanced Leadership for Government program, sensitizes leaders to the mindset required to think and act strategically as they lead and execute work in their organizations. Participants will focus on the skill sets needed to translate the larger organizational strategy into their own work and design their own strategies for implementing this work. In addition, participants will learn how important it is to have a strategic framework of reference that aligns the strategy with the critical areas of operations and people in order to enable effective implementation and desired results.

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Duke CE Advanced Leadership for Government: Translating Strategy Into Results Benefits

• You will learn how to:

  • Understand the purpose and core elements of a strategy and apply them in your context.
  • Explore the leader’s role in aligning, translating, and implementing strategy.
  • Review common strategy implementation challenges and techniques for addressing them.
  • Building the agility and adaptability to look ahead and adapt strategy to changing contexts.

• Course Prerequisites

  • Open to Current Government personnel only
  • GS-13 and above
  • Prior leadership experience managing people
  • Recommended 5+ years of prior leadership experience

Translating Strategy Into Results Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction

This module contains the following learning topics:

• What’s your experience with strategy?
• The course learning Objectives
• The course Learning Journey

Module 2: Perspectives on Strategy

This module contains the following learning topics:

• A shared definition of strategy
• Your role as a strategic leader
• The Hambrick Strategy Model questions
• Filling in the answers for your organization

Module 3: Alignment and Connections

This module contains the following learning topics:

• A shared definition of alignment
• Cascading alignment across the organization
• Top alignment challenges
• Applying the Strategy Diamond at multiple levels

Module 4: Execution Challenges

This module contains the following learning topics:

• From Strategic Plan to successful execution
• Top reasons that strategy execution fails
• Where leaders make a difference
• Identifying your points of greatest impact

Module 5: Mapping a Way Forward

This module contains the following learning topics:

• From Translating to Doing
• Priorities, Staging, and Sequencing
• Milestones and small wins
• Building momentum and celebrating successes

Module 6: Compelling Communications

This module contains the following learning topics:

• Good translators create meaning
• Elements of a compelling message
• Seeking and incorporating input
• Being ready with two-minute elevator versions

Module 7: Agility and Adaptability

This module contains the following learning topics:

• Strategy requires adjusting course along the way
• A “Ready for Change” mindset- continuing to look for signals of change
• Revisiting and refining- metrics, routines, communication, and priorities
• Enabling the “Doers” to do what they do best