Let's contrast SMG's ability to turn a strategic agenda into executable actions with a typical strategy execution scenario.

Strategy aligns crucial work.

SMG brings a new level of strategic focus and accountability to your professionals' most important work.

Our method has three main components:

1. The entire strategy agenda is consolidated down to a set of common elements
2. Sets of actions for each role describe active agenda support within each role's work context*
3. Individuals are personally accountable for aligning their actions

Summary:

• The strategy is unified, injected into the
• high-yield side of each professional's role, raising accountability in an
• instructive and natural way.

• SMG isn't about adding another initiative - it's about executing the existing agenda
• No additional 'program' or extra meetings required - professionals continue to perform but at a higher level.
• No extra effort or delays - actions are designed to be accountable via observation.
• Professionals learn to think more strategically - what we call Instructive Accountability™.
• Respect for management increases - attention is on the most important rather than on the most easily measurable activities.

Impact:

The strategy agenda is de-mystified;
Professionals clearly see what each must do differently to execute;
Each professional is personally accountable to demonstrate their contribution.

*based on a proprietary operational-cultural analysis

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Strategy aligns peripheral work

• Multiple initiatives are not consolidated nor are the cumulative support requirements discussed
• Multiple metrics are determined for each professional
• Individuals have difficulty reconciling the importance of the strategic agenda with measurements applied to the most routine aspects of their roles (e.g. counting emails sent or received)