1. People, Strategy & Communication Alignment
- Do you have a pan-organisation perception/sense of strong leadership?
- Is it widely seen as 'planned, consistent, open and passionate'?
- Do you have evidence of cohesion and a strong sense of purpose across the business?
- Is there a Corporate Plan in place - with personal objectives set, aligned and prioritised?
- Is there a clear view of what the company 'Stands For' – And its values?
- Who 'owns' the customer at the Board table?
- Where do I.T. and enabling technologies 'add' to their experience?
- Does the business truly allow managerial freedom?
- Does it draw upon those talents, and understand their weaknesses too??
- If staff really matter - do key messages get through to the front line?
- Do we celebrate success, and thereby motivate the 'front line'?
- Does the top team ever go - 'Back to the Floor'...?
- Is there evidence of a formal/actionable 'people-talent' strategy ?
These are some of the key areas of strategic business alignment, that the AJT Associates team can help you benchmark - against both industry and 'U.K. plc' best-practice... Without a permeating and clear sense of purpose and cohesion (with front-line staff both understanding and motivated to deliver a business's key commercial imperatives) some of the U.K.'s most successful organisations have gradually lost sight of their key customers' needs - and how to meet them profitably...
They have then seen deteriorating market share, in ever more competitive markets (despite otherwise well-run and operationally efficient business-models) losing both long-term loyalty, and falls in both bottom-line and share price... In some cases they have become victims to predatory competitors and new market entrants - and some have disappeared altogether...
It is no longer acceptable for businesses to assume that because there is an annual conference, a monthly newsletter and an intra-net site run by 'the internal PR team' - that their staff are somehow automatically 'bought into' an organisation's goals, and are striving whole-heartedly to achieve them...
The above 'key questions' are borne of 25+ years analysis of long-term strategic success, derived by working first-hand at senior levels within some of the most (and in some cases, less -) 'joined-up' businesses in 'UK plc'... And remember that the AJT Associates team brings not only significant senior line-management experience - but also prior blue-chip consultancy skills - to this objective and ‘hard’ commercial evaluation of alignment, and its ultimate long-term impact on your organisation's bottom-line...
Some recent AJT Associates projects...
- We have delivered corporate planning programmes at Group level, for a number of well-known 'household name' brands - including post-merger integration, and multi-national 'task-force' planning - successfully directing multi-functional commercial responses, to new market threats from global players...
- We have developed new customer-orientated, cultural change programmes for highly established organisations - engaged in both the hospitality and FS arenas... Managing their design and execution first-hand - generating renewed focus, improved staff feedback and increased market share...
- We have worked with a number of boards to develop and implement communication and corporate 'climate-tracking' programmes - working with senior HR teams to check that cultural alignment/feedback mechanisms are in place – and that they are generating robust and actionable data, which is then acted upon by the 'top team'...!
More details on how our team can rapidly add to your organisation's skill-base, can be found at Our Capabilities and Who We Are.
And a list of satisfied customers - together with details of some of our most recent commercial projects - can be found at Our Clients...
Call us now on 07974-201605 for more information...