Strategy implementation is a crucial success factor for organisations. While many organisations create sound strategies, the implementation failures are imminent if the employees at various levels are not engaged in the strategy. People need to be connected to the strategy and understand how they can individually contribute to it. Culture and values have emerged as key components in making strategy happen.

The intervention builds on different levels of engagement throughout the organisation. Usually, people reporting to middle management in organisations are often the most difficult group of people to change, particularly if they continue to operate from their comfort zone, and are not aligned with the direction of the firm.

The themes that would be addressed in the workshop are as follows:

• Understanding business strategy in a rapid growth environment
• Developing strategic capabilities and industry insight
• Enhancing effectiveness in the current roles by improving understanding of the market and industry dynamics
• Integrating functional perspectives to provide strategic insights and effective implementation of business strategy
• Developing skills and behaviours for effectively communicating their vision and goals for the function / business to people below
• Developing competence for coaching others on how the strategy affects their work and how they could contribute in achieving results for the firm

The programme would provide a tool-kit to understand and appreciate firm-level strategy, which can be used to build implementation skills at various levels of the organisation. Specific learning requirements identified for different levels of the organisation in the context of strategy implementation, like change management, and cascading strategy to lower levels in the organisation, can be addressed through additional interventions.