What It Takes to Run a Great Virtual Meeting
Under the best of circumstances, virtual meetings tend to be less productive than in-person, or than they should be. Read our guidance for best practices to lead engaging and productive virtual meetings.
Most strategies aren’t successfully executed.
Research shows that two-thirds to three-quarters of large organizations struggle to implement their strategies. The culprit is often the lack of process and structure needed to provide strategy execution/transformation efforts with enough discipline to drive traction. The solution? Key interactions orchestrated for a period of time to ensure cross-functional teams are engaged and the right conversations are taking place.
Our Approach
Strategy execution/transformation efforts must do three primary things:
Articulate the case for change – Ensure leaders across the organization understand the factors that are driving the need to change, can describe to their teams what success looks like, and are aligned around the work needed to get there.
Establish the foundation – Clearly define roles and responsibilities for the effort and establish a centralized body to coordinate the work. Once up and running, oversee the creation of implementation plans for the strategic initiatives and begin managing critical cross-functional interaction points.
Track progress and adjust as needed – Put in place reporting mechanisms, forums for reviewing progress, and communications to the broader organization, which are critical for building momentum. Carefully design and facilitate key conversations to enable leaders to review progress, solve issues, and make decisions/mid-course corrections on an ongoing basis.
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Virtual Offsites That Work
Social distancing and travel restrictions have made it difficult, if not impossible, for organizations convene in person. Some controversial conversations need to be had now more than ever, so we need to learn how to do them virtually.
Welcome to the Moon!
Doing business on Zoom, WebEx, Teams and the like presents many challenges, but what’s been overlooked is that these virtual platforms also give managers an extraordinary set of “superpowers”: the ability to do things in meetings that were either unthinkable or enormously challenging in the old days of conference tables and flip charts.