Divisional strategy: 10 Organizational Development interventions (Organizational Development Interventions Library) - Softcover

Tearle, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798451922453

Publisher: Independently published, 2021

Synopsis

This practical book contains 10 interventions a facilitator can use to help a team to develop a strategy at divisional, business unit or functional level. These interventions can be used in both online and physical meetings. The interventions will help a team to:

• Reflect on the journey their division has taken to date and the strengths that the team can use on the next phase of their journey.
• Uncover the paradigms that drive what currently happens in their division. Then develop new paradigms that open up new possibilities and opportunities for the division.
• Develop a vision of the future organization within which the division will operate.
• Analyse what stakeholders expect from the division.
• Use trends to identify new opportunities for the division.
• Develop a scenario of the future environment within which the division will operate.
• Use their division’s strengths to identify new opportunities.
• Develop a new identity for their division.
• Develop an extended vision for their division that shows what they will need to have in place to delight their future stakeholders.
• Identify the first steps to implement the divisional vision.

As a leader of a division, business unit or function, you will need to develop a divisional strategy whenever:

• Your organization or group develops a new strategy which will now place additional demands on the area you control.
• You need to ‘align’ the strategy of your division, unit or function to the organization’s strategy.
• You need to present a powerful strategy to your executive team or board of directors in order to get the budget your division needs.
• You have a number of departments reporting to you - each headed by a good leader. But the different departments are not supporting one another in the way they should.
• Customers of your division complain that it is difficult to get a problem solved that cuts across the different departments in your division.
• Your team complains that they are stressed. There are too many projects and initiatives. Priorities are unclear.

In this book, we give you 10 tried and tested 'recipes' to help facilitate a strategy workshop at a divisional level. Like any good recipe we provide all the information you may need to successfully facilitate each intervention. This includes:

• The goal of the intervention.
• Who the intervention is for.
• The time required.
• The materials you will need.
• Instructions for a practical group activity.
• Instructions for getting feedback after the group activity.
• An explanation of why this intervention works.

In this book, Ruth Tearle shares the practical interventions she has used successfully as a sought-after strategic planning consultant. These interventions are powerful because they help teams to develop a strategy that provides focus for the division, aligns to the corporate strategy, and delights the stakeholders of the division.

If you are a leader of a division or business unit, a strategist, an Organizational Development facilitator, or a Human Resources business partner, then this is a book to keep in your professional toolkit.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798451922453
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 86