Benchmarking Partnerships
Benchmarking Partnerships

 

STRATEGY to ACTION & RESULTS

BEST PRACTICE TRAINING WORKSHOP SERIES in Adelaide

Day 1 (Tue 18 November)-DEVELOPING A STRATEGIC PLAN & MAPPING OUTCOMES FOR KPI’s
Day 2 (TBC to suit participants)-ACTIONING YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN
Day 3(TBC to suit participants)-THE PEOPLE SIDE OF THINGS

Venue:
Adelaide. Riverside Centre, North Terrace (between Hyatt Hotel and Convention Centre) – Meeting Room 2A–report to Level 2 North reception

Program Overview:

Day 1:

  • Develop a first cut one page  strategic plan
  • Understand your core business processes
  • Strategy mapping for key outcomes
  • Develop your first cut few vital KPIs

Day 2:

  • Transitioning Strategy to  Execution
  • Realising targeted KPI results
  • Execution, simple Governance & Delivery Performance Mgt
  • Tools for you to practice & use

Day 3:

  • Performance management
  • Change Mgt & Buy-In
  • Recognition and reward
  • Benchmarking to implement your strategic plan
  • Monitoring

Benchmarking Partners Share Practices, Ideas, Improvements, Advances and current Issues

Next steps and action planning

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Benefits

Bring 2 or more People & Receive 50% Discount

  • Learn from the current best practices learned in Benchmarking Partnerships international benchmarking programs
  • Learn from AXA Australia Strategy Actioning best practices & from their Governance to realise resulting business benefits
  • Share ideas and experiences and best practices with other delegates - facilitated
  • Learn from and network with guest speakers and other participants in an action packed program
  • Harvesting BEST PRACTICES and 'Think-tank' discussion
  • Participate in 'Hands-on' learning about what you need to know and about what you didn’t know you needed to know
  • A comprehensive workshop manual is issued for all delegates
  • Receive Memory Jogger Notes of the workshop proceedings
  • Delegate and speaker contact list provide

Outcomes to Take Away
  • Take away your first cut one page strategic plan to use in your organisation including:
    - Mission
    - Vision
    - Strategies
    - Objectives
    - Key Result Areas
  • Know how to develop your own strategic plan next time:
    - Method
    - Tools
    - Organisational systems view
  • Know how to determine key outcomes and KPI’s from strategies using strategy mapping and systems view
  • Processes, Structures and Tools to deploy your strategic plan
  • Governance to realise intended results
  • Basic tools of Project Management
  • Performance Management processes and tools
You can also hold the workshop in-house at your place at times mutually agreed to suit you – minimum 5 people
(this can include people from other organisations too if you wish). We will bring the experts to you. See option on Registration Form.
 
Day 1 –Tuesday 18 November DEVELOPING A STRATEGIC PLAN & MAPPING OUTCOMES FOR KPI’s
9.00am Registration - Arrival coffee / tea.
   
9.15am Welcome/ introductions/ / learning needs / workshop overview –Bruce Searles, Managing Partner Benchmarking Partnerships.
   
9.45am

Keynote Address – Your Organisation and Strategic Planning as a System.

Presenter: Bruce Searles, Managing Partner, Benchmarking Partnerships.

Session summary: Bruce will discuss a systems view of an organisation and how this is used to develop your strategic plan. The systems view will integrate Inputs, Processes, Tools, Systems to develop and deploy strategic plans to achieve desired outcomes.
   
10.45am Morning tea / Networking.
   
11.15am

Facilitated Workshopping to develop your Strategic Plan.

Using the models and tools introduced by Bruce you will develop your first cut strategic plan including:

  • Mission
  • Vision
  • Strategies
  • Objectives
  • Key Result Areas

Delegates will be facilitated to help each other develop their plans so that they can then do the same in their own organisations.
   
1.00pm Lunch and Networking.
   
1.45pm

Strategy Mapping for Outcomes and KPI’s.

Presenter: Bruce Searles, Managing Partner, Benchmarking Partnerships.

Session summary: Bruce will share examples of how strategy mapping reveals key outcomes to measure your strategies that impact your key result areas. A full suite of tools and techniques will be described for you to develop your own measures (first cut KPI’s) against key outcomes. A strategy tree will be jointly with the group, and then participants  will be facilitated  to help each other build up a set of key outcomes and KPI’s for your organization that matter most!

   
3.15pm

Afternoon coffee
   
3.30pm Sharing of plans, Strategy maps, ideas and experiences between delegates – fine tuning of plans/KPI’s.
   
4.30pm Close.
 
 
Day 2 – on a date to suit participants – ACTIONING YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN

This Workshop uses AXA as a very granular and detailed case study so that we can closely facilitate during the day your own first-cut roadmap and measurement framework for the actioning of your own plans within your own organisation.  The workshop also draws on the experience of co-facilitators Rob Loader and Bruce Searles in working with a variety of other organisations in a variety of industries. You will be asked to bring along your organisation’s strategic plan so you can develop a relevant first-cut action plan with measures during the day. Those who also attended the first workshop in this series will work on actioning the Plan they developed at that workshop

9.00am Registration - Arrival coffee / tea and Planning for Day 2.
   
9.30am

Keynote Address –  Transitioning Strategy to Execution - Realising the Benefits.

Presenter: Rob Loader, Workstream Driver, AXA Australia.

Session summary: Rob will discuss the AXA process for transitioning the strategic plan objectives to project roadmaps including the key roles of business architecture mapping and portfolio prioritisation in helping to determine the optimal project portfolio. He will discuss the role of AXA’s Benefit Realisation philosophy and method and its role in ensuring delivery of the intended strategic value,  relaying practical experience of how to define, track and realise benefits through project driven change management. He will explain the link between corporate strategy processes and goals and project approval and governance processes to ensure delivery of expected corporate benefits via projects, obtaining and using baseline data, KPI establishment and performance tracking and benefit audit learnings.

   
11.00am Morning tea / Networking.
   
11.15am

Actioning the Strategic Plan – Execution, Governance and Delivery Performance Management.

Presenter: Rob Loader, Workstream Driver, AXA Australia.

Rob will extend the prior session discussion and go into details about the AXA governance processes throughout the project lifecycle. He will link this back to AXA’s end to end strategy to execution approach with emphasis on the performance/outcome ‘feedback loops’ between execution results and strategic benefit outcomes.  Rob will talk about the levels and types of governance deployed including governance bodies and the like ( eg. different approaches and levels of governance reporting according to project risk and complexity). He will discuss the roles of the Project Management Office, the tools and techniques to achieve Governance of Benefits Realisation. He will explain how AXA keep Governance simple and how they overcame the resistance of senior management. He will also discuss issues and problems faced and how they overcame them.

In terms of tools – Rob will explain the role of some of the key tools AXA use, particularly reporting tools, business case structures/contents and project bidding tools (linking to the strategy process). He will talk about lessons learned and how this has evolved over time... The discussion will then extend into the next session for you to workshop to design how to action your strategic plan.
   
1.00pm Lunch and Networking.
   
1.45pm

Facilitated Workshopping for you to initiate a roadmap and measures to Action your Strategic Plan. Facilitated by Rob Loader and Bruce Searles.

   
3.15pm Afternoon coffee.
   
3.30pm Sharing of Actioning Plans and Ideas and Experiences between delegates – fine tuning of action plans.
   
4.30pm Close.
 
 
Day 3 – On a date to suit participants – THE PEOPLE SIDE OF THINGS
9.00am Registration - Arrival coffee / tea.
   
9.10am Review of Day 2 and Planning for Day 3 – Bruce Searles, Managing Partners Benchmarking Partnerships.
   
9.30am

Performance Management.

Presenter: Bruce Searles, Managing Partner, Benchmarking Partnerships.

Session summary: Bruce will discuss the development of performance plans by people and teams and the best practices in performance management processes, used to action strategic plans.
   
10.45am Morning tea / Networking.
   
11.15am

Communications, Recognition and Reward.

Presenter: Bruce Searles, Managing Partner, Benchmarking Partnerships.

Session summary: Bruce will discuss best practices learned from other organisations regarding the change management - communication, gaining buy-in and motivation of people to engage them in actioning strategic plans.

   
12.30pm

Lunch and Networking.
   
1.30pm

Use of Benchmarking to Implement Strategic Plans.

Presenter: Bruce Searles, Managing Partner, Benchmarking Partnerships.

Session summary: Bruce will discuss how benchmarking is used to accelerate the implementation of strategic plans and to exceed targets.

   
2.45pm Afternoon coffee.
   
3.15pm Development of Action Plans by participants and Sharing.
   
4.30pm Close.
 
 
   

Registration Form

Workshop Topic : Strategy to Action Training Workshops - Adelaide
Workshop Dates: 3 days - 18 November & future two dates to suit participants

Please fill out the form below to register for the Workshop, or, alternatively
FAX TO: Bruce Searles (02) 9482 4093
Phone Bruce Searles: 0418 267 794

Investment per person for the 3 day series: $1,980 (all 3 days) (inc GST). ay registration on any day $795 per person per day, including GST.

Half price for each extra person registering at the same time from your organisation. Additional credit card charges of 3% for Visa, Mastercard and Bankcard, and 5% for AMEX and Diners will be passed on to you. Invoice / receipt will be issued on registration.

5% discount for the 2nd person, 10% for the 3rd person, 15% for the 4th person & 20% for the 5th & subsequent persons who register together at the same time from the same organisation for the same days for this training course (indicate additional names, days and roles where indicated below).. Additional credit card charges of 3% for Visa, Mastercard and Bankcard, and 5% for AMEX and Diners will be passed on to you. Invoice / receipt will be issued on registration.

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