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From Strategic Vision to Practical Execution

At the Enterprise Excellence Group, we support organisations to bridge the gap between strategic intent and day-to-day execution. Using proven tools like Hoshin Kanri, strategy deployment matrices, and goal alignment routines, we help leaders cascade priorities, remove ambiguity, and achieve lasting results.
Whether you're launching a new direction, sharpening your operational focus, or aligning cross-functional teams, our approach ensures clarity, consistency, and accountability at every level.

The Cost of Not Getting This Right

Without an Integrated Strategy Execution System: 
  • Strategy and culture drift apart, weakening your ability to embed change and build capability.

  • Teams operate without clarity, losing the alignment and motivation needed to drive real results.

  • Performance becomes unpredictable, as goals lack direction and accountability.

  • Leaders are stuck in firefighting mode, reacting to issues instead of steering the business forward.

  • Execution breaks down, becoming fragmented, short-term, and difficult to sustain.

To deliver consistent results, your organisation needs more than a plan—it needs a system that aligns strategic goals with culture, people, and daily action.

The Engaged Workforce

 

90% of disengagement is caused by 2 things: 
1. Ineffective leadership behaviours
2. A lack of clear, meaningful goals
At Enterprise Excellence Group, we help you fix both—by building systems for aligned leadership and purpose-driven execution that unlock team engagement and performance.
Strategy Delivery

The Benefits of Doing It Well

When Purpose, Behaviours, and Systems Are Aligned:
  • Strategy becomes embedded—a lived experience, not a static document.

  • Culture drives performance, with behaviours that support improvement and innovation.

  • Financial and strategic goals are co-designed, creating alignment and shared ownership.

  • Leaders lead with clarity, humility, and accountability, not control or confusion.

  • Teams feel empowered and engaged, with clear purpose and real motivation.

  • You build a sustainable competitive advantage, by turning alignment into action.

 

Strategic Point of Difference

 

Our Proven Approach

Beyond Tools to Capability & Culture

Our Strategy Execution Method

Our approach is structured yet flexible—designed to work across industries, business models, and team environments. We guide you through three integrated phases:

1. Plan: Align Strategy, Culture & Financial Goals
We start by clarifying your vision, defining strategic priorities, and integrating culture and financial targets. This ensures a strong foundation for aligned, sustainable execution.

2. Deploy: Cascade Strategy Across the Organisation
Using tools like Hoshin Kanri and visual deployment systems, we help leaders align goals and initiatives from the top floor to the shop floor—creating clarity and ownership at every level.

3. Execute: Drive Daily Action, Review & Adapt
We embed routines and systems that connect strategy to daily work. Through structured reviews, feedback loops, and continuous improvement, your organisation stays focused, agile, and accountable.

Planning: The Foundation of Strategic Excellence

Strategic planning is where true execution begins. Without a clear and shared direction, even the most capable teams risk drifting—leading to scattered efforts, disengagement, and missed opportunities.

At Enterprise Excellence Group, we start with planning to help you define what truly matters: your purpose, strategic direction, and points of difference. This creates a blueprint for alignment across leadership, culture, and performance systems.

A strong planning phase sets the stage for effective deployment and execution. It empowers your teams with clarity, ownership, and focus—ensuring they’re working on the right things, in the right way, for maximum impact.

What We Do in Strategic Planning

Our strategic planning process lays the foundation for clarity, alignment, and long-term success. We partner with you to:

  • Clarify Purpose & Vision
    Define a compelling “north star” that inspires your people and aligns the entire organisation.

  • Define Values & Leadership Behaviours
    Establish core values and the leadership behaviours that reinforce a high-performance culture.

  • Identify Valuable Points of Difference (VPODs)
    Pinpoint what sets your organisation apart—and embed these competitive advantages into your strategy.

  • Align Strategic and Financial Planning
    Connect strategic goals with financial forecasts to ensure resourcing, accountability, and results are aligned.

  • Conduct Full Internal & External Diagnostics
    Use structured tools such as PESTLE, Porter’s Five Forces, Culture Surveys, Value Stream Mapping, and SWOTT to assess your current state and inform strategy development.

Deployment: Where Strategy Comes to Life

Once a clear and meaningful strategic plan is in place, deployment bridges the gap between intent and action. It’s where strategy becomes real—moving from the boardroom to the frontline.

At Enterprise Excellence Group, we treat strategy deployment as a vital second step. Even the best plans will fail without clear communication, cross-functional alignment, and team ownership. Deployment translates high-level strategy into tangible goals, lead indicators, and priority projects at every level of the organisation.

It ensures that people understand their role, see how their work contributes to the bigger picture and feel genuine ownership over results.We use proven tools and practices such as Catchball, Big Room Planning, OGSM, and OKRs to foster shared understanding, collaboration, and buy-in. This isn’t a one-way cascade—it’s a dynamic, inclusive process that builds alignment from the ground up.

Deployment also surfaces interdependencies, risks, and resource constraints early, allowing for informed decisions before execution begins. By sequencing deployment after planning, we ensure your teams are not just informed—they’re aligned, motivated, and execution-ready.

What We Do in Strategic Deployment

We help organisations bring strategy to life by embedding structured deployment tools like OGSM (Objectives, Goals, Strategies, Measures) and OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). Our approach ensures vertical and horizontal alignment—across leaders, teams, and functions.

Through our deployment support, we help your organisation:

  • Translate strategic goals into short-term objectives, lead indicators, and actionable projects

  • Facilitate Catchball and Big Room Planning to co-create plans and ensure shared ownership

  • Align every level of the organisation—from executive teams to cross-functional groups, departments, and individuals

  • Build transparency, motivation, and accountability through inclusive planning and open communication

  • Establish agile planning cadences, including quarterly and mid-quarter reviews, to maintain focus and adapt as needed

Execution: Turning Strategy into Results

Execution is where strategy delivers measurable outcomes. Once planning provides clarity and deployment ensures alignment, execution embeds the strategy into the daily actions, decisions, and behaviours of your people.

At Enterprise Excellence Group, we position strategy execution as the final—but critical—step. This is where momentum builds, progress is tracked, and culture is reinforced. Without structured, disciplined execution, even the most robust strategic plans risk stalling.

We help organisations establish clear rhythms of work, including daily huddles and team stand-ups, visual management boards and scorecards and structured reflection and performance review cycles.

These systems keep strategy visible, promote shared accountability, and enable quick adaptation through feedback loops and rapid performance meetings.

But execution is about more than tools. It’s powered by leadership behaviours—clarity, humility, recognition, and accountability. We coach leaders to model the behaviours that drive engagement and build a culture where people take ownership, solve problems, and drive continuous improvement.

Execution transforms purpose into performance and ambition into achievement—while embedding the habits and systems that make excellence sustainable over time.

How Execution Finalises the Sequence

We support you to implement strategy with discipline and agility, embedding execution systems that drive focus, action, and results.

Our approach includes:

  • Daily, weekly, and quarterly execution rhythms using 1-3-10 visual boards, Rapid Performance Meetings (RPMs), and team huddles

  • Connected performance management systems linking frontline activities to executive priorities

  • Impediment escalation routines that quickly unblock teams and maintain momentum

  • Leadership development and coaching to strengthen humble inquiry, accountability, and timely recognition

  • Review and adapt cadences to course-correct in real time, learn from experience, and celebrate meaningful progress

Execution isn’t just about doing—it’s about learning, leading, and delivering with purpose.

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Details about the Strategic Planning, Deployment & Execution Workshop

Overview

Unlock the secrets of transforming your organisation’s purpose and strategy into meaningful, measurable results. This one-day, high-impact workshop is designed for leadership teams and cross-functional decision-makers who want to master the art of aligning strategy, culture, and execution to accelerate growth, enhance engagement, and build organisational agility.

Led by Brad Jeavons—author of Leading Excellence and host of the Enterprise Excellence Podcast—this workshop offers practical tools and frameworks used by the world’s highest-performing organisations. You’ll learn how to bring strategy to life at every level of your business and embed a system of execution that delivers lasting value.

This one-day, immersive simulation-based workshop is designed to be practical, engaging, and directly relevant to your operational environment.

Why Attend

Research shows that top-performing organisations with strong strategic alignment and execution outperform their peers by up to 10X. Yet most leaders are never formally taught how to create, deploy, and execute strategy in a way that sticks.

This workshop helps close that gap by giving you:

  • A simple, proven framework for integrated strategic, financial and cultural planning

  • Tools to translate plans into execution-ready goals, behaviours and projects

  • Practical deployment techniques like Catchball, Big Room Planning, OGSM, and OKRs

  • Best practices for sustainable execution rhythms, reviews, and performance huddles

  • Ways to align leadership beliefs and behaviours to create an accountable, agile culture

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Workshop Topics

  1. Strategic and Cultural Planning
    Learn how to integrate purpose, financial forecasts, and culture to create clarity and direction.

  2. Organisational Alignment
    Deploy strategy from top to bottom and across teams using collaborative and inclusive approaches.

  3. Execution and Review
    Embed daily and quarterly execution rhythms that drive results and maintain adaptability.

  4. Agility and Quality
    Achieve agility without sacrificing quality by aligning culture and systems with your strategy.

 

Who Should Attend

This workshop is ideal for:

  • Executive and senior leadership teams

  • Operational and functional leaders

  • Strategy and transformation professionals

  • HR, People & Culture, and Continuous Improvement leads

Whether you’re shaping a new strategic direction or refreshing your current approach, this workshop provides the tools and inspiration to align your people, systems, and purpose.

 

Inclusions

  • 1-day workshop with global expert 

  • Strategic planning templates and deployment tools (OGSM, OKRs)

  • Visual execution boards and meeting rhythm guides

  • Insights from high-performing global organisations

  • Post-event reflection and coaching options

  • Catered lunch, refreshments, and resource pack

 

 

 

Big Room Planning Event with Priestley's Gourmet Delights

Brad talks through Strategy and Cultural Deployment through the Big Room Planning Event.

What They Say

We have a solid 5 star rating from the workshop. 

Strategic Planning, Deployment & Execution

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The best key takeaway for me was forming my plan, and setting that up to cascade down through the business. The workshop was engaging, well paced and interactive. 

Strategic Planning, Deployment & Execution

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The best key takeaway for me was the idea of Leading from the Front and the use of KBI's. I will use the OKR's with my team to keep us focussed and aligned on our objectives. The workshop was very engaging - great job and energy!

Strategic Planning, Deployment & Execution

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The best key takeaway for me was the idea of Planning, Leadership, Strategy deployment and the execution plan and I am going to apply it for my meeting tomorrow!  Very good facilitation.

Strategic Planning, Deployment & Execution

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The best key takeaway for me was where to start and the gap analysis. I will build the plan with the CEO. Good and engaging facilitation - it was a big topic, but goo alignment in the process brought out on the day.

Strategic Planning, Deployment & Execution

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Heaps of good things! The best key takeaway for me was the concept of small teams qll working on their strategy and bringing it together. We will be implementing strategy from the top level right through all levels of the organisation. Very engaging. The Audience were all engaged All Day!

Strategic Planning, Deployment & Execution

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The best key takeaway for me was the Framework options and the importance of business comms and collaboration. I will review the opportunity with the Signet/Spicers team for a review and refresh. Brilliant facilitation.

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