Mastering Strategy
A leadership development program that makes strategy a team sport by helping leaders think, decide, and deliver — together
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Greetings from Chris Ward, President of Strategic Directions and Creator of Mastering Strategy
Welcome — and thanks for visiting.
Over the years, I’ve worked with CEOs, leadership teams, boards, and organizations across many sectors. And I’ve seen the way even very capable teams struggle to develop strong strategy, and just as often to execute it once day-to-day pressures return.
In our experience, the issue is rarely intelligence or effort. It’s that leadership teams aren’t equipped with a shared discipline for thinking, deciding, prioritizing, and executing together—consistently—under real operating pressure.
That insight led to Mastering Strategy—a structured leadership development program for intact leadership teams. It helps teams develop better strategy and execute initiatives with greater discipline by building shared strategic capability and a repeatable approach to decision-making.
Interested in exploring how Mastering Strategy can contribute to your success? Let’s talk
Greetings from Chris Ward, President of Strategic Directions
How can we help?
Need a strategy for your business or major initiative? We’ll work with you to build it, quickly, with your entire team on board. MORE
Need a plan of execution that actually works? That’s the only kind we know how to deliver. MORE
Have a stalled strategy that’s too important to fail? Getting it back on track is a specialty. MORE
Need to update or create your Value Proposition, Core Values, or Vision. Check out our Defining Workshops™. MORE
You exhibited a high degree of knowledge and understanding of consensus building with diverse participants. Your patience, skills, and abilities allowed all parties to feel that they had been accurately heard and that their participation was noted and valued. The outcomes were logical, supported, and created a strong base for the organization to move ahead with.”
Susan Cudahy, General Manager, Waterloo Regional Tourism Marketing Corporation
For over 20 years, Strategic Directions has been working with leaders and their teams to plan, restart, and successfully execute too-big-to-fail strategies. Our specialties include:
FACILITATED STRATEGIC PLANNING
You need a highly-focused strategy for your business or mission-critical initiative. And you need it now. Using our Strategic Launchpad™, you will co-create your strategy, quickly, with your entire team on board. MORE
FACILITATED MEETINGS & WORKSHOPS
A well-designed and professionally-facilitated meeting will benefit your organization in many ways – from improving teamwork and building alignment and commitment to planning for change and positioning your organization for greater success. MORE
TOTAL EXECUTION PLANNING
You need a detailed plan to guide the execution of your mission-critical initiative or business strategy. Drawing upon years of experience, we’ll work with your team to co-create a roadmap that leads directly to your desired outcomes. MORE
RESTARTING YOUR STRATEGY
Execution of your strategy has slowed or stalled, and you need to get it going. Right away. Using our Strategic Directions Playbook™, we’ll co-create a plan to get your strategy back on track and keep it there. MORE
Which of the following Strategic Game Changers get in the way of developing or executing your strategy?
A few of the clients we are proud to serve
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