Connecting Strategy to Results for Operators
James Dowling
Maker - coach - enterprise builder
Amber Román
Orchestrator of enterprise performance
Leverage a shared framework that accelerates aligned decision-making.
When conditions change, organizations often lose time revisiting decisions, normalizing inconsistent information, and validating interpretations of what matters most.
Teams often lack a system for enabling and empowering aligned action on local and enterprise-level investments. To address this, we suggest applying a Framework for Adaptive Enterprises (FAE)
FAE provides a better way to work together - bring shared perspective of mission at hand to project teams to minimize storming and norming. In short, FAE provides structure and content of trusted information that is required for distributed decision-making, connecting aspirations to results, and accelerating your response to challenges.
The Framework’s core value proposition is compressing the cycle from challenge identified to challenge met. It does this by establishing pre-made trusted choices (Anchors), clear delegation chains, and a cadence of assessment tuned to the actual volatility of the enterprise’s environment.
What you’ll learn
Extend your agency with topics often missing or ignored in enterprises.
Normalize purpose, values, vision, goals, strategies, capabilities, projects, processes, and results into one coherent enterprise view
See the big picture and clarify your role
Replace slow escalation loops with trusted, pre-aligned choices
Help teams act faster and more consistently
Identify missing or inaccessible information that weakens decisions, delays delivery or constrains adaptation
Build trusted information that assures buy-in
Design a practical cadence for assessing and selecting choices based on the volatility of your operating environment
Learn how to frame adaptive and technical challenges
Apply FAE to a current initiative
Leave with a concrete plan to improve focus, alignment, and action
Learn directly from expert instructors
James Dowling
A maker, coach, and enterprise capability builder
Amber Román
Coach to enterprises on growth, team performance & capability development.
Richard Lynch
Business performance methodology innovator
Who this course is for
Managers who want everyone to be aligned around a set of Aspirations and Intentions
Program, Project, Process and Product managers who benefit from teams that rapidly come to know what they need to do collectively
New Team Leaders who want to learn in the doing so that they can align their teams to deliver desired results
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from your instructors in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
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Course syllabus
2 live sessions • 9 lessons • 2 projects
Live sessions
5-6 hrs
The more you put in, the more you get out.
Week 1
Nov
12
Connect the dots from Mission to enabled Processes
Connect the dots from Mission to enabled Processes
Week 2
Nov
19
Anchors, cadence, and where to start
Anchors, cadence, and where to start
Framework for Adaptive Enterprise (FAE)
FAE is valuable in any conversation concerning actions to focus, align and activate change.
FAE has been the accelerator of desired outcomes to ...
· Focus, align, and activate communities of interest
· Field new capabilities in response to supply chain disruption
· Capture dominant market share in a new market
· Provide communities of interest with a non-hierarchical trusted structure based on shared perspective
· Share resources of individual businesses for the benefit of each and the collective
· Close a growth gap
· Integrate Org. Design, Change Mgmt. Enterprise Architecture, Program Mgmt., and Enterprise Strategy
· Prioritize programs and projects based on value creation by closing capability gaps
· Target cost reductions by focusing investment and empowering action at lowest practical levels
· Evaluate capability sourcing options
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