Working Hard Is Important. Working Effectively Is Different.

A business or organization can have:

• capable people;

• experienced leaders;

• useful technology;

• strong products or services;

• dedicated teams;

• clear goals;

and still struggle to consistently turn those resources into the intended result.

Organizational effectiveness depends on how well the organization brings together:

• priorities;

• leadership;

• decisions;

• ownership;

• people and teams;

• available capacity;

• processes and handoffs;

• technology and systems;

• follow-through;

• review and adjustment.

This Challenge helps you examine those connections without requiring you to already know whether the underlying issue is strategy, execution, leadership, teamwork, operations, process, or technology.

Three Sessions. One Central Question.

Is the way your business or  organization works helping you achieve the results you need?

Session 1 — Results, Direction and Priorities

We begin with the result.

You will examine:

• what your business or organization is trying to accomplish;

• whether people understand what matters most;

• whether daily activity reflects those priorities;

• where competing demands may be consuming attention;

• whether important work is repeatedly displaced by urgent work;

• the difference between being busy and making meaningful progress.

The goal is not to create another list of priorities.

The goal is to determine whether the work being done is moving the results that matter.

Session 2 — Leadership, Teams and Execution

Organizations accomplish results through people.

We will examine:

• clarity of ownership;

• leadership responsibilities;

• decision-making;

• how work is assigned;

• whether team capabilities are being used effectively;

• where handoffs create delay or confusion;

• how recurring problems consume team capacity;

• how leadership and team effectiveness influence execution.

We will also examine an important question:

Are people simply being given work—or are their capabilities being used in ways that increase the team's chances of success?

This session introduces the role that individual strengths, team capability, leadership behavior, and the use of people can play in organizational effectiveness.

Session 3 — Systems, Follow-Through and What Needs Attention

The final session brings the pieces together.

We will examine:

• processes and workflow;

• recurring problems;

• business systems;

• technology and platforms;

• unnecessary manual work;

• follow-through;

• review and adjustment;

• what appears to deserve attention first.

Technology can provide capability.

It cannot determine what your business should prioritize, how people should work together, who should make a decision, or what result matters most.

Whether you use Kajabi, Shopify, HubSpot, QuickBooks, Microsoft tools, industry-specific systems, or a collection of specialized platforms, the same question applies:

Are your systems supporting the way the business or organization needs to work?

Leadership and Team Effectiveness Matter

Organizational effectiveness is not only about systems and processes.

Leaders influence:

• priorities;

• decisions;

• clarity;

• accountability;

• ownership;

• how people are used;

• how effectively teams work together.

Teams influence:

• how work moves;

• how problems are solved;

• how information is shared;

• how decisions are implemented;

• how different capabilities are brought together.

A business can have the right strategy and the right technology and still struggle if the people responsible for execution are not being used effectively.

That is why leadership and team effectiveness are part of this Challenge.

Who Is This Challenge For?

This Challenge is designed for people responsible for making work and results happen, including:

• business owners;

• entrepreneurs;

• executives;

• managers;

• team leaders;

• nonprofit leaders;

• association leaders;

• public-sector and municipal leaders;

• operations leaders;

• project leaders;

• professional and service-business owners;

• manufacturers;

• specialty businesses;

• leaders of growing organizations.

   

You do not need to work for a large corporation.

Individual, business, and organizational effectiveness matter anywhere people, priorities, resources, systems, and work have to come together to produce a result.

What You Should Gain From the Challenge

By the end of the three sessions, you should be better able to:

• distinguish activity from meaningful progress;

• recognize conditions that may be limiting effectiveness;

• examine whether priorities and resources are aligned;

• identify leadership and decision-making issues affecting execution;

• consider whether team capabilities are being used effectively;

• identify process, handoff, or system issues creating unnecessary work;

• determine which effectiveness issue deserves closer attention.

   

You bring the business or organizational context.

You make the decisions about what applies and what needs to change.

Why Navigator?

Navigator Strategic Leadership Solutions approaches organizational effectiveness from the connection between:

--business decisions

--people

--systems

--leadership

--teams,

--execution.

LJ Macko brings more than 20 years of experience in business, business execution, and strategy execution, supported by professional credentials in strategy management, strategy implementation, executive coaching, leadership, team effectiveness, emotional intelligence, and systems-oriented work.

The objective is not to give you another collection of business terminology.

It is to help you examine how the organization actually works and whether that work is producing the results you expected.

Program Details

Navigating Excellence: Business & Organizational Effectiveness Challenge

$97

Includes:

• three live 90-minute sessions;

• practical application exercises;

• discussion of business and organizational effectiveness;

• execution;

• leadership effectiveness;

• team effectiveness;

• processes and systems;

• technology and business-platform considerations where relevant.

This is a live group educational and application experience.

Your Organization Does Not Need More Activity Simply for the Sake of Activity.

It needs to understand which work, decisions, people, systems, and priorities are most important to producing the intended result.

Start by examining what is actually happening.

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