Kick start your Organisational Fitness – take the leadership team challenge

• The underlying reason for the existence of the organisation, the core purpose
• At the heart of what people do must lie something grand and aspirational
• Need to answer the “why” question again and again until purpose is found

• Strategy – the collection of intentional decisions an organisation makes to thrive
• Boil it down to 3 strategic anchors that will be used to inform and evaluate every decision
• Many leadership teams struggle with not wanting to walk away from opportunities, strategic anchors give them the clarity and courage to overcome these distractions

• The set of principles that guide our behaviours and decisions over time
• Core Values you are looking for when hiring, define an organisation’s personality traits
• As an organisation scales from its founding team to a much larger organisation, preserve the essence of the original organisation

• The need to deal with organisations pressures and silos – most organisations have too many top priorities to achieve the level of focus needed to succeed.
• Every organisation, if it wants to create a sense of alignment and focus, must have a single top priority within a given period of time,
• The Thematic Goal is a singular. Temporary goal that is shared across the leadership team.

• The simplest of the 6 questions – an organization’s business definition.
• If #1 answers “why”, then #3 answers “what”
• The basic activities of the organisation.

• At some point leaders need to clarify and unambiguously stipulate what their respective responsibilities are when they go back to work to do their jobs.