#809: Execution IS the Strategy: How HR Leaders Achieve Maximum Results in Minimum Time

Laura Stack will show you how to create an agile organization by executing real-time strategic priorities. A leader's biggest challenge isn't creating the strategy---it's executing the strategy. Today, strategy and execution are part of the same process, because of the speed at which organizations need to change. In this innovative program, Stack discusses how the LEAD formula has helped other leaders quickly drive strategic initiatives and get great results from your teams. She discusses the Four L-E-A-D Factors in Successful Execution: Leverage, Alignment, Environment, and Drive:

L = Leverage: Leverage is a dynamic tool and has the ability to carve out space for positive change. It can also build bridges between yourself and colleagues in order to motivate discretionary effort, revitalization, and even efficiency. Leverage, or due influence, is one of the most effective tools in execution, and may be the one that requires the most effort. 

E = Environment: In the high-octane world of modern business, you hear a lot of theories about what it takes to increase employee productivity. Empowerment is one of the philosophies discussed most often, especially as it relates to the corporate team environment. The idea is simple enough: by implementing practices that help employees feel confident, capable, and in control of the outcome of their work, they feel empowered to do that work effectively and without excessive oversight or micromanagement. Ideally, this ensures commitment to the company's core mission and vision, which results in greater productivity over the long term.  

A = Alignment: Unfortunately, today, brevity is valued more than clarity. Communicating your organization's vision for the future, developing an environment for growth, leveraging skills and building momentum all require explanation. Clarity provides an opportunity to align your purpose with your focus for forward growth.  

D = Drive: Our definitions of success will change, and our understanding of momentum is unclear. Frightfully, although there is a correlation between the two, they are not interchangeable terms. Momentum requires the alignment of the other elements of effective execution: clarity, synergy, and leverage. But momentum is also the product of priority, decisiveness and concentration. Therefore, momentum will always be defeated by passiveness.