Bridges Seminars and Master Class

1) Executive Seminar:

Execution Leadership: Leader’s Role in Implementing Strategy
A half-day executive seminar for leaders who craft corporate strategy

Leaders get it.
They know that a titanic mistake has been to focus more on crafting strategy than implementing it. This is not a hard sell to leaders. The staggering failure to deliver on their strategy promises has led to strategy implementation becoming an integral part of business today. Too many leaders on too many occasions have been involved in too many failures. Something needs to change and it starts with the leaders. The seminar addresses what they must do and more importantly how they can do it by providing the framework, models and playbook.

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2) Signature Seminar:

Make Your Strategy Come Alive - What to do after you have crafted your Strategy
A one-day seminar for people who are in charge of making the strategy happen

Have you ever invested the time to craft a strategy and then been disappointed with its results? Or have you been involved in a workshop to design a new plan and then got so caught up in the day-to-day business, the action items were forgotten? Or have you been part of a project that, despite everyone’s best efforts, did not deliver the desired results? Most leaders have, as research shows:

“9 out of 10 companies fail to implement strategy successfully.”

- Bridges' 10 years of research

This highly engaging and enriching one-day seminar, based on the international bestselling book Bricks to Bridges Make Your Strategy Come Alive, addresses the challenge of implementing strategy. Starting where most seminars end, it explains what to do after you have crafted your strategy. It’s packed with what works and what to avoid, plus the latest thinking in the field and a framework to guide you on your implementation journey.

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3) Master Class:

Mastering Implementation: Building Your Implementation Plan
A three-day workshop for people responsible for creating and executing the implementation plan

An exciting, intricate, hands-on master class over three full-on days for people who are responsible for building and delivering the strategy implementation plan and want to excel in execution. Initiated by our clients requests, the workshop recognizes that every organization is different and every strategy implementation is unique. Although two organizations may have similar strategies the implementations are never the same. The challenge that follows crafting a strategy is to work out how to execute it. After all, it is not strategy that delivers revenue but its implementation.

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4) Banking Seminar:

Operational Excellence for the Banking Industry: Why Wouldn’t You Do It?

Banks are notoriously bad at managing operations. Fortunately this is a well kept global secret and most customers are not aware of the number of mistakes made, funds lost or time taken to complete transactions. This one-day, interactive, inspiring and informative workshop recognizes that there has never been a more important time to improve the way we operate, to be more competitive and to improve the global perspective of banks.

The workshop focuses on providing a framework to guide you through the implementation of operational excellence. It identifies the main steps, shares examples from other banks (both what works and what to avoid) and demonstrates how OPEX delivers the dollars to the bottom line, through cost savings and increase business.

To launch OPEX in a bank the first key step is to create initial impact by launching cross-functional redesign projects to solve key visible problems, e.g. account opening that encapsulate the customer end-to-end experience. The second-prong is to imbue quality into the bank’s DNA.

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Bridges Keynotes

1) Make Your Strategy Come Alive

Most strategy implementation efforts don’t work; they fade out along the way and fail to deliver. Overwhelmingly, this is because most leaders underestimate the challenge, effort and commitment involved in executing strategy.

“9 out of 10 companies fail to successfully implement their strategy to achieve the desired results.”

- Bridges' 10 years of research

Making Your Strategy Come Alive is a straight-talking, highly engaging, no-nonsense presentation that will be invaluable to any company that truly wants to make implementation work.

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2) Execution Leadership: How Leaders Excel in Execution

Based on Bridges latest research and our new book the keynote recognizes that leaders get it. They understand that a past mistake has been to focus more on crafting a strategy than implementing it. The question leaders are now asking is, "What do we need to do differently?" This entertaining keynote focuses on the actions leaders must take to execute their strategy and is packed with implementation stories.

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