Do you believe you can execute your strategy?

Here are a set of questions that will help a team leader to have better success rates in preparing, planning and accomplishing a set of strategic objectives to execute your strategy.  By developing a greater awareness as to how people are motivated, leaders and managers can increase the productivity of their team by their own personal commitment to get work done effectively and efficiently.

1. What is my preferred outcome?
   1. What is my definition of success, in the future, given the BIG goals of the organization?
   2. Are the assumptions about getting to my outcome rationale?
   3. Do I know what the measure of success Is and what it Is not for clarity?
   4. What are the right goals for my area of responsibility?
2. Why do I want it?
   1. Maslow hierarchy of needs; where am I?
   2. Do I want to experience the company Vision for myself?
   3. How many of the core values am I actually doing or want to practice?
3. What do I need to believe to get the outcome?
   1. Do I have the right goals?
   2. Are my objectives are clear and measurable? (How do I know?)
   3. Are my values are aligned with the organization’s? (If not, can I still be successful?)
   4. Do I sponsor/support good group planning as a preface to a shared vision, buy-in and successful execution?
   5. Do I understand that people help support that which they help create?
   6. Do I have the right people (internal and external) available to do the work at the right time?
   7. Do I have a regular process for performance feedback and knowledge transfer to increase the rate of learning and make changes as we go along?
   8. What beliefs do I have that must be examined to get the outcome I want?
4. How committed am I?
   1. What are the priorities of my portfolio of work and personal life?
   2. On a scale of 1-10, how committed am I right now to achieve the objectives?
   3. What do I need to know, believe, feel or do to bring my commitment level up to at least a “9”?
5. What do I need to do to achieve the outcome?
   1. Can I define my current reality without distortion?  How do I know?
   2. What are the critical success factors—without which the outcome cannot be achieved?
   3. What is the gap between my current performance and that, which will be required to achieve the goal?  What needs to change?
   4. What capabilities/skills are required? Do I need to learn something new?
   5. What development opportunities do I need to support my direct reports with?
   6. What is one thing I am not doing now that I must do to achieve the goals?
6. How will I take action?
   1. How will I plan, define and manage the projects and initiatives required by the strategy?
   2. How will I measure my success and progress to achieve the goal?
   3. How will I share my success and the success of my team?
7. What is the right environment that I need to help create for others to achieve the outcome?
   1. How will I appreciate the success of others?
   2. How will I celebrate my own achievements?

By William Malek