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Organisations face a constant stream of opportunities for growth. A proactive approach to improvement keeps you a step ahead and unlocks your organisation's full potential.

1. Step 1

   Absorb current strategy and tactics

   Understand the organisation's current strategy and tactical approach, as described in its documentation and by the sponsors of the engagement.

   Identify the key actor cohort that puts the strategy into practice.

2. Step 2

   Interview the key actor cohort

   Interview the small number of pivotal people who set strategy and provide the tactical cohesion to implement it across the organisation's silos.

   Use one-on-one, in-confidence conversations to surface previously unspoken truths about strategic limits and tactical opportunities.

3. Step 3

   Triangulate, drawing on 46 years' experience

   Triangulate what key actors say to synthesise the organisation's strategic and tactical canons: its current rules and beliefs, and therefore its opportunities for targeted improvement.

   Draw in-confidence parallels with extensive consulting experience, and begin testing findings with key actors to drive improvement.

4. Step 4

   Findings: commend, affirm, recommend

   Commend what the organisation is doing well.

   Affirm the opportunities already being addressed, with fine-tuning.

   Recommend priorities for substantial opportunities not yet being addressed.

5. Step 5

   Plan the next steps

   Facilitate leadership action planning to refocus strategy and rewire tactical execution around the opportunities.

   Help the executive re-energise the key actor cohort and reset its performance indicators for greater value.