From Tactical to Strategic: Making the Shift – Leadership Skills Video

“BE MORE STRATEGIC.” BUT WHAT DOES THAT ACTUALLY MEAN?

It’s something I often hear when a sponsor is giving feedback to a leader in our Ascent: Executive Leadership Coaching sessions.

But while performance expectations might be clear, what being more strategic actually looks like often isn’t.

And it’s a growing leadership challenge.

DDI’s latest Global Leadership Forecast found that 38% of leaders identify setting strategy as one of their most important development priorities for the next three years.

The challenge is that the day-to-day demands of leadership rarely slow down.

As I often say, the down pull of the tactical is always stronger than the uplift of the strategic.

So how do we help leaders make that shift?

In this video, I explore three practical ways to become more strategic:

1. Developing a shared understanding of strategy.
2. Creating alignment around the choices being made.
3. Making time to step back and consider the bigger picture. Putting it in your diary!

Because strategy isn’t simply about doing more. It’s about making deliberate choices about where we’re going, how we’ll get there, what we need to stop doing along the way and the paths we want to go down.

IN YOUR NEXT LEADERSHIP CONVERSATION: What are we choosing to do and, just as importantly, what are we choosing not to do?

If helping your leaders step out of the weeds and contribute more strategically is a priority, we’d love to explore what that could look like for your leaders and across your organisation.

LET’S TALK LEADERSHIP

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