Balancing strategic planning with daily team operations: Are you able to effectively manage both?
Striking a balance between strategic planning and daily operations is key to sustainable team success. Here's how to manage both effectively:
- Schedule regular strategy sessions separate from operational meetings to ensure both receive dedicated focus.
- Use project management tools to track daily tasks while keeping an eye on strategic milestones.
- Empower team members with clear roles and responsibilities, enabling them to handle operational tasks while you focus on strategy.
How do you maintain the balance between strategy and daily operations? Would love to hear your strategies.
Balancing strategic planning with daily team operations: Are you able to effectively manage both?
Striking a balance between strategic planning and daily operations is key to sustainable team success. Here's how to manage both effectively:
- Schedule regular strategy sessions separate from operational meetings to ensure both receive dedicated focus.
- Use project management tools to track daily tasks while keeping an eye on strategic milestones.
- Empower team members with clear roles and responsibilities, enabling them to handle operational tasks while you focus on strategy.
How do you maintain the balance between strategy and daily operations? Would love to hear your strategies.
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The goal of strategy is not to have a strategic document; it’s to achieve business results. According to the essential book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, one’s strategy is only as good as one’s execution. Leaders must be hands-on and intensively involved with three core interlinked processes: the people process, the strategy process and the operations process. Leaders must structure the year, the quarter, the week and the day to coordinate the three processes. Most important, however, is to recognize that leadership is the ability to get things done through others. Job one is building, developing and supporting a team that is capable and motivated to execute the strategy. Every day and without micromanagement.
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Having a well prepared back up person for you will ensure that you will be able to balance the plates throughout this challenging process. If you don´t have a back up person, use the tools you have, such as, daily meetings, asign people to take over some essential tasks, always making sure to foster a WELL CONTROLLED process as well.
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Como Diretor Executivo, sua missão é garantir que a estratégia da organização seja pautada no DNA de todos os envolvidos, entretanto, isso não é apenas a sua principal missão, mas sim de motivar e instruir seus outros líderes de áreas para entender perfeitamente como deve ser levado ao staff operacional com eficiência e produtividade. Como Líder principal, você deve estabelecer padrões juntamente com seus gestores e fazer com que a operação diária seja eficiente e produtiva, sendo capaz de atingir seus objetivos estratégicos. Você deve dar aos seus gestores capacitação, ferramentas e principalmente, processos robustos de gestão de operações, faça reuniões semanais com seus líderes e esteja preparado para ir ao GEMBA sempre que for preciso.
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Sim, é possível gerenciar planejamento estratégico e operações diárias de forma eficiente ao seguir estas práticas: 1) Defino prioridades claras, alocando tempo específico para tarefas estratégicas e operacionais. 2) Delego responsabilidades operacionais para a equipe, permitindo foco em decisões estratégicas. 3) Uso ferramentas de gestão para monitorar progresso e identificar desvios. 4) Faço check-ins regulares para alinhar estratégias com a execução diária. 5) Ajusto o planejamento com base no feedback operacional, garantindo que ambos os níveis se complementem. Equilíbrio vem da organização e comunicação eficaz.
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This is what I did when I was heading Operations - 1. Created a small team to achieve mid/long-term goals (strategic alignment) 2. This team focused on continuous improvement based on NPS data 3. The rest of the team focused on day-to-day operations and escalations 4. There were a few common KPIs for both teams so they collaborated constructively 5. I focused more on streamlining Operations along with the strategic team 6. SOPs and budgets ensured that the Operations team handled the daily tasks and decisions on its own 7. Regular reviews of both teams ensured alignment toward long-term goals. This also helped me understand the gaps that we need to address to streamline daily operations
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