Tools · Strategy Execution

Translate Strategy to Impact

Turn one strategic goal or area of focus into an outcome statement, a process and outcome metric, and a place in the implementation sequence

A strategic plan states intent. The harder work is converting a goal, objective or area of focus into something a leadership team can run, measure and sequence over the life of the strategy. This tool takes one item from your plan and works it through five questions into a real outcome statement, pairs it with a process metric and an outcome metric, then suggests where it belongs in the journey: Year One, Year Two, or the later years. Work through your plan one item at a time and the implementation sequence begins to write itself.

What you get

• Five questions that separate activity language from outcome language, so 'we will strengthen' becomes a condition someone can actually observe
• A drafted outcome statement in a standard form: as a result of this work, who will do or experience what, and how we will know it is true
• A leading indicator (process metric) and a lagging indicator (outcome metric), with the role that collects each, the cadence, and whether a baseline exists
• A suggested sequencing tier drawn from prerequisite value, readiness, and the cost of waiting a year, with the reasoning written out for your team
• A one-page implementation note you can save as a PDF and bring to your leadership team, kept in your browser as you go