Business Strategy Expectations vs Reality

When creating a business strategy, considering expectations against reality can be challenging. The management team is tasked with integrating all processes of the business, aligning them with the goals of vision of the organization.

Getting employees on the same page can be difficult, especially if they don’t take the concept seriously. Due to multiple layers of management, many employees do not view their role as being a vital part of the organization, but rather as a placeholder to get things done. To further reinforce this mindset, about 90% of employees in an organization do not have clear objectives, do not understand them, or do not even know what they are. If this is the case, how will they know how well they are doing and how their role directly contributes?

How can HR and the management team overcome this perception? First, the management team must communicate the strategy throughout the organization and make teams accountable for their roles.

This can be achieved by:

• Creating easily accessible performance transparency at the corporate and individual level
• Eliminating multiple copies of the same report through the centralization of the data source
• Implement efficient reporting processes that indicate progress status and completion. All tasks and responsibilities must be clarified to build ownership and accountability
• Providing up-to-date performance reports that show the overall performance of the organization, with individual performance metrics of all strategy components

How SimpleStrata can help:

The biggest problems in many organizations revolve around efficiency, productivity, lack of strategy or execution, and improper employee management. SimpleStrata is designed to help management teams communicate strategy and performance management throughout the organization. Comprised of 4 modules, the program focuses on strategy execution, employee performance, project monitoring, and tasks & activity management. They can work together or individually depending on the department and need. The program monitors the execution and progress of your internal strategy, creating and linking components in a flexible way.

Employees are also able to report and view their KPIs progress to plan their efforts for achieving them. All projects can have set deliverables that will monitor their progress and completion, resources, and tasks. Finally, management will have a reliable tool to help individuals and teams track all tasks and activities, plan the execution, report on progress, and collaborate. Managers can individually or collective assign tasks, evaluate performance and provide instant feedback. Recognizing the diverse landscape of today’s organizations, SimpleStrata offers a bilingual solution as well. With a flexible configuration and multiple input channels, integration into your current infrastructure will be seamless.

A cost-effective option, SimpleStrata offers a set of value-added services to ensure maximum utilization of the system and encourage adoption by employees. We provide live training sessions, detailed user manuals, and video tutorials, and specific pricing that will meet individual needs for SME’s, Enterprise and Government organizations. Get your management team and employees to buy into the vision by defining a clear strategy, its execution, and the roles employees play to manage expectations appropriately and operate in real-time reality. For more information on SimpleStrata and how it can help your organization, contact an agent today.

Reformatting the perception