8 Strategy Questions You Should Ask Yourself
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Strategy is about knowing what questions to ask
Over the years we’ve shared how important it is for leaders to mobilize a winning culture in order to boost the productivity levels in their teams. Every quarter we sit down with a dozen of leaders and entrepreneurs to reflect on what’s working and not working when seeking to build their digital transformation initiatives to increase performance velocity. This process starts with asking tough questions to address the current situation.
In order to be more creative at building you digital strategy — we identified 8 questions to help you as a strategy leader increase your workforce performance. We believe these questions can often be an easy-miss during the current COVID situation.
In this post, you’ll learn some insightful questions asked with our current and future strategy leaders representing different backgrounds and industries — we hope these questions will help you gain personal insights into what to ask your own CEO about their intent for the business.
8 Questions to Ask Yourself
1. Are we investing in the right technologies? You will need to know what problem or inefficiency do you want the new technology to solve.
2. How can we become more adaptable to change? You will need to seek talent with Soft skills and establish an Agile environment full of opportunities such as games or simulations to gain remarkable experience in problem solving and adapting to change.
3. Are we secure? You will need to become a data advocate by education employees about data risks and make sure your workforce knows basic security best practices, such as how to identify a phishing scam and not to open links and attachments from unfamiliar email senders.
4. Does the culture promote employee well-being by improving their mental and physical health? Culture is everything and you will need to foster a culture by redesigning performance management in a way that motivates employees; allowing for greater flexibility, such as the option to work remotely; and offering benefits that support healthy lifestyles and choices.
5. How can we better attract, recruit, and retain talent? You will need to set yourself and your team apart by emphasizing the positive aspects of the job. These might include unique benefits, learning paths, the ability to work remotely, location, or company culture.
6. What emerging trend will have the highest impact, and how can we build effective strategy? You will need to be a Sprinter with Bold ambitions by looking down the road and anticipate which trends, technological developments and other disruptive factors will influence the business and respond effectively.
7. Are we providing employees with the tools they need to be productive? You will need to improve productivity by seeking tools to simplify the user experience.
8. How can we gain an edge on the competition? You will need to personalize the connection with your customers in an authentic way to reinforce your company brand by being accountable first and taking a stand on issues bigger than the company itself.
Remember
Change is a mindset. Culture can mean many things too many people, but one thing is very clear when it comes to culture in any organization. It comes from the top. Which is why we advise our CEOs to create a process for the executive team to ask tough questions about the company strategy — but first it starts with asking yourself the tough questions.
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