What Is One Page Strategy?

All too often companies large and small have a problem with creating an environment that effectively has all members of the organization moving forward in a direction that can be described as “on the same page”. The reason is, in fact, quite simple.

There isn’t a same page for everyone to focus on!

The reality is many organizations build large, clumsy binders to define the strategic direction of the organization. Others believe that a budget is the strategic driver, some capture it in a collection of marketing plans, operational plans and spreadsheets across individual departments. And even more worrisome are the companies that don’t plan at all and achieve success or challenge based on the whims of the market!

If an organization wants to effectively get everyone on the same page as far as strategy, accountability and action is concerned, they must utilize a simple and clear process.

The strategy, accountability and action must be captured on a single page.

STRiDEstands for Strategy, Tactics, Roles and Responsibility, Innovation, Decisions and Evaluation. Capturing these details on One Page is the basic advantage that STRiDE has over the typical strategic planning process.

In order to build a strategy that the organization as a whole can get behind its important to ensure that the components flow from a long standing and foundational concept to something more focused on today!

The STRiDE Success process takes an organization through the critical components of:

• Single Value Statement
• Success Story
• Key Audience
• Dominant Market
• Success Themes
• Core Competencies
• Red Flags
• Financial Outlook
• 12 Month STRiDES in
  • Growth
  • Operations
  • Finance
  • People
  • Risk
• 90 Day Themes for Execution

This may seem like a lot to capture in a page, but by walking through the process and capturing it on the clear and concise STRiDE One Pager you will have a tool that the entire organization can focus on and execute together.

The areas of STRiDE that are foundational are; the value statement, Success Story and Themes as well as the Dominant Market. Utilizing some of the recommended practices by authors like Jim Collins and Oren Harari, STRiDE encourages values, passion and precision in defining the pats of your organization that should live forever.

The areas of STRiDE that define the shorter term (think 5 years) are; the Key Audience, Core Competencies and Red Flags. STRiDE captures ideas from Brian Tracy, Les Hewitt and Jack Canfield to define how defining these areas with precision will enable a company to focus on the areas that will drive success, while avoiding the areas where a company can end up in a tail spin.

Lastly, leveraging the concepts of Verne Harnishand some pure experience with clients, STRiDE focuses the actions of the next 12 months in a well rounded cross section of the business. Led by defining Growth, but providing ample support in the areas of Operations, Finance, People and Risk provides a list of execution priorities that will drive a high powered and accountable organization.

To close, the key to getting the team on One-Page is to design it that way. Making the strategy over complex or defined in such silos as you may as well be running a number of different companies leads to consistent misalignment and complications.

Check out STRiDE and see how this simple one-page process can assist your organization today!