Business Execution Curriculum Outline
Foundations for Business Execution
Overview/Description
Have you ever sat in a meeting where your boss described a new initiative that was going to transform your business unit, only to see the initiative fizzle and die a few weeks later? Do you have big plans and long-term goals that never come to pass because you get so bogged down with day-to-day activities? When management announces new plans to revolutionize productivity in your organization, do your colleagues roll their eyes because they know things will never really change? Why don't new initiatives get off the ground? Why don't long terms goals get met? Why do things stay the same in business, even when change is critical to an organization's success? The answer lies in the art of business execution. Business execution is about achieving results. It's about turning ideas into actions and dreams into reality. It's not a process or a formula, but a state of being that will permeate and transform your entire organization. This course will provide you with the basic information you need to create an execution culture in your organization. In one lesson, you'll examine execution cultures to uncover what execution is and what it is not. You'll explore personal accountability and energy, two inherently important parts of an execution culture. Finally, you'll see how business execution equips organizations to handle change. In another lesson, you'll see how an execution culture will help your organization deliver value to your customers and achieve operational excellence.
Target Audience
Mid-to-upper level management and executives wanting to familiarize themselves with the principles of Business Execution and the development of an execution culture
Expected Duration
7.0 hours
Lesson Objectives:
Execution Basics
Recognize the benefits of adopting an execution culture in today's business environment. Associate key characteristics of an execution culture with examples. Apply actions that help create an execution culture when presented with examples. Apply the principles of personal accountability when presented with scenarios. Apply the strategies for being world class to produce outcomes conducive to an execution culture when presented with a scenario. Match the key characteristics that position an execution culture to deal with change with examples. The Execution Difference
Recognize the benefits an execution culture provides to customers. Match the three value disciplines with examples. Determine which behavior will effectively improve delivery of superior value in a given scenario. Apply the strategies for attaining optimal value to a scenario. Apply the principles for executing winning strategies when presented with a scenario. Back to ListCreating a Business Execution Culture
Overview/Description
In today's fast-paced, high tech world, change comes more rapidly than ever before. Businesses must be in a state of constant evolution and continuous improvement just to keep up. An organization's ability to execute is paramount to its survival. After all, how can a company be constantly evolving and improving if no one within the organization is getting anything done? In companies that execute well, the principles of business execution permeate the entire organization and become part of the company's culture. But how does an execution culture come to be? A business execution culture starts with an organization's leaders and trickles down to virtually every level of the company. This course contains powerful information to help you create an execution culture in your organization. Whether you're a senior manager or the manager of a small business unit, you can do your part to create an execution culture in your company. One lesson explores the critical role leaders play in creating an execution culture. You'll learn about ways to turn your visions and ideas into actions. Do you have the right team in place to execute your ideas? You'll learn about assessing talent in both your existing team members and in potential new hires. Will the same team still be right one year from now? What happens if one of your team members isn't thriving in the new execution culture? What if a team member simply needs a little help to execute better? Coaching for Execution will provide valuable information to ensure your team is executing to its fullest potential. Once you have the right team in place and they are executing ideas and accomplishing great things, then what? You'll explore important information to help you lead your winning team. Larry Bossidy, author of Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, states that creating an execution culture is hard, but losing it is easy. Once you've created an execution culture, how will you keep from losing it? How can you ensure that business execution does not become just another flavor of the month fads that lasts a few months then disappears? Another lesson explores effective communication styles that will help your execution culture flourish. You'll learn how to ask the right questions while avoiding the wrong questions. Inflated numbers, unrealistic projections and outrageous stretch goals have no place in an execution culture. You'll explore the importance of facing both the positive and negative aspects of reality as they pertain to your business. Finally, in an execution culture, rewards are tied to performance. You'll learn how to effectively reward your team for executing well.
Target Audience
Mid-to-upper level management and executives wanting to familiarize themselves with the principles of Business Execution and the development of an execution culture
Expected Duration
8.0 hours
Lesson Objectives:
Leading for Business Execution
Recognize the importance of the leader's role in creating and maintaining an execution culture. Apply the five steps for effective business execution when presented with a scenario. Apply the critical questions for talent assessment in a given scenario. Evaluate coaching strategies and make recommendations to improve outcomes in a given scenario. Apply the principles for leading a winning team when presented with a scenario. Framework for Cultural Change
Recognize the key benefits an organization is likely to realize when business execution is ingrained into its culture. Discern between communication that supports an execution culture and communication that does not. Recognize behaviors that help reveal reality and those that do not when presented with examples. Apply the strategies for revealing reality during site visits in a given scenario. Assess the effectiveness of reward systems in a given scenario and recommend appropriate changes. Back to ListBusiness Execution in Action
Overview/Description
The best operational strategies in the world are not worth the paper they are written on if they are not carried out. The same holds true for the principles of business execution. The principles of business execution are worthless to an organization if they exist only in the heads of its corporate executives, but are never acted upon. This course will assist you in the process of executing business execution in your organization. All organizations share three common key processes: the people process, the strategy process, and the operations process. One lesson will explore ways to employ the principles of business execution to improve and streamline these processes. All too often, organizations think of the people process, the strategy process, and the operations process as three distinct and separate entities, when in fact, they are closely and critically interrelated. Have you ever been in a situation where it felt like the left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing? Have you ever completed a project only to find out the actions of another team in your organization rendered your work obsolete? If only you'd known what they were doing. You'll explore ways to execute to ensure synchronicity in your organization. Another lesson explores ways to apply business execution principles to take your organization to the next level and beyond.
Target Audience
Mid-to-upper level management and executives wanting to familiarize themselves with the principles of Business Execution and the development of an execution culture
Expected Duration
5.0 hours
Lesson Objectives:
Business Execution and Business Processes
Identify the key advantages of business execution on the people, strategy, and operations processes of an organization. Interpret data on a leadership assessment survey when given an example. Match an employee's scores on the execution evaluation profile to the appropriate performance classification. Evaluate a strategy summary document and assess its strengths and deficiencies in a given scenario. Apply the key principles for executing operations in a given scenario. The Results of Effective Business Execution
Recognize the benefits of effective execution. Apply the actions that empower in a given scenario. Identify examples of skills, knowledge, and talent. Apply the guidelines for evaluating talent in a given scenario. Apply the steps for business execution maintenance, in a given scenario. Recognize the outcomes and possibilities available to organizations who practice business execution. Back to ListBusiness Execution Simulation
Overview/Description
You were recently hired by V&A Beverages (a bottler and distributor of spring water and carbonated soft drinks) to serve as head of distribution for East Coast operations. Having come from a company steeped in business-execution strategies, you soon discover that V&A's corporate culture is mired in bureaucracy and suffering from a severe lack of planning and follow-through. Bold initiatives come and go with little effect, leaving employees discouraged and performance lagging. This simulation is based on the SkillSoft series Business Execution and contains links to the following courses: LEAD0151 and LEAD0153.
Target Audience
Mid-to-upper-level management and executives wanting to familiarize themselves with the principles of business execution and the development of an execution culture.
Expected Duration
0.5 hours
Lesson Objectives:
Business Execution Simulation
Creating an empowered workforce. Being an involved leader. Running a reality-based business. Creating an action-oriented culture. Assessing performance. Reviewing a strategy proposal. Back to List
Business Execution
Effective business execution is the key to any company’s success. In order to be effective, everyone must understand the
three main processes – people, strategy and operations – of business execution.
Have you ever worked for a company that promised big changes but never seemed to follow through? Have you ever completed a
project only to find out another co-worker rendered your work obsolete? How can you avoid this lack of collaboration and
communication? Learn more about the three processes of business execution and how to ensure that everyone in your company
works in-sync with each other with CBT Direct’s online courses in Business Execution.
The importance of continuous business execution in your company is paramount in today’s ever-changing world. How can you
communicate and implement a business execution culture in your business? With CBT Direct’s online courses, discover
ways to turn your visions and ideas into actions and how to employ the right people to get the job done. Learn
effective communication styles to help your execution culture flourish, and then put your skills to the test with an
online training business execution simulation.
CBT Direct’s online courses in business execution will help you to create the right business execution culture in your
company and teach your team how to work together toward your company’s future!
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Who Benefits from CBT Direct’s Online Training Course on Business
Execution
Mid-to-upper level management and executives wanting to familiarize themselves with the principles of Business Execution.
What Will Professionals Learn from CBT Direct’s Online Training Course on Business Execution?
This course will provide you with the basic information you need to create an execution culture in your organization.
You'll examine execution cultures to uncover what execution is and what it is not. You'll explore personal accountability
and energy, two inherently important parts of an execution culture. Finally, you'll see how business execution equips
organizations to handle change.
This course contains powerful information to help you create an execution culture in your organization. Whether you're a
senior manager or the manager of a small business unit, you can do your part to create an execution culture in your company.
You'll learn about ways to turn your visions and ideas into actions. Do you have the right team in place to execute your ideas?
You'll learn about assessing talent in both your existing team members and in potential new hires.
This course will assist you in the process of executing business execution in your organization. All organizations share three
common key processes: the people process, the strategy process, and the operations process. You will explore ways to employ the
principles of business execution to improve and streamline these processes.
Business Execution
