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We support
senior leadership teams
to execute strategy at pace.
The problem
80%
of employees have no clear line of sight between their tasks and corporate goals
70%
of employees couldn't correctly identify their corporate strategy
45%
of middle managers couldn't name one of their company's top five priorities
'How Strategy Can Fuel Or Frustrate Your Big Data Initiatives', Brent Dykes, 2016
400 global CEOs found that executional excellence was the number one challenge facing corporate leaders…heading a list of some 80 issues, including innovation, geopolitical instability, and top-line growth.
Harvard Business Review, 2015
the #1 issue that causes delays, implementation failures in general, employee angst, and customer ire is failures of cross-functional communication and integration.
Tom Peters, ‘The Excellence Dividend’, 2018
The business impact
Back-to-back ineffective meetings
Uncoordinated activity across business functions
Busy (often firefighting) teams stalling on strategic goals
Slow decision cycles: unclear where decisions sit, so they get escalated
Strategy warps as it cascades with lack of alignment and confusion on priorities
What we do
Albany Peak is a boutique strategy execution consultancy. We support and partner with SLTs to embed high performing behaviours and systems in the business, enabling them to execute strategy at pace. Cohesive and collaborative SLTs are the key to unlocking value creation: both in their integration of business functions, but also how they lead their own teams.
Through partnering with SLTs, our approach leads to a high trust environment, with high alignment and high autonomy through the business. This affords leaders at every level the time, space and freedom to think ‘up and out’ rather than just fighting the daily ‘down and in’ fires. The right people are focused on the right problems; meetings are fewer and more effective. Things get done: speed increases, costs decrease. It becomes a 'one team' business with clarity and alignment, made up of exceptional teams and leaders who move at pace, adapt, overcome challenges, and exploit opportunities.
STRATEGIC
CLARITY
ADAPTABLE EXECUTION
TEAMS & LEADERSHIP
SOCIAL
IDENTITY
How we do it
Partnering with SLTs, we focus on four key areas:
Gaining clarity and alignment on strategic goals and business activity
Developing high performing team and leadership behaviours
Cultivating a sense of 'us and we', grounded in purpose, legacy and belonging
Embedding a system of meetings and performance reviews to realign and focus activity
Our programmes combine F2F workshops, performance review sessions, coaching and unique team outdoor initiative experiences.
Who we work best with
You’re the CEO or MD of a business (or MNC Division) with up to c.6,000 employees. Your focus is on long-term sustainable performance over quarterly shareholder returns. You believe your people are the key to fulfilled clients who in turn drive revenue, profit and stakeholder value.
The following frustrations resonate with you:
Behaviours undermining performance
Finger-pointing and blame following failure
Silos prioritise Departments over the Company
Senior leaders struggling to fully drive results and unlock talent
Lack of transparency on position, performance and progress to drive effective decisions
Recent clients
How we work
SLTs & Cascade
Change is best driven from the top. Initially, we work exclusively with the SLT. As a second phase, we then assist in cascading the methodology one or two levels down the business. It’s here, in the engine room of the business, we see real traction takes place and momentum is built. These teams challenge up and implement down.
'Wedge' approach
We partner with clients over a 12-18 month term to ensure behaviours are embedded, and a tangible ROI achieved. Engagement is high early, and then decreases as ownership of the methodology moves to the SLT. We are not a ‘one and done’ workshop provider. We embed capability over time, while guarding against your dependency on us.
Proactive implementation
We work with businesses serious about improving performance. This is an investment in time beyond the programmed days and requires commitment from the whole SLT for successful implementation: they must be aware, and buy-in to the fact, that the programme will likely involve behavioural change and difficult decisions.