Strategic Agility in a turbulent market
This training is for leaders and experts who want to hold their course in fast-changing times and, when needed, change direction without losing focus. The GROW KATAMARÁN Framework combines proven goal-setting and execution methods, taking both hard and soft factors into account.
KATAMARÁN Framework
GROW's own methodologyGROW's own framework for holding a flexible strategic course in a turbulent market environment.
- Integrates proven, results-based methods such as OKR, 4DX and PowerScore
- Enables quick changes of direction without losing focus
- The senior leadership team applies it to its own organization
KATAMARÁN is GROW's own framework for holding a flexible strategic course in a turbulent market environment. Just as a catamaran's competitive edge comes from its twin-hull design, the framework integrates hard and soft aspects: it builds on results-based methods that have stood the test of the crises of recent decades, including the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) toolkit also used at Google, the 4DX principles for strategy execution, PowerScore, and proven agile and lean practices. The framework serves three things: focus, alignment and momentum. It enables quick changes of direction without losing focus, helps break the strategy down in a way that is relevant to lower levels, and provides strategic communication that does not trigger organizational resistance. Programs that use it are led by an OKR-certified organizational development consultant who researches the topic.
Related programs: Pit Stop: Strategic Realignment for Competitive Advantage · Holding Strategic Course in a VUCA World · Strategic Agility in a Turbulent Market
What is the program about?
A 1–2-day group training, in person or online, built on the GROW KATAMARÁN Framework; also available with Thod support.
The era of five-year plans is over. In today's market, the companies that can grow are the ones that change direction quickly without losing focus. What this takes is not yet another plan, but a framework that makes rapid changes of direction and holding course possible at the same time.
What you take away: an understanding of the difference between continuous renewal and radical transformation, and growing leadership agility; the use of OKR and 4DX tools, realistic and inspiring goal systems with relevant indicators; a better-aligned leadership team, a strategy cascaded through the levels and strategic communication that does not trigger resistance.
Who is the program for?
For leaders and experts who work on strategy. It is especially timely when the organization operates in a turbulent, unpredictable market environment and struggles to hold its strategic course.
When is it worth starting?
- a more flexible, agile approach is needed instead of traditional multi-year strategic planning
- leadership wants to introduce OKR, 4DX or similar goal-setting and execution tools, or make better use of them.
How we work
KATAMARÁN is built from methods that have stood the test of the crises of recent decades: OKR, which is also used at Google; 4DX for strategy execution; PowerScore; and proven agile and lean practices. Participants build the framework for their own organization, not for a sample case.
Participants become able to build this framework within their own organization. The result is more focused, better-aligned and more dynamic operations, with the strategic course held even in the stormiest times. The program is led by an OKR-certified organizational development consultant who researches the topic.
Program topics
- holding strategic course in a VUCA environment
- organizational resilience and antifragility
- crises and corporate visions in the 21st century
- the OKR and 4DX toolkit
- challenging goals, full commitment, bold results
- strategic alignment and operational synergies
- implementation, measurement, control: typical pitfalls
- seamless strategy communication.
Delivery
We weight the topics to fit the client organization's situation. On request, we accompany the program with the Thod learning support system, which keeps participants applying what they have learned between training days.
It is also worth starting if:
- cascading the strategy to lower levels and strategic communication have so far been cumbersome or met with resistance
- a better-aligned leadership team is the goal.
Methodological background: the program is built on the following methodology: KATAMARÁN Framework.
