Turn Strategy into Results with Initiatives and Cadence

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]The third and the final mistake I want to share is implementation.

[00:00:05]High-performing teams and organizations, they're effective not just in thinking critically and strategically, and not just coming up with implementable strategic plans. They're effective in translating the plan into results.

[00:00:23]Which means they find a way to track their progress.

[00:00:29]They measure their success on a daily, on a weekly, at least on a quarterly basis.

[00:00:36]Organizations that don't do that, what happens?

[00:00:39]They think about the strategic plan they did, let's say, a year ago when they are planning to have another retreat.

[00:00:50]Or they may ask, "Okay, where is our strategic plan?

[00:00:56]What What have we done based on that strategic plan?"

[00:01:02]Down the road, like 6 months, or when they prepare for the next strategic plan.

[00:01:08]However, those high-performing teams and organizations, they don't allow that to happen.

[00:01:16]Two things I want to suggest how they do it. The first one is they come up with initiatives.

[00:01:22]This going to help them overcome one important challenge that a lot of organizations have.

[00:01:28]Think about it. An organization, a team, they are already busy. Their plate is already full.

[00:01:36]And they don't have time, energy, and resources to add up additional responsibilities to translate the strategic plan into results.

[00:01:46]In most cases, the strategic plan going to be set aside, and it may eat dust on a shelf.

[00:01:54]But these a teams and organizations, they come up with initiatives, a few initiatives. And then what they do is they assign people.

[00:02:04]And then they have meetings. It could be every week or every 2 weeks or it could be every month or every quarter, depending on the project.

[00:02:18]And the strategic planning team that leads the strategic planning process delegates reports from these leaders of these initiatives.

[00:02:30]If something is not going the way it's planned, they make changes.

[00:02:34]They adopt.

[00:02:36]If things are going right, great.