Not all change initiatives are created equal. At Conner Partners focus is on the changes that will transform your business—changes such as redefining customer relations, driving growth and consolidation, launching new products, integrating mergers and acquisitions, driving digital transformation, and much more. Conner Partners goes beyond mere installation of strategic change. For nearly five decades, we’ve been recognized as the experts in helping leaders and implementation teams fully realize promised outcomes.
We work with our clients to make strategic change happen through three service offerings:
Your biggest challenge to successful execution isn’t that your strategies will fail outright. It’s that they will be only partially or superficially implemented and the intended results will never fully materialize. Every time executives announce an important change that fails to meet its stated objectives, they face two significant challenges ; critical problems or opportunities aren’t addressed, and people’s trust and belief in leadership is eroded.
Our clients choose Conner Partners because our exclusive focus on Strategy Execution provides deep expertise, insight, and wisdom.
Change Implementation Planning (CIP)
Our team works with you and your teams to develop a comprehensive risk profile for your strategic initiatives and highlight the areas of greatest concern. We then work with you and your teams to alleviate those risks in order to achieve realization. We can help assess and address risk for an individual initiative, a portfolio of change initiatives, or your overall capability for change execution.
Advising Senior Leaders on Strategy Execution Challenges
Our senior consultants average more than 20 years of experience in executing strategic change. We pair executives leading change efforts in your organization with seasoned professionals from our firm who understand the realities of orchestrating major change endeavors. Our passion is sharing what we have learned, helping you replicate patterns of change success, and delivering on the full promise of your change initiatives.
When it comes to executing major strategic change, people come to us for one of two reasons: They’ve already tried to implement significant strategic initiatives with little or no success, or they are preparing to do so and recognize how challenging it will be. Whatever your strategy execution challenges, we are able to support you through a tailored application of the Conner Partners Approach. Nearly five decades of research and client applications provide the needed guidance for bringing together the mindset, methodology, terminology, tools, and skills to guide you to a successful outcome.
Intervening in Initiatives That Are Stuck
Every initiative gets stuck at some point. Even the best leaders hit roadblocks, lose momentum, or find themselves unable to move an initiative forward. We offer a variety of interventions that uncover the cause(s) and quickly provide remedies for your stuck projects.
Executing Strategic Initiatives Jointly With Your Teams
We provide a team of highly-seasoned professionals who bring the right mix of expertise to support your organization and its unique challenges. Our team works with your team to plan, execute, and realize the expected business outcomes from your strategic initiatives.
The skills required to successfully execute strategic change can be established and enhanced over time, creating a capability to out-execute your competition. The process of developing change execution competency is a challenging aspiration and demands a serious commitment. However, it offers the real promise of creating a sustainable source of competitive advantage for you and your team.
How do you replicate execution success?
Whether you’re looking for an executive briefing or are in need of building capability to execute a major strategic change, Conner Partners is prepared to support you. We will work with you to address immediate priorities as well as strengthen your long-term strategy execution competence. Our approach to building change proficiency combines the transfer of knowledge through leadership sessions and workshops with the guided application of that knowledge as we work side-by-side with you on your change initiative.
Transferring Strategy Execution Expertise—As we plan our engagement together, we will work with you to establish goals for building your change execution skills, with an eye toward decreasing the need for external assistance in the future.
Executive Sessions—Conner Partners’ deep experience navigating the challenges of strategy execution can be easily summarized for senior officers. We will work with your leaders to help them better understand the dynamics of successfully implementing strategic change and their role in guiding such an effort.
Capability-Building Workshops—We conduct workshops at all levels of your organization, from senior executives through business leaders, change agents, middle management, and front-line employees. We tailor each workshop to your organization, the change that you are executing, and the participants themselves. We support capability-building workshops with 1:1 and/or group coaching and advising. We can also provide a helpline when appropriate.
Application Workshops—As you move through the change process, application workshops provide key members of your organization with the opportunity to develop specific skills to support progress toward realization. Among the application workshops that may be a part of your change initiative are ones that help establish intent clarity, build a successful change portfolio, enroll the organization in the change, and plan the transitions that are critical to initiative success. Triage-type workshops are employed if your initiative loses the needed momentum or becomes stuck. a variety of interventions that uncover the cause(s) and quickly provide remedies for your stuck projects. Triage-type workshops are employed if your initiative loses the needed momentum or becomes stuck. We employ a variety of interventions in these triage workshops that uncover the cause(s) and quickly provide remedies for your stuck projects.
We provide a team of highly-seasoned professionals who bring the right mix of expertise to support your organization and its unique challenges. Our team works with your team to plan, execute, and realize the expected business outcomes from your strategic initiatives.
Execution success is at the heart of everything we do.
We are dedicated to helping you achieve the expected value and intended outcomes of your change endeavors by fostering:
Every plan we help facilitate, every action we advise you to take, and every intervention in the execution of an important change is intended to foster understanding, commitment, and alignment.