Execution & Organisation Management
Turn plans into performance. Design effective structures, rhythms and priorities that keep teams aligned, accountable and focused on what matters most.
Video Briefs
Each Video Brief delivers a sharp, practical insight in under 15 minutes - designed to shift your thinking and sharpen your leadership. These focused sessions tackle real-world challenges across themes like mindset, strategy, communication and risk. Every brief includes a downloadable takeaway with clear actions, frameworks or reflection prompts - so you can apply what you’ve learned immediately.
High Impact Organisations excel through strategic focus, rapid execution, clear alignment, and accountable leadership. Learn essential steps to build an organisation that consistently delivers superior results, adapts swiftly, and maintains momentum over time.
Most teams work hard, but very few perform at a consistently high level. High performance teams are built through clear purpose, shared commitment, psychological safety, strong feedback loops and disciplined execution. This video briefing explores what truly separates average teams from outstanding ones and outlines nine essential elements that support sustained team success. Whether you're forming a new team or lifting the capability of an existing one, this briefing will help you lead with clarity and build the conditions for high impact performance.
Every high-performing organisation runs on rhythm. Not the rhythm of ad-hoc meetings or reactive firefighting - but a deliberate, structured cadence of decisions, actions and alignment that keeps strategy moving forward. This video briefing explores how to master organisational operating rhythms, helping leaders turn ambition into execution through clarity, consistency and discipline. Whether you're leading a function, a team or an enterprise, this is the infrastructure that makes performance sustainable.
Hardwire the three disciplines that transform teams and organisations.
Get out of the meeting room - learn how firsthand observation unlocks real insight, faster decisions and better leadership.
Clarify the real differences - and why leadership is more about outcomes than titles.
Shift your focus from operational noise to strategic impact - and learn why it’s the difference between managing and leading.
Build trust, connection and accountability - no matter where your team sits on the map.
Free up your time and build team capability by mastering the art of clear, confident delegation.
Build stronger relationships with senior leaders by anticipating needs, communicating clearly and influencing with credibility.
Courses
High Impact Academy courses are designed for real-world learning - fast, focused and built for impact. Each course includes short video lessons, downloadable resources, practical tools, a knowledge check and a certificate of completion. Whether you're building new skills or deepening your capability, our structured courses help you apply what matters, where it matters.
Learn how to align strategy with execution by designing an operating model that enhances efficiency, scalability, and business success. This course provides a structured approach to understanding, creating, and optimising operating models to ensure your organisation operates effectively.
This course will show you how to design and embed an operating rhythm that links your strategy to execution, aligns leadership around shared priorities and ensures that performance is tracked consistently. You’ll learn how to build the right meetings, reviews and check-ins - with the right people, at the right time, for the right purpose.
This course provides a practical and structured approach to resource planning, guiding you through the six-step resource planning process. You’ll learn how to assess current workforce capabilities, identify future resource needs, map skill gaps, and implement effective solutions - whether through redeployment, upskilling, or external hiring. By leveraging proven frameworks, templates, and best practices, you’ll be equipped to align workforce planning with strategic business goals.
This course will equip you with the principles, tools, and strategies to implement Visual Management effectively in your organisation. You’ll learn how to design impactful visual displays, integrate Visual Management into daily operations, and create a workplace where performance, progress, and problems are instantly visible.
This course will equip you with the principles, tools, and best practices for designing and implementing a Balanced Scorecard in your organisation. You’ll learn how to define meaningful metrics, track performance, and establish a structured review process that ensures accountability and results.
This course provides a step-by-step approach to developing a structured OGSM (Objectives, Goals, Strategies, Measures) framework. You’ll learn how to set clear objectives, define measurable goals, develop actionable strategies, and establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to track success. Whether you’re leading a corporate strategy, scaling a business, or looking to drive alignment across teams, this course equips you with the tools to implement OGSM effectively.
Learn how to align objectives, goals, strategies and measures using the OGSM framework to drive execution.
Identify, assess and manage risks with confidence - without getting lost in technical detail.
Discover the essential elements that create truly high performing ones - and learn how to build them into any team you lead.
Resources
Explore a curated library of high-impact resources designed to help you lead, think and work more effectively. From productivity tools and planning templates to leadership guides and executive slipsheets, every resource is built for clarity and action. Use them to solve problems faster, make smarter decisions and boost your personal and professional impact.
A practical, executive-level resource designed to help leaders prepare for and respond to business disruptions with clarity and control. It offers a proven framework for integrating continuity planning, crisis response and IT disaster recovery into your organisational strategy. Use it to safeguard operations, minimise downtime and protect critical assets in the face of unexpected events. Understand your executive responsibilities, define recovery priorities and implement best-practice approaches to build true organisational resilience.
An executive-level resource designed to help leaders define direction, align teams and drive results with clarity and confidence. It provides a structured framework for setting vision, formulating strategy and executing with discipline. Use it to sharpen your strategic focus, prioritise initiatives, and embed planning into your leadership rhythm. Understand your role in shaping long-term success, apply best-practice frameworks and lead strategic conversations with impact.
This guide helps you design leadership and organisational rhythms that drive clarity, momentum and results - from daily execution to quarterly alignment and annual reset. Learn how to embed discipline without rigidity, connect the right people at the right time and make every meeting count. Whether you're leading a team, a function or an entire organisation, your rhythm sets the tone for performance.
Talent Management for Executives is a practical, executive-level resource designed to help leaders strategically attract, retain, develop and manage talent. It outlines essential principles and actionable frameworks to align talent strategies with business objectives, strengthen your employer brand, boost engagement and build critical leadership capabilities. Use it to embed effective talent management practices across your organisation, improve performance, and create lasting competitive advantage through your most valuable asset - your people.
A practical, executive-level resource designed to help leaders build stronger, more cohesive and more accountable teams. It outlines the key elements that separate true teams from working groups, provides guidance on navigating team development stages and introduces a powerful framework to drive clarity, commitment and performance. Use it to lift engagement, align effort and unlock the collective potential of your team - one challenge, one conversation, one step at a time.
An executive-level resource designed to help leaders navigate uncertainty and make stronger strategic decisions. It outlines a clear, structured approach to identifying critical uncertainties, building future scenarios and stress-testing strategy against them. Use it to uncover blind spots, expand strategic thinking and equip your organisation to thrive - no matter what the future holds.
Dealing with Performance Issues helps leaders address problems early, fairly and effectively. It’s designed to give you a clear framework for diagnosing issues, having tough but constructive conversations and setting measurable expectations for improvement. Use this guide to protect team standards, maintain trust and build a culture where accountability and support go hand in hand. By acting quickly and focusing on behaviour, not personality, you can turn performance problems into progress and strengthen your team’s credibility and morale.
Managing Remote Teams helps leaders build trust, engagement and performance across distance. It’s designed to give you practical steps to set clear expectations, maintain consistent operating rhythms and keep people connected, motivated and included. Use this guide to lead with clarity and transparency, support wellbeing and create a strong team culture - no matter where your people are working.
Understand how to identify, assess and respond to risks at the leadership level.
Your first 100 days in a new leadership role set the foundation for long-term success. The 100-Day Plan for New Roles provides a structured framework to help you establish credibility, align with key stakeholders and drive early impact. Use it to set clear priorities, engage your team effectively and build momentum from day one.
Great leaders don’t just manage their time - they focus on what drives the greatest impact. The Leadership Prioritisation Matrix helps you evaluate tasks, decisions and projects based on urgency and strategic value so you can eliminate distractions, delegate effectively and maximise productivity. Use it to prioritise high-value work, align your focus with long-term goals and lead with greater clarity and efficiency.
High Impact Toolkit
A powerful collection of ready-to-use tools, templates and frameworks to solve business problems, shape strategy, drive performance and make smarter decisions - faster and with more impact.
The 100-Day Plan Template is a structured format designed to prioritise activities and focus areas on a single page, ensuring clarity and direction over a fixed period. With an easy-to-use layout, this template captures essential information in a clear and actionable format, helping individuals and teams stay focused on key objectives.
The ABCD Tool is a structured method for conducting team debriefs and capturing essential performance feedback to drive continuous improvement. It provides a simple yet effective framework for reflection, using four key categories.
The Activity Accountability Plan is a structured framework for clearly outlining the jobs that need to be done within a business program and defining the roles and responsibilities of individuals to ensure successful execution. Unlike a typical project plan, this approach places additional emphasis on role clarity and accountability alongside timeframe expectations.
The Benchmarking Assessment Template is a structured visual tool for comparing performance across peer organisations to identify gaps, best practices and improvement opportunities. Designed for business leaders and analysts, it simplifies complex comparative analysis through a concise format that highlights relative standing across key metrics and dimensions.
The Business Metrics Framework is a structured tool for defining, aligning and tracking business performance metrics that support transformation and improvement programs. It provides a clear method for specifying future state targets and performance indicators across areas such as customer, product, process and risk.
The Business Model Canvas (BMC) Template is a strategic management tool that visually maps out the nine essential components of a business model on a single page. Use it during the early stages of business planning, whether for a new venture or when refining an existing business model. It is particularly effective in strategic discussions, innovation workshops, and market pivot exercises, providing a clear, shared framework for stakeholders.
The Business Vision Framework provides a structured format for defining a corporate, program, or business unit vision, along with the essential components needed to achieve it, including mission, values, and objectives. Designed to focus creativity on the essence of the vision rather than its layout, this framework offers a strong starting point for teams working on vision development.
The Capability Gap Assessment Framework is a structured approach for analysing and presenting organisational capabilities in a clear and concise format. It enables business analysts to capture multiple dimensions of an organisation, assess existing capabilities, and outline improvement strategies to address capability gaps effectively.
The Initiative Prioritisation Map is a structured framework for evaluating and prioritising business improvement projects using a two-by-two matrix that assesses initiative value versus risk. This method enables organisations to categorise initiatives into logical treatment groups for decision-making.
The Operating Model Framework simplifies the process of visually representing the current or future state of a business, organisation, or function. Many struggle to create a clear, single-page operating model, and this template removes that challenge by providing a structured format with core components that can be easily modified and populated to suit specific needs.
The Operating Rhythm Framework provides a structured format for defining the forums and meetings essential for driving organisational objectives. A well-designed operating rhythm represents the routine cadence of a business, transformation program, or function, ensuring that governance, management, controls, and operational processes come together effectively to drive performance.
The Organisation Impact Assessment Template is a structured framework for evaluating the impact of a transformation program on an organisation, team, or function. It assesses the degree of impact across eight key dimensions, enabling users to define strategies and tactics to ensure a smooth and well-managed transition.
The Business Initiative Project Charter Template provides a clear, one-page view of the key elements of a business analysis or improvement initiative. Use it at the beginning of a project to define scope, objectives, and required work. This template ensures alignment among project team members, facilitates stakeholder engagement, and helps secure buy-in from project sponsors.
The Project Evaluation Framework is a structured, proven template for specifying and assessing business improvement initiatives within a broader transformation program or portfolio. It provides a concise and consistent structure for capturing key project information to facilitate prioritisation, investment decisions, and planning.
The Project Issues Register is a proven and concise template for capturing, tracking, and reporting project issues encountered during the delivery of a business initiative. It enables project leaders and team members to document key issues impacting project objectives, activities, and deliverables in a structured manner.
The Project Risk Register is a proven and concise template for capturing, tracking, and reporting risks that may impact the successful delivery of a business initiative. It enables project leaders and team members to document key risks, assess their potential impact, and develop mitigation strategies to keep projects on track.
The Project Status Report Template is a concise and structured format for providing regular updates to sponsors and stakeholders on business analysis, improvement, or transformation initiatives. It ensures that key information - including scope, activities, deliverables, risks, issues, and progress - is communicated clearly and effectively.
The RACI Matrix is a structured tool for clarifying roles, responsibilities, and workload distribution across teams and functions. It ensures that key activities are clearly assigned, identifying who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed for each task or function. Use it to eliminate inefficiencies, optimise workload allocation, and clarify team responsibilities.
The Resource Management Plan Template is a structured and customisable tool for tracking and managing project resources allocated to a business transformation program or business improvement initiative. It provides visibility over resource allocation, ensuring that the right skills, roles, and personnel are in place throughout the project’s duration.
The Transformation Business Case Template is a comprehensive framework for building clear, compelling business cases that secure executive endorsement and guide investment decisions. It brings structure and discipline to the case development process, ensuring proposals are grounded in strategic alignment, measurable benefits and delivery feasibility.
The Transformation Map Template is a visual framework for mapping the key initiatives required to achieve a business transformation program. It typically positions the current state at the bottom left and the future state at the top right, with initiatives structured as work packages that bridge the gap toward the desired operating model, corporate vision, or strategy.
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