Goal Alignment

Meeting your performance objectives is highly dependent upon the seamless execution of your strategy.  We find that in many organizations, important partnerships and key projects are not always aligned with the organization’s strategy.  Major Oak’s simple, straightforward Goal Alignment methodology compares and contrasts your intended strategy with the perceptions and plans of your key internal and external partners.  In a confidential manner, we assess stakeholders’ awareness and understanding of your initiatives. Typically short in duration, this exercise efficiently aligns goals across the organization, saving our clients months of potentially misguided effort.  To demonstrate the benefits of this service, here are key stakeholder insights from an actual project: 

Are there any obstacles, issues or risks to overcome to meet the project goals?
Communication was clearly the number one risk of all interviewees*

Our Goal Alignment expertise:

• Facilitates open discussion that reveals and addresses stakeholder thoughts and concerns
• Educates the management and staff of the organization and the project team
• Assesses the organization’s perception of the strategy
• Uncovers risks and opportunities for mitigating them
• Eliminates time wasted executing ill-informed strategies based on misperceptions and lack of understanding/awareness