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Executing in uncertain times

How to avoid post-pandemic drift in your organization

No one could have predicted the bold and dramatic recoveries organizations made to sustain business continuity during COVID-19. Looking back, the pace and magnitude of change is truly remarkable and proof of what can be done when execution barriers within companies are removed.

As we approach the tail end of the crisis, organizations that can anchor those success factors will be less likely to drift back into old “can’t do” practices.

Join Smith Business Insight and Queen’s Executive Education for this free 60-minute webinar, May 7 at 1 p.m. (EDT). You’ll gain an understanding of how organizations swept away barriers in order to meet the challenge of COVID-19, and the steps you can take to successfully execute goals and priorities within your team.

Featuring Kathryn Brohman, Smith management information systems professor and co-author of SHIFT: A New Mindset for Sustainable Execution.

 

Participants will learn: 

• Common barriers to execution and how they impede organizational progress

• Steps you can take to remove these barriers

• What organizations did differently during the pandemic to get things done (and why it worked)

• How to focus your company’s strategy in times of uncertainty

• The different execution levers and how to use them

• Ways to manage performance that motivate your team to go beyond the minimum required

 

Following the presentation, we’ll have time for a Q&A with our speaker.

Session Leader

Dr. Kathryn Brohman

Program Director (Master of Digital Product Management), Associate Professor & E. Marie Shantz Fellow of Digital Technology

Kathryn Brohman is an associate professor at Smith School of Business and an expert on digital transformation and strategy execution. She has co-authored several books including, SHIFT: A New Mindset for Sustainable Execution, which presents results from her work with over 750 organizations and tackles the classic tension between innovation and lights-on, doors-open organizational practices. She has pioneered programs in strategy execution and digital transformation across MBA and Executive programs.