Using frameworks strategically is the foundation of strategic excellence. You can use them to turbocharge your strategic thinking, for managing staff, planning, delegating, or presenting. But you can’t just “plug and play.”
Today I’m encouraging you to lift your game in using McKinsey-style frameworks for your strategic projects. Use them to turbocharge your work when doing your own strategic thinking, managing staff, planning, delegating or presenting.
Why frameworks are fabulous:
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Executives and Board members appreciate one-pagers as they are usually big picture strategic thinkers, rather than detail-oriented.
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Executives and board members love to see things in a graphical framework.
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90% of information processed by the brain is visual.
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It is faster to populate frameworks when you’re working on strategic projects, rather than starting with a blank page. One of the first things I was taught when I worked for McKinsey was to turn my page sideways, use landscape mode and start drawing.
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3 tips to use frameworks:
- Collect your own frameworks – Whenever you find a framework you like, add it to your collection so you have them to hand. You can also join the Turbocharge Hub – every month you’ll get a brand new playbook full of editable frameworks for you to use. There are already 10 playbooks published in the Turbocharge Hub covering change management, culture, project management, stakeholder management, AI tools for strategic projects and more.
- Modify your blank frameworks – for example, change the template to suit the nature of your project, your industry, and the culture of your business. Make them your own.
- Populate your frameworks – I recently worked with an executive on their growth strategy, showing them how to use AI tools to expedite their implementation planning. If you aren’t yet using AI tools on a daily basis, start learning or you will be left in the dust.
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Quote of the week
“You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.”
Dr Seuss
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Keep turbocharging with a culture-friendly approach 😊🌱📈
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About Lisa Carlin
Lisa Carlin is a Strategy Execution Specialist. She works with business leaders to plan and execute their strategies in tough environments. Her clients love having her expertise and guidance to navigate their workplace culture and use AI to achieve success.
Lisa created The Turbochargers Hub, so leaders can master the art of strategic influence and generate momentum for organizational change.
Lisa is author of the globally acclaimed newsletter, Turbocharge Weekly, read by 8,000 business leaders.
Lisa’s career includes roles at McKinsey and Accenture, then running her own business since 1999. Over this time she has delivered over 50 implementations with a 96% success rate.
Written by Lisa Carlin for FutureBuilders: https://www.futurebuildersgroup.com/be-more-strategic-with-executive-frameworks/