HOW THE BEST IMPROVE BOOTCAMP
Rapidly understand how top performing organisations drive continuous improvement. Gain actionable insights from more than two decades of close study of more than 40 industry leaders.
Do You Want To...
- ► Discover exactly what the best performing organisations do differently when it comes to developing, deploying and executing strategy?
- ► Leverage insights gained over more than 2 decades working and benchmarking with over 40 of the world’s most consistently successful organisations?
- ► Understand the four key principles that underpin consistently successful execution and how the best have built “execution” systems that continually reinforce these principles?
Course Overview
Our one-day bootcamp give busy executives the outside in view of what good execution looks like. Think of it as the fastest way you can assess the scale of opportunity to improve strategy execution in your organisation.
▶ You want to rapidly assess – in less than a day - what good looks like in terms of strategy execution.
▶ You want to understand, in more detail, exactly what it will take to replicate the “execution” systems, and success, of the world’s most consistent value creating companies.
▶ You are trying to make sense of the acronym soup of strategy implementation methodologies (OKRs, OGSM, Hoshin, 4DX…).
▶ You want to frame your organisation's vision of “better” strategy execution and want to compare, and contrast, your organisation’s approach with best practice.
▶ What, in practice, makes executing strategy difficult and what specifically can be learnt from the way the best performing organisations approach strategy execution.
▶ The four guiding principles that underpin strategy execution success and why they really matter.
▶ How the best surface the tough decisions, reach consensus on the hard choices and clarify the breakthroughs needed.
▶ What level of clarity and focus is really needed to set-up for successful execution and exactly how you can consistently reach it.
▶ How you ensure there is the necessary level of ownership and accountability at all levels for executing the resulting plan.
▶ How you consistently make the course corrections needed when the plan, our assumptions, or the world around us, changes.
▶ Ultimately, which execution frameworks are more likely to help you succeed – and how can you combine them to create a “world class” execution system.
▶ “Line of Business” Leaders charged with delivering profitable growth – particularly those who wants to significantly increase the certainty that their growth/turnaround strategy will deliver.
▶ Operational Excellence Practitioners who want to understand what best practice strategy execution looks like and get a strategic take on the pros and cons of different strategy execution frameworks (Hoshin Kanri, OKRs, Agile, OGSM, 4DX etc).
▶ Strategy and Transformation Leaders who want to benchmark their organisation’s “execution” system and/or are trying to clarity their organisation’s vision of “better” strategy execution.
▶ Not Just Another Generic Strategy Execution Training - This course reveals the specific, and in many cases unexpected, practices that enable leading organisations to successfully navigate each cycle of disruption.
▶ Highly Experiential and Immediately Applicable – the backbone of this training is a fictional – but compelling – airline based case study which is used to bring concepts to life, support group exercises and demonstrate exactly how specific practices can be implemented.
▶ A private link to a complete recording of the instructor led elements of the training (no recordings are made of participant group working/reflection sessions).
▶ Digital access to an executive level presentation that summarises the key insights and recommendations from the bootcamp that can be used to socialise the learning within your organisation.
▶ Five unique discount codes - providing individual participants with a 15% discount on any future Breakthrough Partners’ course - that can be gifted to any individual in your professional and personal network.
▶ The option (per organisation joining) for a complimentary Deep Dive – leverage decades of strategy execution experience with up to 2 hours of free advice – focused on your specific questions - from one of our strategy implementation experts.
Upcoming Courses
Our one-day bootcamp give busy executives the outside in view of what good execution looks like. Think of it as the fastest way you can assess the scale of opportunity to improve strategy execution in your organisation.
Would an alternative date be more suitable?
We offer a variety of training options, customised to your needs. Whether you prefer live on-line or in-person – at a specific location or on your organisation’s premises – we can provide a cost-effective solution.
Course Outline
Our one-day bootcamp give busy executives the outside in view of what good execution looks like. Think of it as the fastest way you can assess the scale of opportunity to improve strategy execution in your organisation.
▶ Reality check – competing in an ever more disrupted and disruptive world
▶ Staying relevant vs. staying competitive
▶ The forces resisting “game changing” breakthroughs
▶ The reality of strategy execution in most organisations
▶ A systems view - running and improving the business vs. transforming the business
▶ Created problems vs. caused problems – strategy execution as a PDCA cycle
▶ The four guiding principles of strategy execution
▶ Why focus – doing less to achieve more - matters
▶ Why clarity – choosing the right thing rather than anything - matters
▶ Why alignment – ensuring those executing are fully engaged – matters
▶ Why discipline – locking in the habits that drive the right behaviour – matters
▶ How do the best integrate these principles into an effective “breakthrough” system
▶ How do the best leverage strategy execution frameworks to build their “breakthrough” system
▶ How the best think about the breakthrough plan vs. the annual operating plan
▶ Strategy development vs. strategy refinement
▶ What is the outcome we want from strategy refinement?
▶ How the best force the hard decisions and build consensus
▶ Using the Strategy Narrative and Strategy Canvas to build clarity and focus
▶ Articulating breakthroughs is a way they inspire us to act▶ What is the outcome we want from strategy deployment?
▶ How the best translate breakthroughs to actionable priorities
▶ Engagement vs. alignment – why engagement is not enough
▶Using the Strategy A3 to drive critical thinking, drive alignment and surface the right things to do
▶ How the best concepts from different strategy execution frameworks can be combined (OKRs, Hoshin, OGSM…)
▶ How the best ultimately build a plan that is both executable and easy to adapt
▶ How the best view strategy execution as rolling sprints
▶ Anatomy of a typical quarterly sprint cycle
▶ Staying focused in the “Whirlwind” – the importance of Leader Standard Work and Atomic Habits
▶ Dealing with reality – how the best ensure systematic course correction.
▶Managing execution in a multi-divisional organisation
▶ Core components of an effective “Breakthrough” System
▶ Leveraging the Probability of Successful Execution Assessment to build the consensus to act
▶ Leveraging commercially available “Breakthrough” system templates
▶ Options to digitise your “Breakthrough” system
▶ Summary of key take-aways/recommendations
▶ Reflection and feedback
Certification
Delegates who successfully complete and meet the criteria for participation in the "How the Best Execute" Bootcamp course will receive a certificate of completion issued by Breakthrough Partners.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Reserving and Booking Training
You can reserve a place on any Breakthrough Partners training course for up to 3 delegates by registering your interest in the course and letting us know (by either selecting the date you want in the respective course schedule or by indicating which of the available dates you would prefer). You can register your interest in a specific course in four ways:
- On-line: Select the web-site page for the course you want to register for, click any “Register Interest” button on that page and complete and submit the "Register Interest" form. Note you can register interest in up to 3 participants via this form.
- On-line via Chat: Select the on-line chat icon on the bottom right of our web-page to speak to one of our team. Let them know you'd like to reserve one or more places on one of our upcoming courses and they'll walk you through what information we need to know from you to do that.
- E-mail: Send an email with the details of the candidate(s) you'd like to reserve a place for (full name, organisation and business email address) to training@breakthrough-partners.com highlighting the course required. Note, training reservations from private (non business) e-mail addresses are not accepted.
- Telephone: Please call UK: +44 (0)333 987 5288 to reserve one, or more, places on any course or to discuss your training requirements with a Breakthrough Partners training specialist.
Note, on reserving one, or more places for participants from your organisation the individual booking the training will be sent a confirmation of the reservation(s) with details on how to pay for the course and/or how to confirm that your organisation would prefer to receive an invoice for the training.
Note, unless an alternative arrangement is agreed in writing in advance (between Breakthrough Partners and your organisation), payment for the training is required in advance of an participant(s) starting the training.
You can book a place on any Breakthrough Partner's course in two ways:
- By first reserving a place and then paying, or confirming in writing via e-mail (to training@breakthrough-partners.com), that your organisation accepts thar the training service and invoicing for that training service will be subject to the terms and conditions set-out in our Training Agreement (as of the date of your e-mail).
- By e-mailing training@breakthrough-partners.com with details of the participant(s) for whom you are booking a place, confirming in that e-mail that your organisation will accept the terms of the training agreement and would prefer to pay on receipt of an invoice.
Note on reserving a place your organisation the individual booking the training will be sent a confirmation of the reservation with details on how to pay for the course and/or how to confirm that your organisation would prefer to receive an invoice for the training. This confirmation e-mail will include the details of how much is due, a reference to include in any payment and by when the payment is due.
Note, unless an alternative arrangement is agreed in writing in advance (between Breakthrough Partners and your organisation), payment for the training is required in advance of an participant(s) starting the training.
A place can be reserved on Breakthrough Partners training course by simply registering your interest in attending that training (as long as the reservation is made more than 30 days before the date the course is due to start).
Any reserved place will be released 30 days before the start date of the training, if either a payment, (or evidence that a payment has been made), or a written confirmation from an authorised representative of your organisation's agreement to accept the terms of the Training Agreement, is not received 30 days before the start of the training.
Once either a payment (or evidence of payment) or a written confirmation of the organisation's agreement under the terms of the Training Agreement is received, the reserved training place will be considered as booked from the perspective of the Training Agreement.
Yes, you can reserve, or book, places for other delegates if you are not attending the course.
As per the Training Agreement (see footer of this page), we ask that you provide the full name and business e-mail address when reserving, or booking, a place for any proposed participant(s) on any Breakthrough Partners' course.
The person registering the interest (for other participant(s) to join a specific course) will receive an e-mail confirmation which confirms how to complete the booking for the nominated participant(s).
The nominated participant(s) will also receive a confirmation e-mail indicating that a place has been reserved (or booked) for them and once places are booked, the confirmed participants will receive by e-mail the necessary pre-course notifications that ensure they are fully prepared to join the training.
Where the start of the course is more than 30 days away, a course reservation can be cancelled by contacting Breakthrough Partners and requesting the cancellation of the course reservation.
You can contact Breakthrough Partners to make the cancellation by either on-line chat, sending an e-mail to training@breakthrough-partners.com or by calling us on +44 (0)333 987 5288.
If a reserved course place is not confirmed within 30 days of the start of the course through payment or the fees or written confirmation of the organisations acceptance of the Training Agreement, then any places reserved will released. Note, a confirmation e-mail indicating that this will happen will be sent approximately a week before reserved places are released.
As per the terms of our Training Agreement (see footer of this page) course bookings can be cancelled if an e-mail notice requesting the cancellation is sent to training@breakthrough-partners.com (and is subsequently acknowledged as having been received on that date by Breakthrough Partners) more than 30 days before the start of the course.
A refund of the full fees will be made for cancellations received (and acknowledged to have been received) more than 30 days before the start of the training.
If a request for cancellation is received (and acknowledged to have been received) less than 30 days before the start of the training, then Breakthrough Partners will attempt, where possible, to offer the option to switch to another date for the same course (if places are available).
In the event that one, or more, participants with a confirmed course bookings cannot for extenuating business, or personal, reasons attend the scheduled training course, please contact Breakthrough Partners as soon as possible to advise us. The sooner you advise us the more we may be able to do to switch the participant(s) to an alternative date for the same course without incurring the fees for cancelled training within 30 dates of the date of the start of the course. You can do this in three ways:
- Via e-mail: Send an e-mail to training@breakthrough-partners.com highlighting the course, date and full name(s) and email address(es) of any delegates that cannot make the training.
- Via Telephone: Please call UK: +44 (0)333 987 5288 and provide the details of the participant(s) who will not be able to make the training to our team.
- Via On-chat (When a Breakthrough Partner's team member is on-line): You can also provide the same details to the Breakthrough Partners team member via the web-site chat (when on-line).
Please note that we will do our best to find an alternative date that may be more suitable but this cannot be guaranteed and if a switch to an alternative start date for the same course is not possible the full fees for a cancellation within 30 days of the start of the training will be charged (or in exceptional circumstances a credit will be offered towards an alternative training course for the same, or different, participants).
Breakthrough Partners accepts most online forms of payment. On registering interest in a place on a course you will receive an e-mail with details on how to make a payment to confirm your course booking or how to send an e-mail confirmation of your agreement to the terms of the Training Agreement indicating your preference to receive an invoice.
A course reservation will be held up to 30 days before the start date of the course. Beyond this point a payment or e-mail indicating acceptance of the Training Agreement (see footer of this web-page) and indicating a preference to receive an invoice is required to convert the reservation into a confirmed course booking.
The web-site forms that support registration of interest for one, or more delegates enable the details of up to three delegates to be provided. If you require more than three delegates, you can make a reservation in three ways:
- On-line via Chat: Select the on-line chat icon on the bottom right of our web-page to speak to one of our team. Let them know you'd like to reserve four, or more, places on one of our upcoming courses and they'll walk you through what information we need to know from you to do that.
- E-mail: Send an email with the details of the delegate(s) you'd like to reserve a place for (full name, organisational role and business email address) to training@breakthrough-partners.com highlighting the course required. Note, training reservations from private (non business) e-mail addresses are not accepted.
- Telephone: Please call UK: +44 0333 9875288 to reserve four, or more, places on any course or to discuss your training requirements with a Breakthrough Partners training specialist.
Once a training reservation has been made for your delegates, Breakthrough Partners will contact the person making the reservation by e-mail to explain the options you have o convert this reservation into a confirmed booking.
Breakthrough Partners offer discounts for organisations who wish to booking delegates on more than one course or who wish to reserve places for multiple delegates. For further information please discuss your training requirements with a Breakthrough Partners team member. You can do this via:
- On-line via Chat: Select the on-line chat icon on the bottom right of our web-page to speak to one of our team. Let them know your requirements and they'll walk you through the discounts we can offer.
- E-mail: Send an email with the details of your multi-course and/or group training requirements to training@breakthrough-partners.com and we'll respond with details of the discounts that are available for group/multi-course bookings.
- Telephone: Please call UK: +44 0333 987 5288 to to discuss your training requirements with a Breakthrough Partners training specialist and we'll explain the discounts available.
Breakthrough Partners also offer attractive corporate rates to organisations that want run any of our courses as in-house training. If you would like to discuss in-house training options please speak to our team on any of the options detailed above.
Breakthrough Partners charges VAT on Services provided to organisations head-quartered in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). For customer's whose headquarters are outside the UK, VAT will not normally be charged, although each customer should check the applicable regulation in force in their legal jurisdiction.
Booking In-house Training
All Breakthrough Partners Training can be offered as an in-house (instructor led) format. To discuss your specific training requirements you can contact Breakthrough Partners in any one of the following ways:
- On-line: Select any relevant link on our website to request a call-back/speak to an expert to discuss your in-house training requirements.
- On-line via Chat: Select the on-line chat icon on the bottom right of our web-page to speak to one of our team about your in-house training requirements.
- E-mail: Send an email with the details of your in-house training requirements to training@breakthrough-partners.com.
- Telephone: Please call UK: +44 0333 9875288 to discuss your in-house training requirements with a Breakthrough Partners training specialist.
The minimum number of participants for a Breakthrough Partners in-house Training course is 1, however to be cost efficient and to benefit from the value of group interactions during the training we would recommend a range of 4–10 delegates depending on the course selected.
For more than 10 delegates, a second instructor can be offered to ensure effective training of larger groups.
To provide in-house training, Breakthrough Partners asks that the organisation hosting the training ensure that the following facilities are available:
- A training room that can comfortably accommodate the size of the group to be trained.
- Audi-visual equipment that allow presentation of slide materials on a large enough screen that can be comfortably read by all participants and which allows sound to be played at a volume that can be comfortably heard by all participants.
- Access to wifi in the training facility with sufficient bandwidth to allow all participants to be simultaneously accessing cloud-based applications.
- Access to either food/ beverage service or local cafeteria facilities to support regular refreshment breaks and, where appropriate, a lunch break (if the course timing encompasses the mid-day period).
- Relevant safety briefing information that can be communicated to participants as to what to do in the advent of an on-site emergency that requires evacuation of the training facility.
Yes, there is the option to receive an invoice for a confirmed booking. On reserving, one or more, places in a training course, Breakthrough Partners will send details to the person making the reservation of how to confirm your agreement to the terms of the Training Agreement and request an invoice for the booked training.
Once requested an invoice will be provided. This invoice should be paid in full before the delegate(s) start the training if the booking is to be maintained.
Preparing for, and Participating in, Training Courses
Breakthrough Partners will provide joining instructions to delegates by email once the boking has been confirmed for that delegate.
The joining instructions will set-out the times of each on-line or on-site session and how to join and participate in the on-line sessions.
The joining instructions will also set-out how to joining instructions will also set-out any suggested preparation that the participant can undertake before starting the training to enhance the training experience. Typically this will include links to relevant articles and videos that support preparation for the training.
If your booking has been confirmed but you have not yet received your joining instructions, please contact us either by e-mail to training@breakthrough-partners.com or via telephone on +44 (0)333 987 5288.
Course joining instructions will be sent to each participant once the course booking for the delegate has been finalised. These joining instructions will, where appropriate, provide links to on-line resources e.g. briefings and/or videos, that should ideally be reviewed by participants before the start of the course.
Where (due to the more advanced nature of the course) reviewing specific on-line resources (for example, to ensure a minimum level of understanding of foundational concepts) is a pre-requisite, this will be indicated in the initial joining instructions.
Breakthrough Partners would ask that every participant that joins one of our training courses, join with a positive commitment to learn and a willingness to explore and embrace new concepts - even if those concepts challenge us to question our assumptions and beliefs.
By default Breakthrough Partners' training is provided on a remote instructor led basis, so booking accommodation is not typically a pre-requisite for attending the course.
Where a course is arranged as an in-company (in-house) training event, the responsibility for arranging and necessary travel and accommodation for participants is typically taken by the organisation for whom the (in-house) training is being provided.
Appropriate meal and refreshment breaks are provided when training courses are delivered in an in-company (in-house) format.
The specific schedule for these breaks will be agreed in advance of the course starting with the nominated lead from the organisation for whom the training is being provided, and it is expected that the organisation receiving the training will coordinate with their food and beverage service suppliers/local cafeteria providers to ensure that appropriate refreshments and food is available for participants at the agreed break times.
Breakthrough Partners trainers will make every effort to ensure that, as far as possible, the agreed timings for breaks are respected and will advise the nominated client lead if there is a risk of divergence from the agreed timings.
Some Breakthrough Partners Training Courses include a number of hours of 1:1 or 1:small group coaching with a Breakthrough Partners Lean Business System Expert within the scope of the training package.
Post training coaching support has been included in specific training courses where we believe it will be highly beneficial for participants to have access to an expert for guidance after the training has completed.
The inclusion of the coaching is noted in the course outline (see specifically details of post course coaching).
Where post course coaching is included in the scope of the training, that coaching will be provided remotely via Microsoft Teams and could involve sharing of information before and during the coaching session via a secure shared cloud drive (ideally provided by the client organisation whose participant(s) is/are receiving the coaching).
All Breakthrough Partners Facilitator and some of Breakthrough Partners Specialist courses include the option of obtaining a post training certification issued by Breakthrough Partners or, where relevant, widely respected 3rd party certification authorities.
The specific certification available will depend on the training course, but in general for Breakthrough Partners' Facilitator training, obtaining certification will involve not just satisfactorily completing the course but also successfully passing both a post -course assessment and provision of evidence that the relevant Breakthrough Business System implementation methodology has been successfully applied to refine, deploy and implement strategy or to implement a lean production system.
For those attending specialist courses the certification criteria will depend on the expectations of the 3rd party certification bodies - please see the certification section of each training course overview for the specific details of how certification is obtained for that course.
Breakthrough Partners will actively seek feedback from all training participants at the end of each training course.
Once this feedback has been collated, and anonymised, it will be shared with all participants that provided feedback via email.
Where Breakthrough Partners provides a course on an in-company (in-house) basis and the organisation requests Breakthrough Partners to identify the participants providing the feedback, then this will be provided for all participants who indicate at the point of giving the feedback that they are willing to be identified in the consolidated course feedback.
By default, to ensure consistency and continuity, a single highly experienced lead trainer will deliver the majority of the course content for remotely delivered Breakthrough Partners training courses.
However, where the course includes sessions in which participants need to split into small groups to complete specific tasks, a second Breakthrough Partners trainer will typically provide additional support to ensure the smooth running of these working sessions.
Where a Breakthrough Partners course is provided on an in-company (in-house) basis, the organisation commissioning the course has the option to request more than one trainer if they feel this would be beneficial to support the delivery of the course. Whilst option of an adding an additional trainer will increase the fees for the course, past clients of Breakthrough Partners have found it beneficial particularly when the course runs over multiple contiguous days.
Hear from past delegates who have attended this course...
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"Having a background in Lean, I was still struggling to understand the benefits and differences between the different approaches to Strategy Planning, Hoshin, OKRs, Balanced Scorecard, Breakthrough Goals, Daily Management etc and this course really helped to put the pieces together."
Dan Whiston
Director of Transformation | University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust -
"The Hoshin Bootcamp was a great one day Training event for me, providing everything I needed to know to get started with Hoshin and helpfully providing an understanding of how others integrate this process into a Management System."
Trudie Udell
Transformation Programme Manager | National Highways
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