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1. Our leadership team is actively engaged in initiating, planning and executing our strategy and strategic goals. *

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2. Our leaders are accountable for the results and failures of our strategy execution. They walk the talk, provide the necessary support and resources, remove barriers and expedite strategic implementation for effectiveness, speed, and efficiency. *

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3. Our leaders manage expectations by regularly communicating direction and changes in the strategy. *

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4. Our leaders provide a clear vision of the organization’s direction. *

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5. Our leaders instill a clear, credible, and inspiring purpose so that each person understands the vision, mission, and purpose and their contribution to support them. Our leaders build individual commitment and buy-in to the vision so that everyone in our organization wants to rather than have to be actively involved in the execution of the organization’s strategy. *

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6. Our leaders prioritize and allocate resources to the right projects to achieve our vision, mission, purpose and strategic plan. *

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7. Our leaders empower people through delegation, coaching, mentoring, capacity building and the promotion of teamwork and collaboration. *

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8. Our leaders translate our vision, mission and purpose energizing, motivating and inspiring people to act and achieve their best. *

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9. Our leaders regularly monitor performance and progress, ensuring that everyone delivers, dealing decisively with poor performance, implementing corrective measures and rewarding good performance. *

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1. We have an annually reviewed and approved strategic plan that is clear, readily available, widely communicated and accepted by management and employees so that everyone knows their part in implementing the plan. *

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2. We focus our efforts on a limited number of goals that strategically will make a significant difference. Our strategic priorities are clearly defined. *

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3. We regularly work to implement our strategy.  *

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4. Our strategic goals are an enterprise view linked to corporate goals and are SMART – specific, measurable, action-focused, relevant, and time-specific. We regularly measure our strategic goals and know where we are now. *

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5. We have performance indicators and targets that measure our execution performance. *

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6. We have performance indicators and targets that measure the effectiveness of our strategic initiatives. *

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7. We fund the implementation of our strategy and activities, projects and programs with realistic budgets that are based on good cost and time estimates. *

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1. We employ a project management techniques and methods. *

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2. We have sufficiently skilled and competent people in project management. *

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3. We plan our strategic activities, projects and programs using detailed project plans before implementation. *

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4. We have transparency of all our projects and regularly measure and evaluate our projects in terms of progress according to plan (on-time, on-budget, quality), benefits realization and customer/stakeholder satisfaction. *

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5. Each project has an appointed project sponsor who wants the project to succeed and who will make available the required resources, and remove project barriers. *

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6. Team members are formally assigned to each project with clearly defined roles, responsibilities, ownership and accountabilities. *

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7. Our projects are normally completed on time and within budget, requirement and scope with quality and satisfaction of all stakeholders. *

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8. Our projects normally contribute to the achievement of our strategy and strategic goals. *

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9. We document and share lessons learned from our projects – successes, failures and areas of improvement. *

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10. We regularly review and update our project plans. *

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11. We have no hesitation in terminating projects that do not align, link or contribute to the achievement of our strategic goals. *

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12. We regularly include staff in implementation planning. *

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13. People understand their place in the plan and how they contribute to the corporate goals. *

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14. We evaluate capabilities and capacity prior to introducing new initiatives. *

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15. We have the right number of projects based on our capacity. *

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1. We can see how the achievement of goals and projects are realizing our organization’s vision, mission and purpose. *

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2. We have organizational structure and people with the right skills, competencies and capabilities to successfully execute our strategy. *

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3. We have an organizational culture that works towards successful strategy execution. *

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4. By achieving our personal goals, we are individually contributing to the achievement of the strategic goals because our personal and strategic goals are well aligned. *

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5. We have positive attitudes, motives and behaviors towards our work. *

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6. Our policies, processes and operating procedures work together to support the achievement of our vision, mission, purpose and strategic goals. *

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7. Our annual budgeting process allocates sufficient financial resources to successfully implement our initiatives. We have sufficient and appropriate facilities, equipment, tools, materials, vehicles, etc. to successfully execute our strategy. *

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8. Our technology systems support the implementation of our strategy. *

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9. Our communication is characterized by transparency, openness, frankness, honesty, truthfulness, sincerity, and straightforwardness. *

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10. We have a culture of regular, transparent, honest and open discussions on organization, unit and individual performance. *

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11. Communication regarding strategy is clear and I feel comfortable providing feedback. *

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12. Communication is clear and serves as a guide to making timely business decisions. *

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1. We regularly (at least monthly) measure the progress of our initiatives and performance and progress in achieving our strategic goals. *

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2. We have wide acceptance and support in the methodology we use to measure and evaluate the organizational and individual performance. *

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3. Measuring our performance is simple, easy to understand and effective and we use acceptable processes, tools and software to capture, analyze, and evaluate our performance data and trends. *

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4. We normally agree on the most appropriate response or improvement action. *

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5. We have a corporate scorecard. *

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6. Our performance reports are clear, user-friendly, powerful and ontime. *

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7. Our performance reports are used for learning and development and we regularly make improvements to the organization’s performance. *

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8. We are able to repeat successes, prevent failures and improve our strategy and projects. *

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9. We have a system in place to easily introduce new projects and re-evaluate existing project priorities, resources and timeframe associated with with the appropriate reallocation. *

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10. We are good at incorporating organizational change management practices into our projects. *

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11. Our performance meetings are well attended, productive and effective. *

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12. We allow and promote wide participation in the decision-making process. *

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1. Our staff want to execute the organization’s strategy as they see it as pursuing a worth-while purpose. *

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2. Our staff knows what is expected of them and are clear on what to do, by when, at what cost, at what quality and who to report to. *

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3. Our staff can see how the achievement of their goals and projects supports the realization of the organization’s vision, mission, purpose, and strategic goals. *

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4. Our performance management system is fair, objective and transparent. *

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1. We identify risks, issues and opportunities when we are developing our strategic plan. *

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2. Our risk management process has strategically helped us successfully achieved our goals and vision. *

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3. Our risk management process has operationally helped us succeed in our projects. *

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4. We have a good track record in mitigating our risks and threats and maximizing our opportunities and successes. *

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1. We clearly link engagement with strategy execution, communication and project management. *

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2. We regularly report on and update our stakeholder management and engagement plan. *

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