Pre-Summit Clinics
Pre-summit clinics are your opportunity to take a deep dive on a particular topic (or two) and learn from the experts at Ascendant
who have been helping people tackle these issues for over ten years. The interactive, hands-on "how-to" training sessions are perfect if you need a
refresher in strategy management or if you're tackling these issues for the first time.
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
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8:00 am - 9:00 am
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Registration & Continental Breakfast
Ballroom and Foyer/Atrium
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9:00 am - 12:00 noon
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Clinic A: Balanced Scorecard Basics for Mission-Driven Organizations
Creating a strategy, translating the strategy to your organization and monitoring progress are three essential
functions of the balanced scorecard. By employing the BSC within you organization you will be able to create a
transparent environment that allows you to set and monitor goals and communicate progress throughout. The BSC is a
multilevel system that will track performance through financial analysis, customer satisfaction, internal process,
and organizational growth. This introductory workshop for Balanced Scorecard methodology will provide insight on the
following topics, and leave you with a great basis for BSC methodology to bring back to your organization:
- BSC Overview
- Strategy Maps
- Themes
- Key measures and targets
- Initiative alignment
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Clinic B: Optimizing Your Strategy-Focused Organization
It is one thing to have a Balanced Scorecard and another thing to really use it correctly to execute your strategy.
Drs. Norton and Kaplan defined what success looks like in their two books: The Strategy Focused Organization and The
Execution Premium. This clinic will translate these concepts for mission-driven organizations and identify the keys
to successful execution of strategy. The clinic will focus on the following topics to help your organization:
- Alignment
- Communications and Personal Scorecards
- The Integrated Management Process
- Introduction to Strategy Reporting
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12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
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Networking Lunch
First Amendment Lounge
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1:00pm - 4:00pm
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Clinic C: Integrating Risk Management and Strategy Management
Within an uncertain economic environment managing risk becomes exponentially important for social and public
sector organizations. With funding and support lacking it is essential to shift risk management to the forefront of
your strategic management objectives. Using the BSC as a tool is a great way to integrate the two aspects of management.
Risk factors can impede your strategic goal, by moving risk management to your organization's strategy you will
effectively mitigate risk and proceed on course. This workshop will provide attendees with the tools needed to integrate
the two facets of management into one practical entity, and provide guidance on how to:
- Develop and implement a Risk Management program
- Integrate management techniques
- Use the BSC as a tool to manage risk
- Apply principles of risk management to organizational strategy
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Clinic D: Managing Results Through Effective Strategy Reporting Meeting
A mission driven strategy requires transparency throughout the echelons of an organization. Strategy meetings are
influential in communicating objectives to employees and driving production. Putting in place metrics or performance
measurements that all facets of an organization understand will convey the strategy of an organization and breed a
cohesive atmosphere amongst employees, managers, directors, and executives. This workshop is instrumental in teaching
you how to bring successful strategy reporting meetings back to your organization, and implement the following
crucial tactics:
- Install performance measurements
- Create group cohesion
- Enhance productivity in employees
- Execute strategy on all levels
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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Networking Reception
First Amendment Lounge
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