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Strategy Acceleration Lab

Great organizations become and remain great because they have the ability to execute.

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Experience the BTS difference

BTS Strategy Acceleration Lab is a multi-faceted program designed to bring together business leaders to tackle the different challenges facing their businesses as they execute their strategies

By having conversations that typically only happen after strategies are set in motion, leaders can anticipate challenge, test assumptions, and spot opportunities, accelerating a process that would otherwise take years.

The Strategy Acceleration Lab is an integrated experience that helps business leaders develop stronger alignment, mindset, and capabilities to execute strategies within their organizations – from examining the critical business challenges and trade-offs that executing their strategies will require across siloes, to driving change through committing to action.

At the core of the Strategy Acceleration Lab is an enterprise business simulation which serves as a platform to test their strategy, underlying assumptions and challenges that might emerge as their ecosystem evolves over time. In a risk-free, customized simulated environment, business leaders come face-to-face with the challenges of strategy execution, taking on roles as C-level leaders, and making critical decisions to execute their strategies. In doing so, they encounter real-world dynamics that stress-test their strategies and challenges them to see how customer demands, business trade-offs, dynamic competition, and unstable conditions, may affect their ability to deliver on their priorities and, through this, develop better strategic foresight for themselves and their teams.

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I need my leaders to:

Examine and stress test our strategy, what it means to our leaders, and their role in driving execution throughout the organization

Develop stronger cross-functional empathy to understand the wider impact of their decisions across the entire organization

Challenge old mindsets and engage new ones

Enable faster execution by role modeling behaviors consistent with our strategic priorities

Program Details

Format
Virtual, in-person, or hybrid
Duration
Multi-day
Capacity
cohorts of 20-25 leaders

Program elements

Strategy alignment sessions
Leadership assessments
Customized enterprise business simulations
Post-workshop coaching journeys
Leadership development
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Enterprise business simulations

At the core of the LeaderLab is an enterprise business simulation which serves as a platform to explore the challenges leaders will face in executing their organization’s strategies. In a risk-free, simulated environment, LeaderLab places leaders face-to-face with the challenges of strategy execution, taking on roles as C-level leaders, and practicing running the business. In doing so, they encounter real-world customer problems, business trade-offs, dynamic competition, and unstable conditions, helping them develop an understanding of their leadership style, confront critical business challenges and trade-offs realistic to your business, cut across siloes, and commit to effective leadership sprints.

By having conversations that typically only happen within the C-suite, leaders internalize the thinking behind the strategy, accelerating a process that would otherwise take years

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Leadership development

Great leaders create inclusive communities and empower their team to advance to a higher level of motivation, lifting individuals, teams, and organizational results.

To be a great leader today, one must adapt quickly in a rapidly changing world while maintaining the compassion and humility needed to relate to your teams on a human level. BTS understands leadership coaching and development better than anyone in our market. With our diverse set of tools and methods, we’ll give your leaders the tools they need to succeed.

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Leadership Assessment

Real-world experiences drive real-world results.

We believe context matters. Our assessments are about leading your business, not any business, and mirror the dynamics of your business and culture. We build our assessments with real people in mind and create experiences optimized for engagement, scientific and practical, that create value at all levels of talent and through all stages of their career.

We strive to go beyond the traditional client-vendor relationship to be your total people partner. By having conversations that typically only happen within the C-suite, leaders internalize the thinking behind the strategy, accelerating a process that would otherwise take years

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Coaching

More than just coaching. Connected. By design. We believe coaching should be in service of your strategy and connected to your values, leader models, and talent processes. If you want to drive change and ensure that it sticks, you must work with leaders at an individual level and collective level. We do both. Our digital ecosystem is more than a coaching app. We integrate coaching, assessment, simulation, and learning experiences to transform people and the business. By connecting multiple learning modalities, leaders develop more complex and sophisticated ways of thinking.

This program helps us improve the execution of our new strategy and achieve the results our shareholders and customers expect.
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Client stories

Running the Leader Lab

As part of their talent development strategy, an American dairy organization’s needed to equip its high-potential employees to reach the next level of leadership. Thus, the organization partnered with BTS to design and deliver a customized, interactive, and experiential learning solution: the Leader Lab.

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Client Stories

Calculated risks toward growth

Post-pandemic layoffs, a retail organization partnered with BTS to provide its employees with commercial acumen in a self-paced, virtual learning environment.

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The Change Ready™ Leader

After experiencing a re-organization and setting a new strategy, a global manufacturing company partnered with BTS to enable its leaders to be "change ready"

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Accelerating speed and quality of decision-making

A fast-growing technology organization partnered with BTS to create a virtually delivered solution. Our innovation & digital transformation team guides organizations through the discipline of discovering and solving problems in new ways under conditions of uncertainty.

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Interested in learning more?

BTS is working to modernize business culture around the globe. We’re looking for creative, courageous, and empathetic individuals who want to help individuals and teams find a greater purpose in their work. We love what we do, and we think you would too.

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