Strategic Agility

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Think back to the last time you pivoted, either personally or professionally. What did you learn about yourself?

Your Approach to Strategic Agility

1. On a scale from reactive to proactive, where would you place yourself right now in terms of strategic thinking?
2. Where do you feel most confident in your strategic leadership and where do you feel stretched or uncertain?
3. How does your leadership style support or get in the way of navigating change effectively?
4. What does “leading with agility” feel like in your body or mindset? Energizing, exhausting, empowering, or something else?

Awareness

Adaptability

Action

What are you willing to shift?

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This is about challenging your assumptions, rethinking strategies, and letting go of what no longer serves you or your company, even if it once did.

What are you ready to action on?

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This is your ability to make bold, purposeful moves even when the outcome isn’t fully guaranteed.

What are you noticing?

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This is your ability to scan for signals that others might ignore, including market shifts, customer needs, internal dynamics, etc.

The Three A’s of Strategic Agility

Reflect

What’s a situation you’re currently facing where the path forward feels unclear but standing still doesn’t feel right either?

Awareness

Adaptability

Action

What are you willing to shift?

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Where are you holding on to a plan that no longer serves you?

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What new possibilities are you willing to test, even if they challenge your current model or identity?

What are you ready to action on?

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What small, strategic action can you take now to test your thinking?

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What decision have you made internally, but not acted on yet?

What are you noticing?

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What’s changing in your ecosystem that you can’t afford to ignore?

What assumptions might you be holding that need to be re-examined?

Reflect on your challenge through the lens of the Three A’s:

Peer Advisory:

Identify Your Challenge

I’m sensing _______ (awareness), I’m trying to figure out how to ______ (adaptability), and I’m not sure what the right next move is to ______ (action).

Peer Advisory

Free Form

1. Presenter shares their challenge and the support they are seeking from the group.
2. Group asks clarifying questions to gain context or details and check assumptions; presenter answers.
3. Group and presenter discuss the challenge providing support, affirmation, ideas, resources, etc.

Peer Advisory

Wise Crowds

1. Presenter shares their challenge and the support they are seeking from the group.
2. Group asks clarifying questions to gain context or details and check assumptions; presenter answers.
3. Presenter turns off their camera and prepares to listen and take notes.
4. Group discusses the challenge by sharing impressions, thoughts, ideas, wonderings aloud with each other.
5. Presenter turns camera back on and shares what they found most useful in listening to the wisdom of the group.

Peer Advisory

Note Takers

• Presenter shares their challenge and the support they are seeking from the group.
• Each person asks one clarifying question in the chat about the challenge.
• Presenter selects 1-3 questions and responds to them verbally.
• All members turn off their cameras and write a response to the presenters challenge, including the presenter.
• Members share a 1-sentence summary of their response in the chat.
• Presenter selects 1-2 members to discuss with further and the rest of the group listens and takes notes.

Group Discussion

1. Sensing and Awareness: How do you personally scan for early signals of change and how do you avoid being surprised?
2. Action and Experimentation: How do you know when it’s time to test something vs. commit fully?
3. Organizational Agility: What systems, habits, or mindsets inside your organization might be slowing agility down?
4. Strategic Integration: Which of the Three A’s (Awareness, Adaptability, Action) is your strength and which is your edge?
5. Implementation: What is one bold action that you will take as a result of this discussion and how would taking action shift the energy of your team or organization?

READ:

Architecting the Future: Why Leaders Must Balance Strategic Agility and Consistency

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Harvard Business Review

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REVIEW:

The Three A’s of Strategic Agility: A Practical Framework for Navigating Change

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CHIEF

REFLECT:

Three A’s Reflection Questions

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CHIEF

READ:

Resilient by Design: How to Build Strategic Agility Amidst Increasing Uncertainty

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BTS Blog

Thank you!