Description

As the head of an organization or a senior leader, you are accountable for more than today's projects, problems, and priorities. You must ensure that the organization has the strategy, structure, people, and management practices required to perform consistently and succeed over the long term. The challenge is that recurring performance problems are often treated as isolated issues when they are symptoms of deeper organizational conditions.

The Performance Blueprint introduces an integrated framework for looking beneath those symptoms. Using the Organizational Tree Model, participants will examine how business model, strategy, organization design, accountability and authority, managerial leadership, and fit to role combine to shape performance, profitability, and culture. The emphasis is practical: identifying where leadership attention will have the greatest impact and understanding how changes in one part of the organization affect the others.

Participants Will Explore

• How to distinguish visible performance symptoms from the organizational issues that may be causing them.
• Why strategies often fail in execution, and how strategy must be translated into clear work, priorities, and accountabilities.
• How organization design, accountability, and authority affect delegation, decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration.
• The role of managers in creating performance, engagement, and clarity, and why strong technical performers do not automatically become effective managers.
• How to improve role fit by matching the capability, skills, knowledge, and commitment of people to the work that needs to be done.
• How leadership practices shape culture, and why sustained improvement requires a consistent approach over time.
• How confidential peer learning can help heads of organizations challenge assumptions, explore opportunities, and work through difficult issues with other experienced leaders.

Intended Audience

Business owners, presidents, CEOs, general managers, senior executives, functional leaders with significant organizational accountability, and next-generation leaders preparing to assume broader responsibility.

Speaker

Dwight W. Mihalicz, MBA, FCMC

Dwight Mihalicz helps CEOs, business owners, and senior leaders build organizations that can consistently deliver their strategy. As a Vistage Chair in Ottawa, he works with peer advisory groups of CEOs and business leaders, combining confidential peer learning, executive coaching, and practical leadership development to help members make better decisions and strengthen their organizations.
Dwight is also the Founder and President of Effective Managers™, a management consulting firm focused on organizational performance, accountability and authority, manager effectiveness, and organization design. Over more than 20 years as a management consultant, he has worked with organizations in Canada and internationally, helping leaders identify root-cause issues that limit performance and implement practical, research-based approaches to improvement.

A Fellow Certified Management Consultant (FCMC) and MBA graduate of the University of Ottawa, Dwight has held senior leadership roles in the management consulting profession, including serving as Chair of the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes. He is the author of several books on leadership and organizational performance, including The Effective CEO, and brings a practical, systems-based perspective to helping leaders get the best from their organizations.