Overview
Too many leaders leave strategy sessions energized but return to work with no clear path for turning ideas into measurable progress.
This highly practical webinar is designed to help managers and leaders close the gap between intention and execution by learning how to focus on the right priorities, align people around what matters most, and build an action plan that creates momentum immediately. Participants will learn how to simplify strategic thinking, identify what should happen first, communicate expectations clearly, and drive consistent follow-through without overwhelming the team. If you want to stop talking about strategy and start seeing results, this session will give you a usable framework, practical tools, and a step-by-step action approach you can implement today.
Why should you Attend
- Recognize why many well-intended strategies fail in execution and what strong leaders do differently
- Identify the highest-value priorities that deserve immediate attention rather than trying to fix everything at once
- Translate broad goals into practical actions, ownership, milestones, and visible measures of progress
- Strengthen accountability by clarifying expectations, deadlines, checkpoints, and communication rhythms
- Create stronger alignment across the team so that everyone understands what success looks like and how to contribute
- Learn how to remove barriers that slow execution, including indecision, overload, vague direction, and inconsistent follow-through
- Build a realistic action plan participants can begin using immediately after the webinar
Areas Covered in the Session
- Why Strategy So Often Stalls
- The most common reasons good ideas never become sustained results
- Why urgency, overload, and unclear ownership weaken execution
- The leadership mindset required to move from planning to action
- Deciding What Matters Most Right Now
- How to separate critical priorities from distractions
- Choosing what to start, stop, continue, and sequence first
- Avoiding the trap of launching too many initiatives at once
- Turning Goals Into Actionable Commitments
- Breaking strategy into practical next steps, timelines, and deliverables
- Assigning ownership and defining visible measures of success
- Creating early wins that build confidence and momentum
- Communicating the Plan So People Engage
- How to explain the “why,” the “what,” and the “what now”
- Building commitment through clarity, consistency, and dialogue
- Using meetings, updates, and checkpoints to reinforce execution
- Building Accountability Without Creating Resistance
- Establishing review points, deadlines, and follow-up habits
- Coaching team members for progress rather than simply policing them
- Correcting drift before it becomes a larger performance issue
- Creating an Immediate Action Plan
- A simple framework for determining today, this week, and this month priorities
- What leaders should document, communicate, and track immediately
- How to leave the webinar with a realistic action plan ready to implement
Who Will Benefit
- CEO
- Senior Vice President
- Vice President
- Executive Director
- Managing Director
- Regional Vice President
- Area Supervisor
- Manager
Speaker Profile
Chris DeVany is the founder and president of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm which focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle's clients include global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries. He also has consulted to government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, Cayman Islands and the United Kingdom.
He has published numerous articles in the fields of surviving mergers and acquisitions, surviving change, project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance In Practice to Customer Service Management. His book, "90 Days to a High-Performance Team", published by McGraw Hill and often accompanied by in-person, facilitated instruction, has helped and continues to help thousands of executives, managers and team leaders improve performance.
He has appeared hundreds of times on radio and television interview programs to discuss mergers and acquisitions (how to manage and survive them), project management, sales, customer service, effective workplace communication, management, handling rapid personal and organizational change and other topical business issues.
He has served or is currently serving as a board member of the International Association of Facilitators, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Management Association, American Society of Training and Development, Institute of Management Consultants, American Society of Association Executives, Meeting Professionals International and National Speakers Association. Chris is an award-winning Toastmaster's International Competition speaker. He recently participated in the Fortune 500 Annual Management Forum as a speaker, panelist and seminar leader.
Chris has distinguished himself professionally by serving multiple corporations as manager and trainer of sales, operations, project management, IT, customer service and marketing professionals. Included among those business leaders are Prudential Insurance, Sprint, BayBank (now part of Bank of America), US Health Care and Marriott Corporation.
He has assisted these organizations in mergers and acquisitions, facilitating post-merger and acquisition integration, developing project management, sales, customer service and marketing strategies, organizing inbound and outbound call center programs, training and development of management and new hires, and fostering corporate growth through creative change and innovation initiatives.
Chris holds degrees in management studies and organizational behavior from Boston University. He has traveled to 22 countries and 47 states in the course of his career.
Instructor
Chris DeVany
