This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

A strategy that has not been converted into a structure, a budget and a set of metrics is not a strategy. It is a document with a nice cover. Here are 286 tools to convert it: 177 ready-to-use procedures, templates, checklists and matrices, 91 models and methods, 17 services shown on screen and a strategy table map.

Open a lecture, take the strategy table map, and place your current priorities on it.

Where strategies die

Strategy is written at an offsite and filed. The structure stays as it was, the budget follows last year, nobody owns the indicators, and the first crisis replaces the plan with firefighting.

What changes after this course

Strategy comes from a prepared session, the organisation is designed around it, the financial model and budget support it, and indicators show whether it is working.

What is inside: 286 tools, counted lecture by lecture

You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.

• 45 downloadable resources: lecture presentations plus 1 working file
• 177 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
• 49 step-by-step procedures: five-stage strategic planning, strategic session facilitation, five-step organizational design, critical success factor metric mapping
• 45 templates and sample documents: two-day strategic session agenda, strategy implementation plan, goals-to-design-criteria table, strategy map
• 33 checklists: bad strategy diagnosis, mission statement, organizational design selection, KPI quality
• 29 question lists and scripts: CEO strategic review, mission, vision and values review, operating model design, business process improvement
• 13 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: risk assessment register, power-interest matrix, CARVER matrix, RACI matrix
• 8 formulas and metric sets: executive function KPIs, cash conversion cycle, financial KPIs
• 91 models and methods explained with examples: SWOT analysis, Rumelt strategy kernel, balanced scorecard, Galbraith Star Model
• 17 services shown on screen, including Brightidea, IdeaScale, Miro, Jira and Asana

Where the tools are

The view from the top (4 sections, 126 tools). The role, direction, team, product, growth, crisis, change and technology.

The strategy session (2 sections, 54 tools). Preparation, running the session and executing the plan.

Organisational design (3 sections, 48 tools). Responsibility, integration, leadership layers and practice.

The financial model (4 sections, 35 tools). Mission and processes in financial terms, the strategy pyramid, budgeting, lean and scaling.

Measurement (3 sections, 64 tools). Success factors, designing indicators and implementation.

Who is teaching

I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe. I am also a founder and lead the strategy of my own academy.

At Wargaming, when we developed the HR strategy, every HR business partner first interviewed the business leaders with simple questions about expectations and problems. Then we went to an offsite and built the strategy, came back, presented it to the leaders and asked them to prioritise what mattered most and least. A strategy built with the people who must execute it is easier to turn into structure.

How to use the course

Start with the view from the top, then the strategy session, organisational design, the financial model and measurement. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

• 46 lectures across 17 sections, 25 hours
• 45 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and 1 working file
• 286 tools across the lessons, including 17 services shown on screen
• Lifetime access to all materials
• Active instructor support in the Q&A section
• A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

Write your company's three strategic priorities and who owns each, then open the first section. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.