Good to Great: Building a High-Performance Organisation

Course Overview

Most organisations plateau at competent. The interesting question is why a handful keep climbing — and whether their disciplines can be learned. Built around the research popularised by Jim Collins and grounded in Southern African case studies, this five-day programme examines what actually separates enduringly great organisations from merely good ones: disciplined people, disciplined thought and disciplined action. Delegates leave with a candid assessment of their own organisation and a realistic plan for closing the gap.

What You Will Achieve

• Diagnose honestly where your organisation sits on the good-to-great spectrum
• Apply the disciplined-people principle: getting the right people into the right seats before setting direction
• Confront brutal facts without losing faith in the end goal
• Identify your organisation's economic engine and the one thing it can do better than anyone
• Build a flywheel of consistent, compounding action rather than chasing dramatic turnarounds

Who Should Attend

Executives, general managers and senior leaders responsible for organisational performance — particularly those leading businesses that have stalled at 'good enough' and want a rigorous framework for the next level.

Course Outline

1. 01What the research actually says: separating evidence from management folklore
2. 02Level 5 leadership: ambition for the institution, not the individual
3. 03First who, then what: people decisions before strategy decisions
4. 04The Stockdale paradox: confronting brutal facts in your numbers
5. 05The hedgehog concept: finding your economic engine
6. 06A culture of discipline: freedom within a framework
7. 07Technology as an accelerator, never a starting point
8. 08The flywheel: building your organisation's momentum plan