Strategic Leadership

Develop leaders who drive results by translating strategy into meaningful work.

Drive Consistent Results Through Strategic Business Leadership

High-performing organizations that deliver strong, repeatable business results share one thing in common — a deeply-ingrained culture of strategic leadership. Strategic leaders don’t simply focus on meeting immediate goals or capitalizing on short-term opportunities. They also connect their team’s daily work with a long-term company vision that drives consistent growth and lasting impact.

Strategic business leadership requires a unique set of skills. Your leaders must be adept at translating high-level strategic objectives into prioritized, measurable, team-specific goals. They must rally their people around mission-critical goals by effectively communicating why those goals matter and how their work contributes to the company’s success. And they must help their teams anticipate and respond to shifts in strategic focus so they continue to invest in what matters most.

When you develop your leaders’ strategic skills, they can help your business achieve its most important goals again and again. FranklinCovey’s principle-based content and proven execution system will empower your leaders to define strategic goals, align their teams, and dramatically improve performance.

Key Strategic Leadership Skills

Leaders who drive consistent business results bring a strategic mindset to goal-setting, rally people behind a clear vision, and help their teams focus on top-priority work.

Strategic Thinking

Identifies strategic goals with clear, measurable targets

Vision-Setting

Clearly communicates strategic goals and why they matter

Strategic Focus

Focuses on the most important goal amidst competing priorities

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Impact Your Organization’s Results: Turn Average Employees Into High Performers

Learn how to move the middle 60% of your average performers toward the higher performance level of the top 20%.

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The 4 Disciplines of Execution®: Execute Your Must-Win Strategies

Learn how to identify the one thing your team needs to do to deliver breakthrough business results.

Customer Stories

PepsiCo Food

Building Empathic Leaders Across the Organization

PepsiCo Foods North America desired a consistent leadership training with content that progressed over time. Curating content from FranklinCovey’s All Access Pass®, they launched their CORE Leadership program to build empathic leaders at all levels of their organization.

Vibe Group

Learning and Development at Scale

Vibe Group is a fast-growing IT staffing consultancy. Starting from two founders in 2011, they rapidly grew to 300+ internal and 1,000 external employees today. See how they partnered with FranklinCovey to scale up their learning and development program to support this rapid growth.

SM Energy

Building a Culture of Personal Leadership to Retain Talent

SM Energy is focused on increasing engagement and retaining talent through creating a culture of personal leadership. With the help of FranklinCovey’s All Access Pass®, leaders are talking a new language, building collaborative relationships, and discussing how to achieve goals more effectively.

Client Spotlight: Global Staffing & Recruiting

Building Culture for Global Growth

A global staffing and recruiting company is focused on creating a framework to enhance their culture. With the help of FranklinCovey’s The 4 Essential Roles of Leadership™, employees from around the world are learning a common language, finding common threads, and getting to know and understand each other.

The Power of the Journey

Lasting behavior change comes from the inside out. Who people are, and how they view the world, impacts how they engage and lead others. Our Impact Journeys combine our exclusive content, expert consultants, and powerful technology to help people change both their mindset and their behavior.

Explore a sample Impact Journey excerpt below.

Developing Vision and Strategy for Your Team

  • 01 Excelerators

    Create a Shared Vision and Strategy®

    Every great leader needs to communicate their vision in such a way to encourage others to help them achieve their vision.

    Timing: 30-60 min

  • 02 Jhana

    Five Reasons Your Team Needs a Vision

    There are plenty of good reasons to start thinking big today.

    Timing: 10 min

  • 03 Video

    Setting Goals for a New Team

    Watch one leader’s experience with a newly formed team at his company.

    Timing: 2 min

  • 04 Jhana

    10 Ways to Motivate

    This article will help you tap into some of the deeper sources of motivation driving today’s teams.

    Timing: 10 min