Run a session with leaders to secure their support for your system. Use this once you've surfaced challenges and opportunities through workshops if leadership hasn't been present in those sessions. Leadership alignment ensures goals, scope, and expectations are clear, and creates a supportive environment for the system to grow.
Leadership Alignment
How to
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Identify leaders of influence
Run a Influence Mapping session to identify key stakeholders that would be influential in supporting your system. Don't just focus on leaders already 'bought in', talk to people who are also against or neutral to understand and support your case.
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Frame the session
Ground the discussion with a Hypothesis Statement or outputs from the System Vision Workshop if leadership wasn't in attendance.
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Share opportunities and risks
Present highlights from Risk Forecasting or RAIDs Workshop to make the case real.
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Agree on goals
Facilitate a conversation about what leaders want the system to achieve and what success looks like to them.
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Define scope and resources
Discuss what's realistic given the current maturity, funding, and team support.
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Capture alignment
Document decisions on goals, scope, and resources. Feed this into your Business Case if needed.
Prep faster: Draft talking points for different leadership concerns and generate follow-up communications. Have someone check tone and accuracy.