Turnaround Planning And Execution

Turnaround Planning & Execution is a leadership-critical discipline that enables organizations to restore performance quickly, protect value, and rebuild stakeholder confidence when results, operations, or governance fall below expectations. This course provides an executive-level, end-to-end approach to diagnosing the true drivers of underperformance, setting clear priorities, aligning leadership and teams around measurable outcomes, and delivering rapid improvements while managing risk, communication, and change fatigue. Participants will learn how to translate strategy into actionable initiatives, establish practical milestones, define accountable ownership, and track progress through performance dashboards and decision rhythms that maintain momentum. The program addresses common challenges such as unclear problem definitions, competing priorities, resistance to change, resource constraints, and urgency-driven decision errors, while also highlighting the opportunity to strengthen culture, simplify operating models, and embed stronger controls and continuous improvement practices. By focusing on clarity of goals, disciplined execution, and time-bound results, the course equips leaders to deliver sustainable recovery and prevent recurrence through stronger governance and operational excellence.

Senior managers, directors, and functional leaders responsible for performance recovery; transformation and change leaders; operations and project leaders overseeing critical delivery; finance, strategy, and performance management professionals; risk, governance, and compliance leaders; HR and organizational development leaders supporting major change; program and portfolio managers accountable for cross-functional execution.

• Accelerates performance recovery through disciplined prioritization and execution governance.

• Improves decision quality under pressure using clear data, roles, and escalation paths.

• Reduces operational and financial risk through structured controls and contingency planning.

• Strengthens leadership alignment and accountability across functions and levels.

• Increases stakeholder confidence through consistent communication and visible progress.

• Embeds sustainable performance management routines to prevent future decline.

• Gain a practical end-to-end methodology for planning and delivering turnarounds.

• Improve ability to lead under urgency while maintaining control and clarity.

• Build stronger skills in prioritization, stakeholder management, and execution tracking.

• Enhance capability to design governance structures that drive accountability.

• Develop confidence in managing resistance, uncertainty, and change fatigue.

• Apply tools to sustain improvements beyond the initial recovery phase.

Duration: 5 days
Format: Classroom / Online / Blended