Strategic Performance Plan

Week 1 Discussion 2:

8 Steps of the Strategic Performance Plan

To prepare for this Discussion:

Review this week’s Learning Resources, especially:

McCabe, L., & Lindsay, M. (2018). The Big Four’s leap of faith: The Big Four are developing capabilities far beyond accounting and auditing. How did they upturn the consulting business? Acuity, 5(1), 32–37. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=128936572&site=ehost-live

Oldham, B. (2018). Performance consulting: The ideal tool for ensuring a project adds real value. Human Resources Magazine, 23(1), 22–23. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=130464636&site=ehost-live

Assignment:

Summary Addendum to the 8 Steps of the Strategic Performance Plan

Using the articles; The Big Four’s leap of faith: The Big Four are developing capabilities far beyond accounting and auditing. How did they upturn the consulting business? by McCabe & Lindsay (2018) and Performance consulting: The ideal tool for ensuring a project adds real value by Oldham (2018), please review the eight steps that are outlined for performance consulting.

· Develop a summary addendum to the 8 Steps of the Strategic Performance Plan

· You have been tasked to add a 9th step to this plan

· Discuss what your additional step would be to ensure a more robust strategic performance plan

· Create a specific rationale and outline where your additional step would fall in the plan.

· Support your viewpoints on the critical difference between the changes in performance consulting from the required reading

· Share your insights with your classmates. Please ensure that you respond to a minimum of two other learners within this discussion.