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Strategies are best developed by those tasked to execute them.
Many companies have the skills and expertise required to develop their own strategies, but could use assistance in designing and facilitating the overall process. With an effective approach that engages the right people, engenders the right conversations, and leverages the right data, senior executives can make strategic decisions together as a team and feel prepared to execute them.
Our Approach
Strategic planning efforts should be highly collaborative and alignment-focused. Over the course of strategic planning conversations, such as senior executive strategy offsites, budgeting/resource allocation meetings, and large leadership workshops and conferences, teams answer the following questions:
- What does success for the business look like in 3-5 years, and how will it be measured?
- How will the industry be different 3-5 years from now? What trends are driving the change?
- What actions are competitors taking today and likely to take in the future?
- What opportunities can be pursued to capitalize on changes in the market and/or improve the core business?
- What new capabilities and assets will be needed to realize those opportunities?
Each session leverages proprietary tools and frameworks that challenges the team and keeps them focused and honest. By the end of the process, executives clearly articulate their strategy in a way that can be easily communicated to the broader organization.
Once the strategy is announced, senior leaders charter the strategic initiatives needed to achieve it. Key cross-functional working sessions are facilitated to help leaders establish accountabilities, allocate resources, prioritize milestones and deliverables, and prepare for execution.
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Virtual Offsites That Work
Social distancing and travel restrictions have made it difficult, if not impossible, for organizations convene in person. Some controversial conversations need to be had now more than ever, so we need to learn how to do them virtually.
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Doing business on Zoom, WebEx, Teams and the like presents many challenges, but what’s been overlooked is that these virtual platforms also give managers an extraordinary set of “superpowers”: the ability to do things in meetings that were either unthinkable or enormously challenging in the old days of conference tables and flip charts.