Why Do Companies Choose Strategic Offsites Group?
Managing Partner Bob Frisch shares what makes SOG unique, and how our expertise can be helpful for your firm.Â
Define Accountability In Your Organization
Don’t just ask who when defining accountability, ask what. Watch our team discuss how to clarify accountability within your organization.
Understanding Walls and Fences To Break Down Barriers to Growth
When a firm evaluates the barriers that bound the business, it can open up strategic space for the company. Watch Bob Frisch explain the concept of Walls and Fences.
What Is the Best Way to Start Planning a Strategy Meeting?
Watch our team explain the best way to start planning a strategy meeting – by establishing a clear set of objectives for the meeting.
Five Ingredients of an Impactful Pre-Read
Most meetings have extremely lengthy pre-reads that are not clearly integrated with the meeting or objectives.
Our Most Important Ground Rule for a Strategy Meeting
Watch our team explain why “Silence Denotes Consent” is so effective.
Use a Jellyfish to Cut People Off in Meetings
Strategic Offsites Group explains the right way to cut people off in meetings.
Use a Shot Clock to Keep Your Meetings On Time
A shot clock can keep meetings lively, focused, and sharp. Watch our team explain how to best use this simple yet effective tool to make your meetings more productive.
Offsite Meetings: Three Ways to Finish Every Event
Our team explains what to do to ensure you end a strategy offsite meeting just as productively as you start.
Talking About Platform Strategy: It's a Matter of Control
Platform strategy is one of today’s hottest topics for CEOs and Executive Teams. In our latest Practice Spotlight, we explore one conversation you and your team should be having upfront…
Corporate Boards: Strategy, Not Just Operations Review
Watch a video summarizing some key points from our presentation, “Five Strategy Conversations Every Board Should Have”, hosted by the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Arthur Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School.
What Are the Keys to a Successful Transformation Effort?
Learn how a successful transformation effort works with three key leadership steps: providing direction, taking feedback from the organization, and effectively coordinating the functions around a set of priorities.
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Offsites That Work
Of all the meetings top executives go to in a year, none is more important than the strategy off-site, where the most essential conversations for the future of the business occur. Yet it is the rare management team that can say its strategy off-site truly changed the way the business is run. At best, participants do some vague direction setting and work on team-building skills; at worst, they write off the retreat as a waste of time and resources. It needn’t be like that.
What It Takes to Run a Great Hybrid Meeting
As the pandemic eases and we resume gathering in person, hybrid meetings will become a permanent part of how organizations function. These meetings bring added complexity at the same time that our collective Covid-driven year of meeting virtually raised expectations for remote participation. We share eight best practices to help make your hybrid meetings more effective.
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.