DEVELOP A

WINNING STRATEGY

Develop a Winning Strategy

Our Develop a Winning Strategy session is a facilitated and highly interactive session for your executive and management team.

It takes a full day and includes pre-workshop activity and follow-up discussions afterwards.

The workshop:

Hones your executive team's strategic thinking skills and guides them to 'see' the world and the future that you want to create as a company.
Helps your team to identify the strategic goals that will define the story of your company's future.
Identifies what you do and don't know to be able to plan with more confidence and so enable you to confidently tackle the right markets with the right products and services.
Simplifies the process of setting objectives, generating operational plans and developing your tactics.

If required, this workshop can be expanded to include sessions covering a wide range of areas; we can go deeper and / or broader. We can also build in 'team development' activities.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war and then seek to win

Sun Tzu - Art of War

Strategy: Grand and Not-so-grand

Strategy is the achievement of goals through the wise use of resources and recognition of challenges.

While that definition can be applied to all aspects and levels of the business, there needs to be an overarching corporate grand strategy.

Strategy, whether grand or not-so-grand, needs to answer the questions: “where are we going and why, who are we, what do we believe in, and what are we prepared to do to achieve our goals?”

The problem we see is that many people (initially) see strategy as a mechanical process that magically gives them a prioritised list of objectives and activities to achieve some goal – a goal that the organisation isn’t too clear on in the first place.

Most strategic discussions we hear are actually operational and tactical in nature; that crucial first step of bringing one clear vision of the future to the whole management team is often missing.

And we know that because when we ask some simple questions about it, we get many different answers. If your execs are all working towards different things, what is that doing to your effectiveness and efficiency?

So, we need to do something about that.

Our Develop a Winning Strategy workshop:

What to Expect

Our workshop is an intense full one-day* session for your whole exec or management team, and it is carried out away from all the distractions of the day-to-day.

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Planning and Preparation

► Prior to the workshop, there is a small amount of preparation needed by participants to help get them all oriented.

► We ask that your whole exec / management team attend and that while in the meeting, you arrange for your

► We ask that your whole exec / management team attend and that while in the meeting, you arrange for your calendars to have the day completely free of interruptions or distractions (ie leave phones outside of the meeting (room).

calendars to have the day completely free of interruptions or distractions (ie leave phones outside of the meeting

calendars to have the day completely free of interruptions or distractions (ie leave phones outside of the meeting (room).

room).

► Refreshments and lunch should be arranged for the meeting room (this keeps attendees on message)

► Refreshments and lunch should be arranged for the meeting room (this keeps attendees on message) and sometimes, what you'd like to be good at. This includes more than just your product or service.

and sometimes, what you'd like to be good at. This includes more than just your product or service.

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During the Workshop

► You will experience the ‘coming together’ of your executive management team as you align around your goals,

► You will experience the ‘coming together’ of your executive management team as you align around your goals, values and overall purpose.

values and overall purpose.

► We will guide you through an exploration of your strategic intent. Many participants find this challenging work, we

► We will guide you through an exploration of your strategic intent. Many participants find this challenging work, we will come across many unknowns or conflicting views, we will highlight assumptions and gaps that individuals had about what should be a single shared vision – these are all very important to identify and often cannot be resolved there and then.

will come across many unknowns or conflicting views, we will highlight assumptions and gaps that individuals had

about what should be a single shared vision – these are all very important to identify and often cannot be resolved

there and then.

► By the end of the session, you will have a good shared understanding of where you are heading as a company,

► By the end of the session, you will have a good shared understanding of where you are heading as a company, what is important to you, and what you need to achieve over what timescale as you prepare to create the future you want.

what is important to you, and what you need to achieve over what timescale as you prepare to create the future

you want.

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After the Workshop

► We will provide you with a record of the discussion. This will include recommendations and identification of gaps

► We will provide you with a record of the discussion. This will include recommendations and identification of gaps that will need further work. This document will provide the basis for your ongoing strategic and operations plans

- we can work further with you on those if you wish.

that will need further work. This document will provide the basis for your ongoing strategic and operations plans

- we can work further with you on those if you wish.

► Opportunity for short follow-on sessions to explore some areas further and provide clarification for the team as

► Opportunity for short follow-on sessions to explore some areas further and provide clarification for the team as the implications of the overall vision are felt.

the implications of the overall vision are felt.

* We can run this as a 2-day event for management retreats - in which case we can build in additional sessions covering a wide range of areas; we can go deeper and / or broader. We can also build in 'team development' activities. Ask us.

Your Next Step

If you would like to chat informally about whether this program is for you, click here to arrange a time for us to connect.

We will usually respond within 24 hours.

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