CO-CREATE THE FUTURE
Strategy Workshops
Your team and their ideas, brought together in a new way to find the best path forward.
Many of us learn by doing. This makes strategy workshops a great way to codify the new insight and strategy approaches you’re trying to implement, or to take new frameworks for a test-drive before you roll them out across your organization.
At Sequent, we’ve learned what works and what doesn’t – through two decades of experience working with strategic management processes, both within and as a consultant for some of the world’s largest and most successful corporations. Here are some highlights:
How to guarantee failure:
- Allow one individual or team to dominate strategy activities, without involving the stakeholders whose buy-in would make it successful
- Assume that all leaders have similar levels of familiarity with, and experience using, the body of knowledge and practices of strategy
- Interpret lackluster participation in strategy discussions as stemming from the absence of strategic acumen, or a low desire to influence strategy
How to increase your odds of success:
- Promote collaboration between the key leaders whose teams will execute the strategy, to incorporate all perspectives and earn their support
- Level the playing field through resources that ensure all of the members of your strategy team to have a comparable grasp on the topic, and by giving them a shared strategy “lexicon” to communicate wit
- Engage a neutral third party to facilitate early discussions and ensure equitable participation from all groups
The workshops described below can help on both these fronts. They’ve been developed with c-suite officers and senior executives in mind, but will benefit any customer-focused leader with an eye on career growth.
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