A strategy offsite for your leadership team
“Everyone has a different idea of where we're going.”
A day or two with your leadership team to agree one direction. Your leaders make the calls, and you lead them. I run the room, and bring in what I've seen elsewhere when it helps.
How it runs
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A conversation with each leader before the offsite.
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The offsite: one or two days, in person.
3
If it needs more time, working sessions over the following weeks and months.
You leave with
A short strategy your leaders agreed together, and the first decisions that follow from it.
Case studies
A strategy reset that broke a risky dependency
A seed-stage SaaS startup of about 30 people reset its strategy in a one-day offsite, broke its dependence on a single platform, and pivoted fast when that platform changed.
From strategy handed down to strategy owned together
A Series D tech scale-up that had outgrown its OKR process got its leaders owning the strategy together, and later doubled revenue and made its first profit.
From e-commerce playbook to media strategy
A UK consumer startup asked for OKRs. We checked the business model first, found it was really a media business, and drafted OKRs to match.
Try it yourself first
Strategy
The One Page Strategy
A free one-page strategy template: four parts, half a page, and a way to write it with your whole leadership team.
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1-2-4-All: a brainstorming method where everyone is heard
A simple way to brainstorm with a group of up to 20, so the quiet voices get heard and the best ideas come out. About fifteen minutes.
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Often run together: OKR workshop · Product vision workshop
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Richard runs strategy offsites where the leadership team agrees one direction, and the leaders make the calls.
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