You want a strategy workshop to make the most out of people's time. You don’t want people walking away believing their time was wasted. Or even worse, that nothing was accomplished and there is another meeting needed.
The Easiest Ways To Keep A Strategy Workshop Feeling Safe
You want everyone to participate in your strategy workshop.
You’ve gotten everyone together for a strategy workshop, but no one seems to be engaged or willing to share their thoughts and opinions. It’s like pulling teeth. You work really hard to get people to openly participate, but it seems like it’s of little use. People seem to feel unsafe speaking up. You are feeling confused, frustrated and emotionally drained from all this work.
The Most Important Part Of A Strategy Workshop
You want to make sure the strategy ACTUALLY gets executed.
You’ve gone through all the work of creating and delivering a strategy workshop. But now there are still things that are unknown. Who is doing what? What tasks are involved? When will these be done by? And so on. When a strategy doesn’t get executed you feel deflated. Like all of the work was for nothing.
How To Run A Lean Strategy Workshop
Lead your team through a successful strategy workshop.
Running strategy workshops is a bumpy process. There is a lot to consider and working with groups of people can be messy. People want different things. Some people talk a lot while others stay quiet. It's very easy to go down unproductive rabbit holes.
How To Best Prepare For A Strategy Workshop (Using psychological safety as the main example)
How to feel prepared for a strategy workshop/meeting.
Developing a strategy with your team can feel overwhelming. It's difficult to know where to start and there are a lot of things to consider. People want different things out of the strategy session. Different personalities bump up against each other. It’s difficult to articulate the purpose of the strategy workshop.
Strategy workshops can take a long time to develop and end up with few outcomes. You end up needing another meeting, and another, and another. This causes people to feel impatient, frustrated, and confused. This leaves the leader of the meeting feeling hopeless and emotionally drained.