Why Most Strategy Sessions Fail, and How the Best Ones Get It Right
Most strategy sessions feel productive but change nothing—the best are designed to create clarity, conviction, and real momentum.
Capabilities Development
You have an amazing team, and they need to hone their skills in innovation and growth methods. They need to up their game and continue to grow as leaders. Use focused sessions to accelerate their learning.
- Clearly articulate the goals of training
- Understand the gaps with a clear assessment of the team
- Tailor learning with modules focused on what your team needs
- Transform knowledge into felt wisdom, so your team immediately has greater impact every day
Cultural Transformation
Your team understands the direction, but they need to behave differently every day in order to succeed. They need to get out into the world, challenge the status quo, become more Future Focused, and gain empathy for their stakeholders.
- Articulate clearly the shift leaders need to make in order to succeed
- Step into an experience designed specifically for your team
- Get out of the theoretical with exposure to a mix of stakeholders, speakers, site visits, and other activities
- Gain empathy for all your stakeholders so people make better decisions every day
- Align on a new direction and make commitments for change
Executive Alignment
When you’re trying to get everyone aligned, it can feel like one step forward and two steps back. And it takes months. You need a quicker and more effective way. You need an offsite facilitated by those who know how to get everyone moving in one direction, and quickly.
- Uncover the underlying shift leaders need to make to act differently
- Step into an experience designed specifically for your team
- Get out of the theoretical with exposure to a mix of stakeholders, speakers, site visits, and other activities
- Gain empathy for all your stakeholders so people make better decisions every day
- Align on implications and next steps
Innovation Management
You don’t want to be the innovation group that gets shut down in a couple of months. Get smart about what you’re choosing to work on and how to drive the most impact. Then, to be successful, figure out the most effective operating model for your team.
- Get clarity by identifying a mandate of your team
- Create the criteria for how to prioritize opportunities
- Prioritize the types of things your team should be working on
- Discover the culture & team you need to succeed
- Plan for how to connect with other teams
- Put in place the right processes to enable innovation
- Define what success look like with the right metrics
Rapid Experimentation
Don’t bet it all on one idea. Iteratively de-risk an idea by testing the most critical assumptions in a low-cost way before investing in larger-scale pilots.
- Define the biggest assumptions underpinning the business with a reverse income statement
- Address critical assumptions individually with a low-cost experimentation plan
- Learn from specific experiments designed to help you refine the concept
- Emerge with a refined concept that has its most critical assumptions validated and is more likely to succeed in the market
Jump has had a profound impact on our leadership team. Our work together has impacted how we solve problems and has helped accelerate a number of key initiatives.”
James White CEO
Jamba Juice
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