EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Hosting an executive summit could be a structured way to touch base with stakeholders, conduct in-depth planning, figure out ways to close the gap between where you are now and your business goals, or map out future needs for the organization. It can also be the forum for generating or adjusting company mission, vision, goals, and priorities.

Business Planning Blitz

Develop a core business plan for your organization in an intensive planning session. Capture your mission, target market, objectives, strategy, marketing focus, sales goals, and financial targets in one focused burst of effort.

Participatory Strategic Planning

Do strategic planning with your whole team using a powerful collaborative process to develop a three-year Strategic Plan. The time-tested ToP (Technology of Participation) approach includes creating a vision, identifying underlying contradictions that block the vision, defining strategic directions, developing one–year objectives, and a 90–day implementation plan.

Inclusive Action Planning

Holding an intensive action planning session can be used to generate a comprehensive, time-bound plan for a critical project or major initiative. Skilled facilitation allows your key players to efficiently contribute to developing a detailed plan that spells out deliverables, timelines, and assigns tasks to specific owners. Great for activating a strategic plan, sparking a change effort, or kicking off a major initiative.

New Product/Service Innovation

Running an Innovation Lab is a powerful way to research and develop new product and service offerings. This method brings together internal experts and target customers to co-create new offerings that would be both appealing and practical.

Ideation Session

Hosting an innovation training is a great way to spark new ideas and inspire creative thinking. Your team will learn a specific innovation tool they can apply to generate new ideas. Great way to get the creativity ball rolling, figure out ways to stretch resources, or inspire new activities.

Problem-Solving Session

Holding a focused innovation session can help you solve a critical issue. Tap the expertise of your team to define the problem, generate ideas, work through potential solutions, and agree on next steps.

Think Tank

Use a Think Tank when you need to flesh out concrete actions around key initiatives, such as branding, marketing, and communications. This is a fun, fast-paced meeting designed to generate ideas, get input, and produce key results for an organization.

Team Building Retreat

A facilitated retreat allows staff to form and renew bonds, break through silos, share best practices, and ensure a cohesive approach to mission, vision, and goals. Great for forming and activating a new team.

Customer-Guided Development

Since integrating customers into the development process is critical for successful iterative design, get customers working with your development team in an intensive collaborative design session. Compared to traditional focus groups, this method will ensure real adaptations in your emerging product that are customer guided as well as creating a more cohesive team.

Marketing and Sales Innovation

Provide a structured forum for focusing on your organization’s marketing and sales efforts. Use a step-by-step innovation process to get past the way you’ve always done it and get to powerful ideas that will generate new results.