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The challenges in strategy workshops

Questions that are often implicit in strategy workshops, and when breakout groups are to develop action plans together, are:

• Which approach is the correct one, or which positioning in the market?
• Do we just have different perspectives on the same thing or are we moving in completely “different worlds”?
• How can we use our differences as a powerful resource to move forward together?
• How do we turn our different perspectives into a shared strategy?

Relevant questions

In our strategy workshops, we address the following issues, among others:

1. What developments are in store for the company? What will be the main influencing factors to which the company will have to respond?
   • What strategies have helped solve similar challenges in the past? Which ones are applicable for the future?
2. Which fields of action result from this?
3. Which goals and sub-goals do we need to achieve?
4. What needs to be considered during realization and implementation?

Risk of failure

Many group strategic tasks fail due to the challenge of combining the different perspectives, existing competencies and valuable experience of employees in a meaningful way and harnessing them in a lean but effective strategy process.

“Second-best solutions”

This has consequences:

1. The “solutions” are then often based on the “lowest common denominator” of all those involved.
   The result: there is no strong implementation energy among those involved. In the end, the jointly developed action plan is only implemented half-heartedly or not at all. This is a common fate of strategy processes.
2. Content experts from the organization are not or only insufficiently “heard” and integrated.
   Companies pay a high price for this:
   • Valuable experience remains unused
   • The results of a strategy workshop fall short of the company’s actual potential
   • Loss of motivation of those involved
   • The next strategy process will be all the more difficult and “tough“.

Multi-perspectivity as a key factor

Der “Schlüssel” liegt darin, die unterschiedlichen Perspektiven und Erfahrungshintergründe der unterschiedlichen Stakeholder in den Strategieprozess zu integrieren und daraus passgenaue und nachhaltige Lösungen zu entwickeln.

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Ansatz und Vorgehen

The best strategies are created when the relevant knowledge and experience carriers work together on them.

Therefore, as consultants and strategy facilitators, we first clarify:

1. What is the context and history?
2. What previous experience do you have with strategy workshops?
3. What knowledge is already available, do you need additional external resources?
4. Which experienced stakeholders need to be involved?
5. Do we also need additional internal perspectives in order to develop the best possible solutions?
6. Who else needs to be “on board” for the strategy implementation to succeed later?

Was es dazu braucht, sind erfahrene Berater oder Strategie-Moderatoren

• with a tried and tested “methodology toolkit”
• the appropriate methodologies
• lots of consulting and facilitation experience in strategy workshops
• a feel for group dynamics and the right “timing” for finding consensus, even in complex situations with diverging interests.

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Methodologies

In our consulting and facilitation practice, we draw on a tried-and-tested toolbox of methods to enable groups to do this,

Proven formats such as

1. Workshop methodologies with which we gradually develop strategic success factors and tailor-made solutions
2. Strategy methodologies of the “St. Gallen School”
3. a proven strategies developed by large-group formats in which you develop strategic goals and action plans in large groups in just one day
4. Classic large-group processes such as Real Time Strategic Change or “Future Conference/Future Search”
5. Management workshops in which we identify strategic fields of action together with top management, develop a hierarchical goal framework and an action plan and concrete agreements for implementation

Our strategic approach: a perfect fit!

Our strategy work is always “tailor-made”. This is all the more important in times of “VUCA”, dynamic markets and disruptive changes in the environment.

These proven strategy designs and procedures or our effective strategy model are suitable for“strategy navigation“.

Here is a brief overview:

We explain the background to our strategy model in great detail here.

Sustainable results within a short period

As you can see, we work with very different strategic methodologies and approaches. Depending on your starting point and objectives, the required depth of processing and the time available, we will suggest a suitable and effective approach.

And, of course, we always draw up a coordinated action plan, specific “to do’s” and further steps.

Integrate important resources

It is important to involve the right people with the necessary “know-how”. During the preparation phase, we therefore ask questions such as:

With this tried-and-tested approach, we always try to involve critics and doubters in the strategy process. Very often, doubts and reservations conceal essential information that is important for the development of a viable and sustainable solution.

Benefits, advantages and effects

Customized strategy designs

In our strategy workshops, we adapt our approach to the previously defined goals and the respective point of departure. The group of participants also plays an important role: faster progress is sometimes possible with management teams than with employees “from the bottom ranks”.

Our strategy workshops are therefore always individually tailored to your situation.

Our experienced strategy facilitators

• always have “Plan B” to hand,
• can react professionally to unforeseen challenges
• and achieve the agreed targets in every case.

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