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Strategy offsites and annual planning

An offsite that changes what happens on Monday.

Most offsites end with agreement and a slide deck. Ours end with decisions, owners and the first moves, designed so they land in the work.

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Where we have done this

Rooms where the decisions matter.

30+strategy workshops for Google and YouTube across Africa.
UNICEFannual planning and strategy sessions for offices in Africa.
UNHCR · WHOleadership retreats.

How we run them

Before, during and after the room.

Before

Listen first

We talk to leaders and to the people doing the work, so the offsite starts from what is really happening.

During

Decide together

A designed process: shared facts, scenarios for more than one future, honest conversation, and decisions the whole team owns.

After

Land it

Every decision leaves with an owner, a first move and a rhythm for checking progress, so the strategy shows up in the work.

Scenario and futures toolsAppreciative InquirySystems thinkingSix Thinking HatsProcess work and group dynamicsDesign Anything

Call us when

“We need someone to run this session and actually get a decision out of it.”
“This one is half strategy and half people, and we need the right people in a room to work it out.”
“We need them to own this, not be told about it.”

Formats

Shaped to the decision you need to make.

One day

Leadership alignment

For a team that needs to agree priorities and how it will work together on them.

Two days

Strategy offsite

For setting or resetting direction, with scenarios, choices and a plan to land them.

Annual

Planning cycle

For organisations that plan every year, from the first conversations to the cascade.

Let’s talk about the strategy you need to land.

Book a strategy call. We’ll talk through one priority your leadership team has set, where it’s getting stuck, and what it would take to move it.

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Or write directly to oran@gwork.io.