Today I want to share a sneaky, sneaky exercise that we use to make strategy sessions more effective. See if this can help you! The basic premise is that you sneak up on the big, challenging strategic questions that can be intimidating to tackle by not disclosing what you’re doing. I know, it’s sneaky!
Sneaky Strategy Session Exercise
While transparency is usually the best policy, in this approach you just get people to generate the relevant information about their business, in a lower pressure way. You ease them into it! Later, you show them that the previous discussion was actually the fodder for creating a new positioning statement or revised mission, etc., and it’s less scary because they’ve already half finished it. Check out the video for more details.
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