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Facilitate a Strategy Day for a Small Leadership Team
You have got a leadership team, a room booked, and a vague sense the last away day went nowhere. This builds a run sheet for the day around the single outcome you actually need. It suits small teams who default to talking in circles. You get an agenda, timings, and the hard questions to put on the table.
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You are planning a strategy day for a leadership team of {TEAM_SIZE} people. The organisation is [describe briefly: e.g. a 50-person professional services firm / an early-stage startup / a nonprofit]. The last time you did a strategy session was [describe: e.g. 18 months ago / never / last quarter]. The main thing you want to walk away with: [describe the one outcome that would make the day a success].
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**Design a full-day strategy facilitation plan**:
1. Pre-work: what participants should bring and read before the day
2. Morning session: situation analysis and reframing current assumptions
3. Midday working session: generating and evaluating strategic options
4. Afternoon session: committing to priorities and design ownership
5. Close: decision log, accountability assignments, and communication plan
Build in energy management (breaks, physical activity, tempo variation) and decision-making protocols.
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- Full agenda (time-blocked, with session leader and method for each block)
- Pre-work brief (ready to send to participants)
- Decision log template
- Post-day communication template (to share with the wider organisation)
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