How do you facilitate a strategic workshop?

How do you facilitate a strategic workshop?

Blog: Strategic Planning

1. Gain your team’s commitment and buy-in to the process.
2. Ensure All Voices Are Heard.
3. Ensure key information is brought into the room.
4. Get your ideas on the table without overpowering the group.
5. Ensure that the plan components meet the quality checks.
6. Follow through and hold people accountable.

What is a strategic workshop?

Strategic Workshops are meetings that are designed to encourage a group of key people in your organisation to contribute to the strategic direction of the organisation in a relaxed and ‘safe’ environment.

What is strategy facilitation?

Strategic planning facilitation is when an outside facilitator is hired to work with an organization and the strategic planning meeting (and to possibly assist with implementation coaching). If you don’t have a facilitator, you are the facilitator.

How do you facilitate a strategic planning retreat?

Strategy retreat facilitation success is largely dependent upon preparation, expectation setting, and planning.

1. Have Clear Meeting Ownership.
2. Define Meaningful Objectives and a Practical Scope.
3. Identify Who Should Participate.
4. Prepare to Succeed.
5. Think Nemawashi.
6. Design a Structured Process.
7. Agree Upon Next Steps.

What is facilitating planning process?

Facilitation is a process in which a trained and experienced facilitator, who is not himself or herself a stakeholder, plans, develops, and conducts a structured and effective meeting that produces a clear result that is commonly understood and supported by all participants.

What are strategic planning activities?

Strategic planning is a process in which organizational leaders determine their vision for the future as well as identify their goals and objectives for the organization. The process also includes establishing the sequence in which those goals should fall so that the organization is enabled to reach its stated vision.

What are the facilitating planning processes?

How do you facilitate a project planning session?

1. Get the right participants. While having plenty of ideas can often be helpful when problem-solving, in the project planning phase, clear estimates and proposals are what’s necessary.
2. Define what are you hoping to achieve.
3. Create and circulate an agenda.
4. Keep a record.
5. Watch the clock.
6. Have a clear and concise wrap-up.

What do you need to facilitate?

To facilitate effectively, you must be objective and focus on the “group process.” That is, the ways that groups work together to perform tasks, make decisions and solve problems. [1] Good facilitation involves being impartial and steering the group so that its ideas and solutions flow.

What is workshopshop facilitation?

Workshop facilitation is the act of facilitating or guiding participants through a process of co-creation and active dialogue to help them reach a particular goal together.

How to prepare for a strategic planning workshop?

Include meeting purpose, objectives, agenda and preparation instructions in the invitation Send invites well ahead of time to allow for participants to prepare and clarify questions and expectations A great tool to facilitate the strategic planning workshop is the OGSM. Learn more about my introduction of OGSM here. Prepare workshop materials.

How to facilitate a business leader’s workshop?

You are facilitating on the business leader’s behalf. It may be OK to bring in your thoughts and ideas. But make sure you are on the same page and agreeable with her/his purpose and ideas for the workshop (It’ll potentially save you a lot of trouble and embarrassment later)

What are the qualities of a good workshop facilitator?

Just remember that what you have planned may not be what the workshop participants need the most, and when that’s the case, you’re better off staying open to their needs. Because as our CEO Ilkka likes to say, openness, honesty, and authenticity are the most important qualities of a skilled facilitator.