Inspire the Future: Strategic Planning Where Your Team Builds the Plan
Inspire the Future is the Learn2 strategic planning workshop where your team builds the plan they execute. Canadian Olympic Committee produced 14 Gold Medals using this participant-driven approach.
Your senior team builds the strategic plan they will execute, not the one consultants hand them.
- Level
- All levels, executives to new graduates, and intact teams
- Group size
- Any group size
- Time
- Anywhere from 60 minutes to 2 days
- Format
- In person · Hybrid
- Languages
- English
- Business outcome
- Alignment, Execution
Proof
14 Gold Medals across 6 Games
Canadian Olympic Committee built its planning foundation with this participant-driven approach
How we measure
The team leaves with a written action plan, each item tied to a name and a date. Thirty days later we check which items moved and report that back to the sponsor.
Engage Your Team in strategic Planning for the Future of Your Company Works
In the Inspire the Future workshop participants will prepare for your organization’s future in the form of a strategic plan with clear direction. Groups will work together in this leadership development experience to define how to avoid obstacles, define the behaviors to achieve the plan, complete the action plans, and identify the milestones/metrics to inspire the behaviors and actions required from team members.
How the Strategic Planning Workshop works
Put the right people in the room – which is often everybody.
Listen to all team members vent about the past, then accurately examine the present
Envision the future clearly so team members can latterly see where they are going.
Create a 12-month action plan to get there
Review progress at 30, 60 and 90 days to celebrate progress
Reprioritize efforts as necessary.
Take massive action in the present that is aligned with the desired future business goals
Anticipate and overcome obstacles before they slow down progress
Define the behaviors that construct versus destroy progress
Achieve massive results – even leapfrogging the competition
Find out what your team needs next
Complete the 3-minute Learn2 leader survey. We will send back a short read on how to support your team right now and the development they most likely need next.
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What Participants Say
“Align everyone’s efforts to achieve incredible results for the company”
What Your Team Takes Away
Listen to all team members vent about the past, then accurately examine the present
Envision the future clearly so team members can latterly see where they are going.
Create a 12-month action plan to get there
Review progress at 30, 60 and 90 days to celebrate progress
Reprioritize efforts as necessary.
Align everyone’s efforts to achieve incredible results for the company
Take massive action in the present that is aligned with the desired future business goals
Anticipate and overcome obstacles before they slow down progress
Define the behaviors that construct versus destroy progress
Achieve massive results – even leapfrogging the competition
Take the 3-minute leader survey →
Frequently Asked Questions
- What happens in a strategic leadership workshop?
- Your senior team does the work in the room. People name the real barriers out loud, examine where the business is now, and picture where it needs to be. The group then picks the three to five priorities that matter and writes a 12-month action plan against them. Everyone leaves with the specific moves they own and the dates they own them by.
- Why do most strategic plans never get executed?
- Because the people accountable for delivery did not author the plan. A plan handed down from consultants gets polite agreement and quiet abandonment. When your team builds the plan itself, the commitment is already there on the day the session ends. The Canadian Olympic Committee used this participant-driven approach and produced 14 Gold Medals across 6 consecutive Games.
- Who could be in the room?
- The people who will carry the plan, which is often everybody. Senior leaders alone produce a plan the next layer down has to be sold on. Widening the room removes that sales job. If your group is larger than a boardroom, we design the session so every voice still lands.
- How is this different from a planning offsite that produces a deck?
- A deck is a byproduct here, not the point. The outcome is alignment you can hear in the next Monday meeting: agreed priorities, named owners, defined behaviors that build progress instead of stalling it. Participants also agree what they will stop doing, which is the part most planning sessions skip.
- What keeps the plan alive after the session?
- Built-in reviews at 30, 60 and 90 days. The group celebrates what shipped, reprioritizes what changed, and confronts what slipped while it is still small. Milestones and metrics get set in the session itself, so the review has something real to measure against.
- How long does it take?
- Most senior teams need one to two days together, sized to the number of people and the size of the decision. We design the agenda around your actual barriers before anyone walks in, so the time in the room goes to deciding rather than to warming up.
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