Strategic Planning Retreats

A retreat is the ideal opportunity to take a break from the all-consuming daily pressures of the office, to focus on the real work of the senior management team. A retreat provides time to:

  • Clarify your corporate vision
  • Discuss strategy
  • Make key decisions
  • Set your priorities
  • Establish action plans

Each retreat is planned by working closely with you to understand your objectives, your participants, and your business situation. An event is then customized to meet your specialized issues. A sampling of topics suited to a retreat can be:

  • Values/Vision/Mission Statement Formation
  • Realignment of Senior Staff Responsibilities
  • Targeted Growth Planning for Account Managers and Executives
  • Location Manager Retreats featuring both academics and practical skills
  • Open Dialogue Events - To clear the air and renew enthusiasm within teams
  • Communications improvement workshops
  • Solving of one complex system issue in your organization, such as special order processing, delivery processes, reducing inventory losses, etc
  • Succession strategy planning within a leadership team

Over the course of three days, the participants will begin by assessing their goals and challenges in an environment that promotes open and honest dialogue. Next, the conversations are guided through various solutions and toward rich creative possibilities; and finally your team will make strategic and lasting tactical plans for action.

An experienced facilitator and insightful coach, Ken Wilbanks can keep a group of powerful personalities focused on the declared objectives, while enabling the spontaneous creative moments that are sparked by intensive, meaningful discussion. As a long-time LBM industry expert, he has the depth of experience to insure that the newly created strategic plans will be “real world”, can be implemented immediately, are measurable, and will work!

Contact Ken to discuss how a retreat could meet your organization’s needs and challenges.

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