Visioning
Strategy

Strategy Safari

Workshop
7 hours

Understand the external factors shaping your business

Set off on a strategic exploration to survey your industry, consider competitors and customers, and plan new objectives and initiatives.
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In Detail

This workshop will help your leadership team analyse your company, industry and surrounding factors, and will help you look ahead to identify upcoming opportunities and threats.

We'll then spend time shaping a number of strategic scenarios and brainstorm your response to each of them, to help you plan a successful future for your organisation.

Finally we'll assess and evaluate your ideas, prioritising according to impact and resources. You'll come away with concrete actions in order to progress your strategy.

Understand External Factors

Understand External Factors

See what's shaping your results and how to position your team to respond. Identify opportunities and threats to inform new objectives and initiatives.
Alignment on Goals & Priorities

Alignment on Goals & Priorities

Team alignment and understanding of goals and priorities, leading to improved collaboration and decision-making
Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning

By focusing on new objectives and initiatives, the team can identify areas for growth and innovation, set clear targets, and establish a roadmap for achieving them.
TESTIMONIAL
“Creative Huddle ran an offsite for our board to define our strategy for the coming years. It was incredibly helpful to have a skilled facilitator to help us analyse our business, clarify our thinking and challenge us to make decisions on our future direction. Everything was clearly summarised in a concise report afterwards, which helped us maintain momentum and take tangible outcomes from the day.”
Chris Peach
Chief Financial Officer
Munnelly Group

Outline

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SWOT

Visioning
CONTENT DETAIL
SWOT is a template to help you analyse an organisation. It's a simple template that guides you through a process of analysing the various Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats of your team, project or organisation.
OUTCOME
By listing points under each of these categories you will be able to get a better understanding of the current situation faced by your organisation. This enables you to plan moves that take advantage of your organisation’s strengths and opportunities, and implement strategies to mitigate weaknesses and threats.

PESTLE

Visioning
CONTENT DETAIL
PESTLE is a mnemonic for factors that drive and shape market trends and consumer behaviour. It stands for: Political, Environmental, Societal, Technological, Legal and Economic. Participants spend time analysing their business from the perspective of each of these factors.
OUTCOME
It can be really useful to understand and map out the wider context of the sector in which you operate, because these trends and changes will affect your business and your brand. This exercise can set you up for a strategic planning technique such as Scenario Planning.

Looking Ahead

Visioning
CONTENT DETAIL
A future-focused session that asks: what are your biggest priorities and events over the coming months? What's likely to happen and what can we do about it? Which relationships are strong - and which need work? What opportunities are we most excited and passionate about?
OUTCOME
Participants identify predictable events, situations and potential issues that they can factor into their plans for the next 6-12 months. Sometimes these offer opportunities to take advantage of by planning early; sometimes they enable problems to be mitigated before they occur.

Scenario Planning

Visioning
CONTENT DETAIL
Events will shape the future in many different ways, and it’s impossible to predict everything that will happen tomorrow, let alone 5 or 10 years in the future. One way to deal with this is to use Scenario Planning, first introduced by energy giant Shell in the 1970s.
OUTCOME
Participants create several different future scenarios to illustrate the varying ways current issues could play out. How can they prepare for each scenario? Which is preferred and why? Once you've envisioned a number of relevant potential futures, then you can think about how you might prepare for the challenges and uncertainties your business might face.

How Might We...?

Innovation Skills
CONTENT DETAIL
How Might We... is a way of starting a question to kick-start a discussion. The open-ended, optimistic phrasing is designed to encourage broad thinking. This technique was developed at P&G in the 1970s, and it has been used and promoted extensively by the design company IDEO.
OUTCOME
This is a useful technique to quickly generate ideas that get to the heart of the problem you're trying to solve. By using the positive starting point, you quickly focus on generating useful, helpful approaches that are more likely to work for your audience.

Easy High Impact

Planning
CONTENT DETAIL
Which of your ideas and projects should take priority? Which will offer the best return for the least resources? If some of your ideas look great but seem hard to achieve, can you simplify or streamline them so they take less resources or effort?
OUTCOME
This approach is great for working out priorities, identifying strengths and making decisions. It can also help you use constraints to focus your thinking. Teams find it really useful to get clarity on what's worth working on first, and what has the greatest potential.

Team To-Do List

Collaboration
CONTENT DETAIL
Most often used towards the end of a workshop, this simple activity aims to gather the various ideas, outputs and priorities from the session and help participants create a set of practical actions to take things forward.
OUTCOME
We help participants to come up with specific tasks or actions that they can take as a result of the workshop's discussions - assigning either individual or collective responsibilities, along with consideration of resources and deadlines.

In Detail

This workshop will help your leadership team analyse your company, industry and surrounding factors, and will help you look ahead to identify upcoming opportunities and threats.

We'll then spend time shaping a number of strategic scenarios and brainstorm your response to each of them, to help you plan a successful future for your organisation.

Finally we'll assess and evaluate your ideas, prioritising according to impact and resources. You'll come away with concrete actions in order to progress your strategy.

Strategy Safari

About our workshops

The informality of our workshops enables participants to relax, express themselves freely and find common ground with others. This lends itself perfectly to ideation and team-building by encouraging positive interactions and idea sharing.

Team Workshop
Strategy Tools & Techniques

Strategy Tools & Techniques

We’re avid collectors of useful approaches to spark new thinking and vibrant conversations. From SWOT to PESTLE, Stakeholder Mapping to Scenario Planning, we use the most relevant tools & techniques to fit your brief.
Expert Facilitation

Expert Facilitation

When the day comes, we’ll carefully and skilfully guide your participants through a series of sessions and discussions to achieve your aims. We design sessions to keep the engagement and energy high, making sure everyone gets the chance to contribute. We’ll wrap up with key points and actions, and can record everything in a report afterwards if required.
Industry Experience

Industry Experience

We’re fast learners and can quickly learn about the ins and outs of your company and competitive landscape. We’re good with technical content, and our facilitators have broad experience working with many clients in a wide range of industries.

What exactly is a Talkshop?

We're glad you asked! Simply put, a Talkshop is a cross between a talk and a workshop. They're short, punchy, thought-provoking sessions. We take a key concept and explain it clearly, then help your team explore it together to understand how it can help them in their work.

Team Workshop
Strategy Tools & Techniques

Strategy Tools & Techniques

We’re avid collectors of useful approaches to spark new thinking and vibrant conversations. From SWOT to PESTLE, Stakeholder Mapping to Scenario Planning, we use the most relevant tools & techniques to fit your brief.
Expert Facilitation

Expert Facilitation

When the day comes, we’ll carefully and skilfully guide your participants through a series of sessions and discussions to achieve your aims. We design sessions to keep the engagement and energy high, making sure everyone gets the chance to contribute. We’ll wrap up with key points and actions, and can record everything in a report afterwards if required.
Industry Experience

Industry Experience

We’re fast learners and can quickly learn about the ins and outs of your company and competitive landscape. We’re good with technical content, and our facilitators have broad experience working with many clients in a wide range of industries.

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