Stryke Consulting · Strategy workshop for leadership teams
The strategy workshop that ends with 3–5 must-win battles and OKRs
Two days with your leadership team. Day one builds a shared view of where you are and where you want to be, and chooses the few battles that close the gap. Day two turns them into company OKRs with owners, first actions and a review rhythm.
What your team leaves with
The workshop logic
From a shared view of today to a path of 3–5 must-win battles
Three questions carry the first day: where are we, where do we want to be, and what closes the gap. Everything the team writes, pitches and votes on serves one of them.
Create a common perspective of today
The team draws the company’s life line: milestones, highs and lows. Then the market: key drivers, competitors, customers. Facts first, opinions later.
Compare today with the future. Which topics have the highest leverage in closing the gap? Impact/effort, dot voting, leadership decision. Each battle gets a what, a why and a how.
Define future success
Brainwriting, sharing and a gallery walk. The team agrees on what success looks like in one, two and three years, from the core business to the new.
Day 1 defines the direction and the strategic priorities. Day 2 turns them into actionable company OKRs.
The activities
What happens in the room, hour by hour
Every block has one job and one method. Everyone writes before anyone speaks, options are pitched and voted on, and each discussion closes with a decision.
The activities are our proposal. In a one-hour prep session we tailor them to your team, your numbers and the decisions the workshop must make.
Is this the right format?
The strategy workshop and its two siblings
Three formats, one standard: senior people in the room, a clear process, and decisions by the end of the day.
Strategy workshop
Two days. You want a shared view of today, 3–5 must-win battles and company OKRs for the next quarter. This page.
Strategy offsite
Two days with more room for the future: Three Horizons, deliberate provocations, a stop list and a strategy on one page. Strategy offsite facilitation in six steps →
Leadership workshop
One day. The strategy is set and execution is not: alignment, decision rights and a steering rhythm. The one-day leadership workshop →
Who you work with
Senior partners, one in the lead and one challenging
One of us runs the process, the other works the content with your team. Both have sat on the client side of strategy and on the facilitator side of more than a thousand workshops.
Joern Steinz
Partner · Strategy execution and OKRs
Facilitating leadership teams since 2014, more than 60 OKR engagements and over 1.000 workshops. Formerly a consultant at Accenture and in corporate development at XING. MBA, EADA Business School Barcelona.
Oliver Pasdzior
Partner · Strategy and leadership
Over 15 years in corporate development and strategy execution, formerly an executive at major corporations. Leads growth, efficiency and change initiatives with analytical clarity and a pragmatic feel for the people side.
Strategy workshops and offsites we have facilitated for the leadership teams of
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Questions
Questions about the strategy workshop
How is the strategy workshop different from the strategy offsite?
The strategy workshop is the compact format: a shared view of today, 3–5 must-win battles and company OKRs for the next quarter, in two days. The strategy offsite gives the future more room, adds a stop list and ends with a strategy on one page. In the prep session we tell you which one fits, or that neither does.
Who is in the room?
Your leadership team, typically 6 to 15 people, and one or two of us, as your team needs: one leads the process, the other challenges the content. Both are senior.
What do we need to prepare?
A one-hour prep session with structured questions on your strategy, your numbers and the decisions the workshop must make. A short market keynote and the CEO’s ambition open day one; we help you shape both. We sign an NDA on request.
Do we need OKR experience?
No. Day two starts with a 90-minute OKR training so that everybody shares one language before the team writes its first Objectives and Key Results.
Where does the workshop take place?
At a venue of your choice. We are based in Hamburg and come to wherever your team meets, in English or German.
What happens after the two days?
The check-ins, the mid-quarter review and the end-of-quarter review are in the calendar before you leave. On request we facilitate them and the planning of the following quarter.
Three Horizons is the framework by Baghai, Coley and White (McKinsey & Company, 1999). Stryke Consulting is not affiliated with McKinsey & Company or the authors. OKR stands for Objectives and Key Results.
Next step
Let’s plan your strategy workshop
In 30 minutes we find out whether the format fits your team, and which dates work.
Write to ushello@stryke-consulting.com · 0049 175 566 4329 · Hamburg
Strategy development and execution · Hamburg