The Masterful Strategy Meeting
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF
Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc.
"I would like for our management team to go away for a couple of days to spend some time thinking about the future. We get so caught up in making monthly and quarterly numbers, that we never get a chance to look at where this whole thing is really going. I hate to say it, but while I can get everyone together, I'm not quite sure what we would do. I just know we need to take some time to really think and we need to get everyone on the same page. Can you help?"
Refreshing, isn't it? I'll admit most CEOs I work with don't state their desire so directly. But many do recognize both the need for their team to think strategically and the need for help in doing it. So, how do you structure a masterful strategy meeting?
In my recently released book, The Secrets to Masterful Meetings, I offer the following definition of a masterful meeting.
A masterful meeting is a well-prepared, skillfully-executed, results-oriented meeting with a timely start, a decisive close, and a clear follow-up plan.
For a strategy meeting to be masterful, we at Leadership Strategies believe that the participants should think about the answers to four key questions.
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