High Stakes Facilitation

Business Strategy

Conduct interviews with key stakeholders to identify assumptions, raise ideas, and determine key strategic issues and areas of agreement and disagreement
Hold strategic conversations to frame strategy formulation about such topics as environmental trends, scenarios, critical industry success factors, competitive analysis, core competencies, organizational culture, disruptive innovation, market analysis and growth planning, and strategy evaluation
Identify three to five strategic objectives with measures, targets, key activities, and accountabilities for each

Interview key stakeholders and conduct focus groups to determine the current state of diversity, key understandings and disagreements, and barriers to and facilitators of success
Identify three to five strategic objectives with measures, targets, key activities, and accountabilities for each

Where disagreement or opportunity exists, build solid agreements on critical issues between departments, functions, and organizations and among team members
Create a pathway to action for implementing agreements that eliminates disagreements or takes advantage of opportunities

In the tradition of General Electric, which developed the workout method, Lead Diversity facilitates workouts, confirming executive sponsors, identifying critical issues and desired outcomes, building the agenda, chartering the workout team, facilitating the workout process, bringing just-in-time problem-solving and decision-making tools, capturing decisions, guiding the report out, and expediting implementation