Corporate Away Days
Corporate Away Days
The objectives of an Away Day might include:
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â—¼ Regrouping as a team away from the hustle and bustle of every day
â—¼ Respond to changes in the market, customers, technologies
â—¼ Develop or enhance the strategic direction of the business
â—¼ Review the year to strengthen plans and policies
â—¼ Recalibrate priorities
â—¼ Make some big investment decisions such as acquisitions, new product and service developments, new branches or offices
â—¼ Work through differences of view that may have been holding the Board back
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enquiries@facilitator.co.uk
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How Do Facilitated Away Days Work?
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A facilitated Away Day or Strategic Offsite allows the senior people to fully immerse themselves in the content rather than worry about running the meeting.
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A facilitated session has a different tone and feel to normal Board Meetings. Depth of consideration and more exploratory conversations are encouraged.
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Design Of An Away Day
Methods we use in Away Days include:
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â—¼ Collaborative performance review – where participants rate performance of functions and discuss constructive suggestions for improvement
â—¼ Identify key growth projects
â—¼ Priorities – getting aligned and injecting urgency in issues as required
â—¼ Sales improvement planning
â—¼ Product Roadmap Planning
â—¼ Customer Service improvement
â—¼ Resource allocation – we have an interesting way to help you prioritise these
â—¼ Innovating in The Future – a session to think about fundamental developments in the business’ operating context – the market(s) and the macro environment
â—¼ Scenario Planning – thinking through some potential scenarios and planning how you will make the most of them
â—¼ SWOT analysis – a very useful summary tool enabling the Board to define impact, mitigations and exploitations
â—¼ Risk review – we ask questions in a provocative way to help the Board identify likely risks and work out how to manage them
â—¼ Innovations – a brainstorming session to identify opportunities for innovation and set expectations for the organisation to progress them
â—¼ Governance Review – how well have you as a Board fulfilled your Governance Role
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Examples Of Away Days We Have Run
Here are some of the Management Away Days we have provided:
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â—¼ Long, Medium and Short Term planning
â—¼ Strategy setting
â—¼ Preparing for an IPO
â—¼ 100 Day Planning Sessions (for post VC investment)
â—¼ Pulling Together – improving inter-departmental teamwork
â—¼ Annual Business Plan direction and agreement of key deliverables and targets
â—¼ Post merger teamworking
â—¼ Resetting a relationship between Directors in a merged company
â—¼ Development of a new governance process and structure
â—¼ Development of a new structure for large not-for-profit group with multiple Boards
â—¼ Evaluation of a Board through observation, one-to-one reviews
â—¼ Negotiation of a demerger to Heads of Terms level
â—¼ Evaluation of strategic options
