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Facilitation Friday #25: Five Keys to Strategy Discussions

Idea Architects

Facilitation Friday #25: Five Keys to Strategy Discussions. When was the last time you were in a session intended to produce good strategy that actually did so? Too often strategy conversations are anything but strategic. Participants bring their past experiences and present expectations to the strategy effort.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Timeless Questions, Timely Tactics

Idea Architects

And, of course, that is one of the reasons why strategic plans often do not yield the commitment, action, or results they are meant to produce. Over the years, Ive developed a dozen questions to draw on during strategy conversations, ones that while timeless in nature almost always can generate new and timely responses. Dec 2002 (6).

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Facilitation Friday #22: Conversation Detours, Not Roadblocks

Idea Architects

Strategy sessions are about the future. Ill be leading an open registration full-day course on The Art of. Dec 2002 (6). Nov 2002 (4). Sep 2002 (2). Aug 2002 (3). Jul 2002 (3). Jun 2002 (2). May 2002 (4). Explore the future sustainability of the practice. often engage me to present.

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Moderating Discussions in the Modern World

Association Adviser

And, of course, webinars and Association TV are other popular tools for delivering online education. People, who work in the field, live and breathe strategy and implementation, and who want nothing more than to let others benefit from their experiences. Smartphones. There is one thing that all of these communications have in common.

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Game Plan 2014: Seeing Around the Corners

Association Adviser

Of course, that’s more easily said than done. Yet our research shows that very few associations— just 1 percent of respondents to our 2013 association benchmarking study—”embrace advertiser input when setting their content and communications strategy.”