All it takes is a Celebration, Four Questions, Moonshots, a Curious Question, "What if", I Wonder, Goals, Bold Steps !
Strategic Planning can be more fun than you think.
Businesses are often challenged to find new ways to be strategic, innovative and creative in their approach to their industries.
Yet, many “strategy meetings” leave people with big ideas feeling frustrated and with more unanswered questions than they started with. They are bogged down with binders, worksheets and other endless materials that won’t get used once the meeting is over. They feel stuck in their ability to take the strategic work further because they can’t tell what’s going to come next.
The business environment is constantly changing. Rapid technological advancements play an important role in the business environment, and customers’ needs and demands are changing too. It’s hard to keep up in this ever-evolving world.
You need new ways of leading and working to do the work of today. And foresight and vision to prepare for the business of tomorrow.
At Idea360, we want your people to say, “I get it now!” We want them to feel ownership and have the agency to imagine their future, and the tools to push what’s possible – for them. For the business.
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What's inside?
Celebrate:
As we begin to map out your story, we want to take a moment to truly pay homage to everything that led you here. You’ve heard the saying so many times before, “You can’t see where you’re headed until you know where you’ve been.” We are super excited to break open the present and paint your future with you.
Let’s start by taking a moment to not only hear where you’ve been, but invite you to celebrate those parts of your creative and productive history that got you here. Give us the whole picture including the characters, the journeys, the obstacles, and the victories. We’re gonna toast to it all!
Then we want to show you how the best is yet to come!
Four Questions:
Now here’s where it gets really juicy.
You’ve told your story, but we believe there’s more to it. We dive deeper into the depths of the thought process, the lessons learned, and the moments where you thought to yourself, “Next time.” Next time is now.
Let us lead you further down memory lane, traveling through some of the details of those highs and lows. Together we will brave the questions that mine all the precious gold from your previous quests leaving no stone unturned. You’re on your way to new and exciting victories!
Moonshots:
It’s time to shoot your shot and we’re gonna make sure you don’t miss!
We are presenting you with an amplified version of “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” Our “moonshots” call on you to share with us all the things you thought weren’t possible. This is done by putting your “hoop dreams” on paper without the pressure of seeing it play out. Doing this gives us a chance to dream with you and frees you from the intimidation of preset limitations.
We are here to support your mission, so take your shot. You’re guaranteed to end up among stars!
Curious question:
Get ready, we’re heading for the deep.
The purpose of inviting your prescribed impossibilities to the party wasn’t just for a good time. We believe in you and want to help you uncover the diamonds in those rough drafts. Questions and being dedicated to staying curious are triggered by pushing impossibilities to their limits and turning them inside out.
We are going to dial up the good and lean into our emotional responses. Applying all of these things to our map will satisfy our need to visualize without costing us the risks we aren’t ready for.
What if:
Exponential growth is accessible with expansive thinking.
It’s time to ask ourselves “What if?”
What if we let go?
What if we intentionally give big ideas the room to grow?
We are in the business of facilitating these types of discussions by inviting a position of holding the conversation outside the box. True growth never comes without a big stretch. We are here to spot you!
I wonder:
We are here to help facilitate how it might look to actualize those big “pie in the sky” ideas. We are heading back up to our “Moonshots” to see what can potentially be solidified.
Let’s start to work together to see our dreams take identifiable shapes. Having emptied ourselves of small-thinking and embraced a fresh review, it’s time to map out what some of our bright future might look like when applying possibility to the impossible.
I bet you’re wondering what that would look like? Let’s find out together!
Goals:
It’s time to come up for air. All the in-depth research and up-close views will make more sense as we step back. Like an artist viewing their creation before finishing touches, we will invite you to consider adding details to making those concepts in our Moonshots accessible.
We will be asking what resources are needed and what gaps are appearing to us as we attempt to bring this revised image to completion. This to-do list of sorts will essentially take shape in the form of goals. You will be creating goals from the picture you’ve created in order to bring the entirety of your vision to life.
This is about putting feet to the fantastic. Get excited. We are not setting you apart from dreamers to doers, we are converging into both at the same time!
Bold Steps:
Brave is good, but bold steps are better!
Before you go, we want to make sure you know what comes next. We have honored the past, asked questions, mined dreams, and connected all the dots leading to goal-setting.
Now we want to prepare you for the adrenaline rush you’ve been waiting for as we walk you to the edge of what once was. We will list our next steps that will take us into the future we had once only imagined.
We so looking forward to stepping into that amazing future you are ready to create and make! Let’s do this!
