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STRATEGIC PLANNING INTENSIVES

Some work is too important to keep fitting between everything else.

A SHIFT Intensive gives your team dedicated time, structure, and outside perspective to make meaningful progress on something that matters.

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The work that matters most rarely comes with extra time.

The day-to-day doesn't stop because your leadership team needs to think about next year, navigate a change in direction, rethink the brand, or get clear about how the team is working together. A Strategic Planning Intensive creates dedicated space to step outside the normal rhythm, bring the right people together, and give the work your full attention.

WHAT FOCUSED TIME MAKES POSSIBLE

Space to Think
It’s hard to see the whole thing when you’re standing in the middle of it.
Step outside the normal rhythm long enough to think more clearly about what’s happening, what matters, and what might need to change.
Clearer Priorities
Not everything important is equally important right now.
Separate what deserves your attention from everything competing for it and get clearer about where the team needs to focus.
Better Decisions
Some questions need more than another hour on the agenda.
Stay with the work long enough to explore the options, challenge assumptions, and make decisions that actually move something forward.
Shared Ownership
The plan gets stronger when people know what belongs to them.
Leave with greater alignment around what’s next, who owns what, and how you’ll know whether you’re making progress.

WHAT DESERVES THE TIME?

An Intensive can be built around more than the year ahead.

If something deserves focused attention and has the potential to shape what happens next, we can build an Intensive around the work itself.

Use tools such as the Enneagram and deeper team-development work to get under your own hood first, then explore what happens when those patterns meet across the team—where you complement one another, where you collide, and what healthier ways of working together could look like.

Whether you’re launching something new, entering a different market, adding a line of business, or making a meaningful change in direction, use concentrated time to explore the opportunity, challenge assumptions, make decisions, and align the team around what comes next.

Look across the business, establish priorities and goals, define meaningful measures, assign ownership, and create a plan for the year ahead.

Work through positioning, messaging, identity, audience, and the story your organization needs to tell as it moves into what’s next.

BUILT AROUND THE WORK

Give it the time it deserves.

01

Name What Matters

Start with the thing that deserves focused attention—the year ahead, a new direction, your team, your story, or something else entirely.

02

Make Room for It

Get the right people together for multiple days of focused work—at your place, ours, or somewhere that gives you enough distance from the day-to-day to think differently.

03

Leave With Something

Use the time to make decisions, create clarity, establish ownership, and turn what you've discovered into something the team can actually move forward with.

What deserves more of your attention?

Tell us what your team is trying to work through, decide, build, or become. We'll help you figure out whether an Intensive is the right way to make room for it.