Workshops

My workshops are customised for each client, but common threads are long term planning, business model design, value proposition testing, leadership alignment and turning ideas into actions.  The 5 steps below give an idea of the scope of the journey I can take you on. There is no fixed pathway and I can start wherever is most appropriate for your business and its challenges. Take the journey using anything from a half-day through to multi-day workshops.

I design carefully planned and structured workshops; I use visual tools as I believe people think better when doing stuff, rather than just talking blah, blah, blah and I ensure every workshop is truly collaborative and fun.

Please contact me to discuss how I might be able to help with your challenge.

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Assess

Use a framework to assess potential opportunities for future growth without neglecting performance in the present.  

  • Short term - understand what is needed to defend and extend the current core business

  • Long term – look way ahead and identify options for future products or services 

  • Medium term – identify possible entrepreneurial activities needed to bridge the gap between the short and long term

  • Agree a plan

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Clarify

Clarify where you are today and build a shared understanding of improvement areas:

  • Develop clear business ambition and measures of success

  • Understand the big, external environmental opportunities and threats

  • Consider what could go wrong, the risks

  • Review current business model and what's good and not so good about it?

  • Develop plan of action

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Experiment

Prototype new business models and value propositions. Get ideas from other companies and force business model innovation. Mix up individual and team work:

  • ​Brainstorm ideas

  • Sketch out concepts

  • Look at well known and successful models and learn from them

  • Prototype canvases, pitch ideas & iterate

  • Select business model(s)/value proposition(s) to pursue further

  • Develop plan of action

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Discover

Test the highest opportunity prototypes:

  • Identify critical business and value proposition assumptions

  • Use tools to internally evaluate assumptions and options

  • Understand different testing methods and techniques for external testing

  • Try out the testing techniques 

  • Choose the most appropriate techniques

  • Build a test plan

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Deliver

Build an agreed action plan to move prototypes to action:​

  • Understand objectives and key results method

  • Define objectives

  • Agree results

  • Define the actions needed to deliver the results

  • Define a monitoring rhythm

  • Confirm responsibility and alignment across team