Online Workshop: Restart Your Growth Planning with Rob Eskridge and Ryan Stock

Overview

Getting the right start to business planning can make the journey from strategy to action much more efficient and effective. In this online workshop, you will experience the first of five critical strategic planning processes designed specifically for privately held businesses. Participants may volunteer to offer relevant examples from their work or from other businesses they have observed in their industry.

You will also be introduced to The Growth Management River Trip℠, a customer-centered approach to strategic planning, simplified. It can be used for you to lead the other four planning and implementation processes within your business following this workshop.

Participants should have authority to lead the development or update of business plans for their organization.

Learning Objectives

• Identify critical issues in the participant’s business that planning should address this year. These will trigger a planning update following the workshop. (It is not necessary to share your issues with other participants.)
• Develop a deeper understanding of how changing customer needs should influence early stages of strategic-business planning.
• Introduce a videoconference-based visual methodology for strategic-business planning that has been proven in more than 40 industries across the globe.
• Learn how to move strategic planning to the next phases once planning issues have been identified.

Highlights

• Your workshop guides are Rob Eskridge and Ryan Stock, long-tenured Grove Partners who have led planning workshops for hundreds of management teams, including The Grove Consultants International. See their client list here: https://www.agendas.net/aboutus
• The workshop methodology you experience via Zoom can be replicated during in-person, virtual or hybrid planning meetings.
• Interaction with other participants will develop a broader context for deciding how to focus your own planning process.
• Follow-up for the other four critical planning processes is available in published form, or it can be consultant-led by experienced facilitators in The Grove Partners network.

What This Course Is Like

• One 2.5-hour session, followed by one hour Q&A. The Q&A session at the end is available to address specific applications of the River Trip processes to your business.
• An intimate online setting with a limit of 12 participants.
• One facilitator and one graphic recorder will lead the workshop.
• A visual participant kit will be sent via priority mail ahead of time.
• Following introductions and a process overview, most of the time will be spent in dialogue about examples of external and internal factors that trigger strategic issues, and what planning information is relevant to address them quickly.
• While the group will be working with an online Mural example, each participant will be working with a paper template at their desk to capture any confidential issues for their own business.

Of Special Note

• Only one participant per organization. No direct competitors will be accepted, so first-come, first-served. If there are potential competitive conflicts, we will reach out to those previously registered to accept or reject participation with a potential competitor.
• Technology requirement: Desktop or laptop to access Zoom meetings for video conferencing. Download the app beforehand.