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Choose the decisions that deserve a session
Limit the agenda to choices the participants have authority to make. Examples include which customers to focus on, which growth opportunity to test or which activity to stop. Separate information updates from decisions that need collective discussion.
Write a short brief describing the current position, constraints and unresolved questions. If the team needs a document rather than a choice, our plan versus strategy comparison helps clarify the task.
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Prepare evidence and participants
Bring relevant customer feedback, financial information, market observations and capacity constraints. Ask participants to distinguish facts, interpretations and assumptions. Circulate enough material beforehand to avoid spending the session reading it aloud.
Include the people who will make the choices and those whose operational knowledge can expose a weak assumption. Agree who facilitates, records decisions and checks that quieter perspectives are heard.
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Move from options to explicit choices
Compare a small set of options against agreed criteria. Examine the trade-offs, required capabilities and consequences of doing nothing. A list of attractive ideas is not yet a strategy.
Use a strategy map to show how the chosen actions are expected to lead to results. Record links that are hypotheses so the team knows what it must test.
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Close with ownership and review
Read back the decisions, actions and unresolved questions before the session ends. Give each action an owner and a date for the next review. Name the evidence needed for decisions that could not yet be made.
Transfer the agreed work into a 90-day action plan. We can support growth and strategy discussions where a team needs help making these choices together.
Use this in your business
A decision-focused workshop agenda
| Stage | Output |
|---|---|
| Frame | Agreed decisions, constraints and decision-maker. |
| Review | Shared evidence and material uncertainties. |
| Explore | A small set of credible options. |
| Choose | Priorities, trade-offs and activities to stop. |
| Commit | Owners, next steps and review triggers. |
A practical example
Two attractive growth opportunities
A hypothetical business can pursue either a new customer segment or a second distribution channel, but cannot resource both well. The workshop compares customer evidence, economics and capacity, then chooses one bounded test. It records why the other option is deferred and what evidence could justify revisiting it.
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Bring us the decisions your strategy session must resolve