Sometimes Planning Needs to be Less Structured

By Heyden Enochson

Retreats
As planning facilitators, we’re often the ones keeping the meeting structured, timely, and on-pace to accomplish our client’s goals. And while that is certainly valuable in strategic planning, we were recently...

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4 Expert Tips on Coordinating the Logistics of Planning Sessions and Retreats

By Heyden Enochson

Retreats
If there is one thing we’ve learned from nearly two decades of facilitating planning sessions and retreats, it would be you can never come too prepared. We’ve seen it all—technology failures,...

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How to Balance Strategy Reviews – How We Balanced Sailing, Sand, and Strategy

By Heyden Enochson

Retreats
Strategy reviews are often approached with an innately serious tone and mood. And while reviews should be taken seriously and thoughtfully by your planning team, our own mid-year review reminded us...

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River Rafting Retreat on the American River in California

By Heyden Enochson

Retreats
Last week, the OnStrategy team escaped the office for a day to ride the rapids of the American River in California. It was a great team-building exercise that got us out...

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Retreats Aren’t Always About Change

By Heyden Enochson

Retreats
Mid-year reviews don’t always need to result in a wave of change. Sure, sometimes planning retreats can result in completely readjusting your strategic trajectory – but this doesn’t always need to...

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3 Rules We Used In Our Own Planning Retreat

By Heyden Enochson

Retreats
With the eminent whirl-wind of the holidays and New Year approaching, our team is not immune to the pressure of strategic planning for the upcoming year. 2015 is only weeks away...

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The Horror of Using Rusty Strategy Tools

By Cammy Elquist LoRé

Retreats • Strategy Reviews
Keeping strategy front and center can sometimes feel like a bold endeavor. Perhaps for some reading this, it might even feel like having a forced visit with King Kong. You’ve seen...

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When Developing This Year’s Strategic Plan, Know Your Role

By Cammy Elquist LoRé

Retreats
Putting leaders and managers together for a few days every year to hammer out a strategic direction is relatively straightforward. The challenge is making sure you move through strategic planning not...

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Doña Ana County Hires OnStrategy to Create a 5-Year Strategic Plan

By Shannon Sage

Retreats • Strategic Planning Process
(Doña Ana County, New Mexico) Oct. 25, 2012 – Doña Ana County awarded OnStrategy a contract to create a 5- year strategic plan that would adhere to the current quality of...

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Strategic Planning Success Story: Washoe County

By Todd Ballowe

Retreats
Washoe County is charged with meeting the needs of the 410,000 residents of Reno, Sparks, and Lake Tahoe’s Incline Village. The county hired OnStrategy for the facilitation of a series of...

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