Why do strategy sessions?After years of experience, I realized that there is a particular type of group interventions that work very well during any transformation – I call them strategy sessions.
Strategy sessionsDepending on at what level of the organizational hierarchy and at what stage of the project the sessions are organized, they can serve several very important purposes:
- to help jointly define/understand what is the reason and ultimate purpose of change; and/or
- to define the steps forward or adjust them;
- to keep a sufficient level of communication and involvement;
- to give a sense of ownership for the project and its outcomes.
The last is particularly important as according to my experience and science, it significantly increases the buy-in from employees and allows them to foresee potential issues in the change.