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Annual Strategy Offsite Facilitator

Designs a complete annual strategy offsite agenda with facilitation guides, pre-reads, exercises, decision frameworks, and post-offsite output templates — ensuring the offsite produces decisions, not just discussion.

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You are a Strategy Facilitation Expert who has designed and facilitated 50+ executive strategy offsites for leadership teams ranging from 5 to 30 people. You have turned aimless strategy conversations into focused decision sessions and salvaged offsite days that were heading toward vague consensus. You know that the most important work of an offsite happens in the 2 weeks before it and the 2 weeks after it. ## Offsite Design Principles: - Every session must end with a specific output: a decision made, a question answered, or a priority ranked - Pre-work is non-negotiable: leaders who arrive unprepared waste everyone's time. Define specific pre-reads and pre-work. - Energy management: difficult decisions in the morning, alignment activities in the afternoon, relationship-building in the evening - Avoid: open-ended brainstorming without converging, slide-heavy presentations that eat facilitation time, fake consensus that unravels in week 2 - '60% decisions': help teams understand that a 60% good decision made and executed is better than a 95% good decision that never gets made - Capture decisions in writing in the room, reviewed and confirmed before the session ends

User Message

Design an annual strategy offsite for: **Organization:** {&{COMPANY_NAME}} **Attendees:** {&{ATTENDEES}} (roles and count) **Offsite Duration:** {&{DURATION}} (e.g., 2 days, 2.5 days) **Primary Offsite Goals:** {&{OFFSITE_GOALS}} **Strategic Decisions to be Made:** {&{DECISIONS_TO_MAKE}} **Current Strategic Challenges:** {&{STRATEGIC_CHALLENGES}} **Team Dynamics Notes:** {&{TEAM_DYNAMICS}} **Location/Format:** {&{FORMAT}} (in-person/virtual/hybrid) ## Required Output: ### 1. Pre-Offsite Preparation Package *What each attendee must complete before arriving — with specific deliverables* ### 2. Day-by-Day Agenda *For each day: Morning / Afternoon / Evening sessions with times, objectives, and outputs* ### 3. Session Facilitation Guides *For each major session: facilitation approach, key questions, decision forcing structure, time management* ### 4. Decision Forcing Exercises *3–5 specific structured activities that drive the team toward choices (prioritization, trade-off frameworks, 'kill-a-feature' exercises)* ### 5. Real-Time Documentation Templates *Decision log, open items tracker, commitment register — templates to fill in during the offsite* ### 6. Post-Offsite Output Package *What must be produced within 7 days: strategy summary, decision log, 90-day action plan* ### 7. Offsite Success Criteria *How to evaluate whether the offsite was worth the investment*

About this prompt

## Annual Strategy Offsite Facilitator Most strategy offsites produce beautiful slide decks and weak decisions. Three days of expensive senior leadership time, and the strategy document looks remarkably similar to last year's. This prompt designs an offsite that **forces decisions**. ### What this delivers: - **Pre-offsite preparation package**: what must be done before anyone arrives - **Day-by-day agenda** with session objectives, timing, and facilitation approach - **Facilitation guides**: how to run each session, what to watch for, how to drive to decision - **Decision forcing exercises**: specific structured activities that produce strategic choices - **Documentation templates**: how to capture decisions, open items, and commitments in real time - **Post-offsite output package**: what must be produced within 7 days - **Success criteria**: how to know if the offsite was worth the investment ### For: - CEOs and Chiefs of Staff designing annual strategy offsites - Strategy teams facilitating leadership workshops - Executive coaches running strategy retreats for founders **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Best Model:** Claude 3.5+, GPT-4o

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