Facilitated Strategy Workshop

Develop new strategies

In this facilitated strategy workshop you will identify critical problems and challenges and develop innovative solutions and strategies.

Functioning as a facilitator, creaffective will lead the group according to the parameters that you have set. By using the Creative Problem Solving Process the facilitator will help you to come to develop new strategies for the right challenge.

Benefits of a strategy workshop:

In this strategy workshop you will clarify and define your problem and develop meaningful and workable strategies to solve them.

Elements of a strategy workshop:

Before we begin (duration ca. 1 – 2 hours):

Initial conversation with the client to define the challenge and to prepare the strategy workshop.

The day of the strategy workshop (4 hours to 2 days, depending on topic):

Introduction to Creative Problem Solving - a process to systematically solve problems which require new solutions.
Clarification of the problem, identification of key challenges
Deriving a strategy how to solve the key problems
Developing solutions to the key problems
Analyzing the acceptance and feasibility of the developed solutions.

Documentation of all contents by creaffective

Examples of previous strategy workshops:

During a facilitated strategy workshop a bank develops new strategies how to target new customers.
An insurance company uses a facilitated strategy workshop to develop a new PR strategy.
An Asian supermarket chain works on a new sales strategy.

Example of the Challenge Mapping tool which is frequently used in strategy workshops facilitated by creaffective.

Strategy Workshops and Innovation Workshops - what customers say

"Already the preparation before the workshop was impressive. Through this intensive contracting and the right questions to ask Florian Rustler was able to prepare a successful 2-day’s workshop. Also during the workshop he managed through and excellent facilitation to “get the group going”. When we saw the solutions in the end of the workshop it became clear to us why it was so important to take enough time to really clarify the problem before the workshop."

Alexandra Schömmer Project Leader HR
MTU AeroEngines GmbH, Munich

"In an intensive three day workshop, with the help of Florian Rustler and his creativity toolkit we were able to develop several truly new ideas for a challenging product request.
Particularly helpful was the strong focus on problem definition in the first half of the workshop. This helped us to align the participants from different functions, and provided a solid basis for efficient idea generation and evaluation.
All in all, our expectations were fully met, and we consider working with creaffective again."

Dr. Falk Herrmann,
VP Engineering Asia-Pacific,
Bosch Power Tools (China)

"The new approach to known problems and especially the development of creative solutions have convinced me.Florian Rustler gives a fresh impetus in every phase of the workshop to create new solutions.The implementation of the solutions developed in the workshop already shows positive effects."

Udo Mager, CEO, City of Dortmund Economic Development Agency

"The creaffective methodology provides a safe framework to get to sound results. Especially interesting was to discover that behind the obvious problem lies the real problem that we then worked on in the workshop. In practice there is otherwise the risk to develop solutions for problems that don't exist."

Andreas Cludius,
Abteilungsleiter Grundsatzfragen/ Operational Service Mittelstand, BayernLB

"The most fascinating was how we quickly developed new approaches to a known problem and worked out the specific steps to solve the problem."

Dr. Philip Scherenberg,CEO of Die Komplizen: Mentoring für Schüler gGmbH

"Thinking about a creativity workshop I first expected comfortably sitting around, relaxing and getting inspiration. Totally wrong! It can be a hard work but work that is a lot of fun. The creative process was steered in a way that all ideas could be included. Nevertheless we did not feel lost afterwards in a pile of ideas. We now know exactly which steps to take and when."

Angelika Bachmann
Leitung Projekt "Münchner Klimaherbst", Münchner Volkshochschule/Ökologisches Bildungszentrum München