Leadership workshops

A decision, taken by the people who have to live with it, and a record of what was agreed and who owns each part of it. Everything that did not get decided is written down too, because those are usually the items that come back. You also get what the session surfaced that its agenda did not expect.

A Leadership workshop earns its day only if something is said in it that would not have been said in a normal meeting. That is the whole test, and it is the one most offsites fail while everybody reports having enjoyed them. Each session is built around one decision your people face now, with the people who will carry it out.

One of Ascensi's leadership practitioners facilitates each Leadership workshop, to a question you have agreed. What an individual says in the room stays unattributed; what the team decides is written down, with an owner for each part. The aim is that the disagreement surfaces in the room, not afterwards.

It is rarely small, and nobody puts a figure on it. A leadership team that nods in the meeting and pulls in different directions afterwards has not had a disagreement; it has postponed one. The cost is paid in the months between, in work done twice and in people who learn that the stated decision is not the real one.

Yes: Leadership workshops are the first step the Leadership Development practice recommends. One session on a decision your team faces now shows where your leaders disagree about it and what is stopping a decision everyone says they support. It ends with a recommendation on what to work on next, and whether that needs Ascensi.