I was asked to guide a company and it’s board through a strategic re-focusing process. What is strategic re-focusing? I asked the same question. The company has a strategic plan and they were about 2 years into their plan. They were looking for a process to bring their goals and progress back into focus and assist them in planning the remaining time. We developed the agenda below.

Strategic Re-Focusing Retreat

• When ::
• Where ::
• Who:: Board of Directors, Executive staff. Facilitator Mike C

Objectives:

1. Cover successes and challenges of this year
2. Re-focus the board
3. Identify responses and progress clues for the following questions:
   1. What data and information does the board need to govern effectively?
   2. How will the board determine wise use of resources?
   3. How will the board measure and track board engagement and progress?
   4. What does a ‘shared visual’ board strategic-planning map look like?

Proposed agenda  

Time	Action	Team / Who responsible
745-800	Participants arrive, eat a light breakfast and network
800-815	Welcome. Overview and expectations of the day	Mike
810-900	Participant discussions and sharing What has to happen for today to be useful to the organization and you?	Random team / Mike
900-1000	Review 2015 successes and where org is now Review 2015 board specific successes and where board is now	Board chair,  vice chair, CEO
1000-1200	BoD – what does success look like? How will we know? What does the board need? BoD wil self-identify and join the following groups based upon the 2016 Board Manual How will we measure our success? How will we measure our objectives, phase 1, phase 2 and phase 3 goals? How are our regional partners better off from partnering with us? What evidence do we have to support our response?	Random / Mike
	BREAK
1230-130	What data/information does the board need to govern effectively? Distinctive :: Working well :: 1year Better	2 teams of 5. 2 teams of 4 / Mike
130-230	How will the board determine wise use of resources? Current Method Better Way	Remix teams. 2 teams of 5. 2 teams of 4 / Mike
230-330	How will the board measure and track board engagement and progress? List the problem :: Draw the solution	Remix teams. 2 teams of 5. 2 teams of 4 / Mike
330-445	Next steps Mike’s guess of next steps … Someone types up all the notes Sends notes to board with suggested tasks Board determines a time to meet and ideas, suggestions, updates Mike takes all feedback and develops a planning process for the board Mike presents to the board his suggestions Board feedback Mike iterates as needed  Identify someone to head the planning and updates Mike offers support as needed Data to show value – gathering & eval data process	All board/ Mike and Board Chair

 

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