Sun Tzu's Warrior's Rules -- for Winning Productively

Our one-day workshops are interactive sessions that provide an overview the core skills of strategic analysis and response. They illustrate in tangible ways how strategy works in a real life situations. They a longer format that allows attendees to get real work done in addressing specific shared challenges and responsibilities. Our strategy workshops are designed for a minimum of 25 attendees and a maximum of 500.

These workshops consist primarily of strategic exercises, activities that give attendee the opportunity to make strategic decisions with and without the use of specific strategic tools. We not only teach the principles of strategy but use those to clarify your organization’s strategic mission, identify opportunities, and develop potential moves to stronger positions. These workshops start with a discussion of strategic analysis and, through interaction with the workshop participants, create an in-depth analysis of your organization, your marketplace, and competing organizations.

In a workshop, most of the discussion comes from the attendees. We guide the discussion to meet two specific goals:

• The first goal is meet the specific educational goals of the meetings plannings

• The second is to educate the attendees on how to develop a strategic position using the tools of Sun Tzu's strategy; 

• The final goal is to meet the goals defined by the group itself,  the achievement of those results, and agreement to follow up on those results.

The first part of the day is spent on learning how to analyze strategic positions. We start with mission and then evaluate all other aspects of the organization in terms of how well they unite the organization around its mission.

Then we discuss how our warrior's rules are related to the specific challenges that the group is facing. During this part of the workshop, we try to identify the group’s priorities and the dangers and common mistakes that organizations make in trying to advance a position.

Finally, most of the day is spent in work teams, working through strategic exercises in decision-making, demonstrating how better decisions are made in everyday situations.