The hidden cost of poorly run events
Executives spend an average of 23 hours per week in meetings, workshops, and events. Yet most of these sessions suffer from the same core problem: conversations without concrete outputs.
The issue isn't a lack of expertise or knowledge. Teams know their business. The problem is working without the right tools and structured processes to capture and build on ideas in real time. Without these, even the smartest groups default to open discussion, hoping they'll naturally arrive at the right conclusions. They rarely do.
The challenges we saw repeated across organisations:
- Teams talk through complex challenges but capture nothing visual, making it impossible to align on what was actually decided.
- Facilitators run sessions without a clear process, so discussions meander and dominant voices take over, there is no constructive feedback
- Participants are unclear and leave with a vague sense of progress but no tangible artefact to reference, share, or act on.
The result? Follow-up meetings to clarify what the last meeting was supposed to achieve.
What you'll gain by attending
A clear framework you can apply immediately, with three ingredients:
- Structure and flow: How to design the arc of a session so participants stay engaged and you reach clear outcomes.
- The right tools for the right conversation: How to match your tools to your objectives, when a simple exercise works better than a sophisticated methodology, and when the opposite is true.
- Facilitation that manages energy and focus: Reading the room, knowing when to push and when to pause, and keeping participants productive.
We'll share how these ingredients come together in practice, from short leadership meetings to full-day strategy workshops.
Who should attend
- Strategy and growth leaders who want leadership meetings to produce clearer outcomes
- Team leaders and managers who facilitate workshops or offsites
- Consultants and coaches who facilitate client workshops
- Anyone frustrated with meetings that consume time without creating value
Built on proven methods
We've designed and facilitated strategy sessions, workshops, and leadership events for over a decade. Our clients consistently rate these sessions highly because they leave with decisions made and actions defined.