The Strategic Playground: Cultivating and Sustaining a Strategic Mindset -- April 18 IN-PERSON Pre-Conference Workshop

The Performance Excellence Network — in partnership with the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence and the Iowa Quality Center — is pleased to announce a powerful workshop: The Strategic Playground: Cultivating and Sustaining a Strategic Mindset.  The workshop will be hosted April 18 IN PERSON from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM CT and will be facilitated by Mary Rapaport of Xcelerate.  The workshop is one of four pre-conference workshops for the igniteEX 2024 conference, held later April 18 and all day April 19.  More information on the conference is here.  You may attend the workshop without attending the conference, but there is a discount for attending both!

The Strategic Playground is an opportunity for leaders to recharge, reflect and rethink by immersing themselves in a strategic thinking experience. This interactive workshop includes activities, exercises and discussions all designed to elevate your thinking and challenge you to find ways your contributions can have more impact. We'll cover topics including what strategic thinking is, and why we are all too often focused on execution in the workplace.  We'll uncover the systemic barriers and obstacles to strategic thinking, and we'll challenge your thinking about the level of impact you can have in the workplace. We'll also explore how to prevent biases and assumptions from limiting your strategic thinking.  Participants will come away from the session with new insights and several useful tools and frameworks that can help them activate and channel their strategic thinking.

The workshop will cover these items:

* What is strategic thinking?

* Why we don’t think more strategically; the business environment

* Small group discussion: Systemic barriers to strategic thinking

* Framing challenges

* Sphere of Impact

* Cognitive biases

* Exercise: Powerful Questions

* Exercise – Scenario - Recognizing Assumptions and Biases

The session will be hosted at Mystic Lake Conference Center, Prior Lake, MN on April 18 from 9:00-12:00 CT.

Investment is $250 for members ($500 for non-members).  Discounts available for those also attending the igniteEX 2024 conference ($200). No group discounts available for this workshop, as space is limited and it WILL sell out!

Don't miss this powerful opportunity to improve how you and your team make decisions and prepare for the future!