Imagine that you are leading a strategic retreat in which your diverse leadership team will make key decisions about your strategic plan. It is your job to lead the discussion, stimulate healthy debate from diverse points of view, and leave with a strategy that is right for your business. The strategic plan will not be performed yet; however, you will have chosen a strategy by the end of the retreat. You also performed key analyses using that data and you reflected on your company’s mission, vision, and values and how this relates to the strategic plan. Now it is time to use that data and analyses to choose a strategy that best fits your company.
This assignment has two parts. In the first part, you will summarize your approach to the workshop. In a 1 to 2-page essay, include the following:
* Setting expectations: What are your key expectations for this workshop?
* Managing status: How will you minimize the status effect so all can contribute?
* Setting ground rules: What are the most important ground rules for how people should make comments and how decisions will be made?
* Managing conflict: What will be your approach to conflict resolution?
* Getting started: How will you begin the workshop?
In the second part of this assignment, choose the three most critical of the many criteria Tracy discusses in Chapter 7, and then detail your expected results of the analysis once the meeting has been conducted by SWOT analysis for the three criteria selected. Use your professional judgment or experiences to predict what you believe the meeting participants concluded for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. As Peter Trucker said, “Errant assumptions lie at the root of every failure.” Part 2 should be approximately 2 to 3 pages. You may want to review the following SWOT analyses from the library, found in the resources:
* Sysco Corporation
* Ebara Corporation
* American Airlines
Support your paper with a minimum of three scholarly resources.
