Top Executive Retreats That Leaders Crave!
Align Your Executive Team to a Common Leadership Narrative.
In my book CHUNK, I explain the importance of top leaders having a shared mentality for your business. I claim that until you do that, any talk of mission, vision, or core values might be wasted. But, alignment doesn't stop there. For my clients who want to get really well aligned (i.e., on the same page), I facilitate and document an entire retreat experience in which we:
- Clarify your exact strategic situations that need attention in order to drive company improvement, from both internal and external perspectives.
- Develop and share your individual Leadership Narratives in writing with one another.
- Develop your blended top executive team Leadership Narrative.
- Agree to your Central Mentality as a company (from CHUNK).
- Recast your mission, vision, and core values.
- Commit to specific Objectives and Key Results (OKR).
- Have a great time together in a stellar location and venue of your choosing.
Connect with Tom
E-mail me with your thoughts. I'll listen to learn more about you and your AEC company. I'll ask questions about your top leaders. I'll recommend possible solutions on the spot. Then, at your invitation, I will craft a tailored solution. Thank you!
Premier Strategic Business Planning.
It's the Leader's Job To Manage Culture Change.
My role model Peter Drucker once said, "culture eats strategy for breakfast." Most people stop reading right there. He went on to say that culture and business strategy need to be aligned. People misunderstand the culture/strategy dynamic.
Create a New and Clear Company Direction.
I have facilitated and documented over 250 strategy retreats in some spectacular locations and venues. My offsite retreats are compelling story-telling adventures. Reimagine strategic thinking and planning!
reading For students of strategy.
35+ years of strategic retreat experienced boiled down to 330 insightful and entertaining pages.
So, I wrote a book. It's for strategic innovators who need to position their enterprise for lasting competitive success. It captures in writing the proven strategic planning and execution processes I have honed over four decades. It launched September, 2021 and was an immediate Amazon Top-Rated New Book.
Praise for CHUNK:
- If your strategic planning sessions haven't met your expectations you need to read this book.
- This is THE book that will stay on your desk for years to come. You will wear out the dust jacket. You will use multiple highlighters, pens, and pencils. You will flag pages with dog-eared corners and sticky notes. If you have the Kindle® copy, whenever you open the reader this is what you will see. This book is THAT compelling. Active strategic planning for your organization can be done and done well using Tom Emison’s proven processes and techniques. The ONLY thing better is to have Tom in the room(s) working with you and the leaders around you.
- Tom writes the way he speaks: direct, to the point, plenty of allegories to go around, humorous, serious. Once you've developed your strategic plan using "Chunk" you will wonder how anything got done before --- but maybe it didn't. From beginning to end, this tome will have you taking notes, contemplating the possibilities, and setting your sights further and higher than before. From the examples of Prince and Malcolm Baldridge Jr to movie quotes, the read is entertaining, enlightening, and empowering.
- I read this book to learn more about what to do when your business hits the growth ceiling as every business does at one time or another (or sometimes multiple times). In this book, the author does an excellent job of laying out the framework for strategic planning retreats that can be a powerful tool for moving your business beyond that growth ceiling. The author’s energy, passion and personal investment in creating impactful strategic planning events is palpable. This book will be the measure by which you judge your companies’ future strategic planning processes.
- Tom captures the real life challenges of facilitation - not only for strategic planning facilitation but for other opportunities to facilitate be it for internal planing meetings, community leadership, volunteer roles, etc. In my career, I had the opportunity to facilitate hundreds of meetings. I could have used the tips and the learning experience shared by Tom.
- CHUNK is a fresh look at strategic planning for your company. Tom shows you how to bring ‘Magic’ to the strategic planning process for your organization while avoiding the magical thinking that plagues a lot of organizations.
- CHUNK is a must read if you want to take your company to the next level. This book will help you understand what real strategic thinking looks like. Having been through sessions with Tom I can confirm that if you want to change your companies direction or figure out what you want out of your company, this book will help you transform your thought process and company direction. What are you waiting for, this is a must read for all business executives.