Leave your strategy day with a plan the whole team backs.
Everyone scores on their own phone before anyone speaks. The room sees where it agrees and where it splits. You leave with decisions, owners and a written report.
- Built for teams
- No app to install
- Nothing kept afterwards
Many strategy days end the same way.
The first person to speak sets the tone. The most senior person settles it.
Quieter people go along with the room. You find out what they thought six months later.
Someone rebuilds the Forms results in Excel by hand. By the time the charts exist, nobody reads them.
You gave up a day of client work and came back unsure what you agreed.
Everyone in the room should get an equal say.
Strategy O'Clock runs the voting so the facilitator can run the conversation. It uses methods you may already know.
Private scores first
People anchor on the first number they hear, so nobody sees a result until everyone has voted.
Disagreement on show
Each result shows the spread of votes as well as the average. Split items go to the top of the list.
Familiar frameworks
The Eisenhower matrix, Gary Klein's pre-mortem and Traction's 90-day Rocks.
Short scales
Agree statements use five points. Survey research finds that gives better data than seven or eleven.
Three steps to a plan the team backs.
- See where you standFind out how the team sees itself, how clients feel, and where the week goes. Tools: Team health, Client journey, Experience check, Time allocation.
- Choose what mattersRank the options against each other. Spend limited time and money on the right ones. Tools: Eisenhower matrix, 100-point budget.
- Commit to the planPick the 90-day priorities, look for weak spots, and check the room believes the plan. Tools: Rocks, Pre-mortem, Confidence vote.
Use Spin the wheel at any point to pick who presents or which topic comes next.
Ten tools for the day.
Eisenhower matrix
Score each initiative on urgency and importance, or swap in your own two axes. The reveal shows the average and how far apart people are.
100-point budget
Everyone spends 100 points across the options. It forces trade-offs when everything feels important.
Rocks
Propose 90-day priorities in private, vote for the top few, name an owner for each, then rate confidence. You finish with a one-page plan.
Experience check
Rate how well the firm delivers each statement and how much it matters to clients.
Client journey
For each stage, the team says how clients feel today, how you want them to feel, how consistent you are and who owns it.
Team health
Rate how true each statement is of the team today, across six areas. The radar shows where the team is strong and where groups see it differently.
Time allocation
Split 100 points by where your week goes now, then by where it should go. The room discusses the difference.
Pre-mortem
Imagine the plan failed. Name the causes in private, then rate how likely and how damaging each one is.
Confidence vote
Each person rates, anonymously, how confident they are that the team will deliver each commitment.
Spin the wheel
Add names or topics and spin. Everyone in the room watches the same spin land on the same answer.
Pick a format.
Each format runs the tools in order. The colours match the three steps above. Times assume a 9:30 start. They include discussion and leave out breaks. How to run each format.
Strategy day
A full day. About 4 hours of voting and discussion.
- 09:30Spin the wheel5 min
- 09:35Team health30 min
- 10:05Eisenhower matrix60 min
- 11:05100-point budget30 min
- 11:35Rocks60 min
- 12:35Pre-mortem40 min
- 13:15Confidence vote15 min
Client experience workshop
Half a day. About 2 hours 45 minutes of voting and discussion.
- 09:30Client journey60 min
- 10:30Experience check45 min
- 11:15Eisenhower matrix45 min
- 12:00Confidence vote15 min
Team offsite
Half a day. About 2 hours 30 minutes of voting and discussion.
- 09:30Spin the wheel5 min
- 09:35Team health45 min
- 10:20Time allocation40 min
- 11:00100-point budget40 min
- 11:40Confidence vote20 min
Quarterly planning
Two hours. About 1 hour 45 minutes of voting and discussion.
- 09:30Rocks50 min
- 10:20Pre-mortem40 min
- 11:00Confidence vote15 min
What changes on the day.
| How it usually goes | With Strategy O'Clock |
|---|---|
| The first opinion shapes the rest. | Everyone scores before anyone speaks. |
| Disagreement stays hidden behind an average. | Split items go to the top of the list. |
| Someone types up the results a week later. | The report and charts are ready before you leave. |
| Actions stay on a flip chart. | Decisions and owners go into every export. |
What people need to join.
- A phone and the four-letter code. There is no app to install.
- Answers carry no names. Groups, if you set them, are the only label.
- When the host closes the room, the app deletes every item and vote.
Guides.
The Eisenhower matrix explained
The four quadrants, where the idea came from, and how to use it well.
Run a prioritisation workshop
A two-hour agenda, the exercises, and how to stop the loudest voice winning.
Where the matrix falls short
"Urgent" means different things to different people. Here is how to deal with that.
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