Seven tips for a transformative offsite
It's that time of year again. 2024 is already peaking its head around the corner, and if you haven't already started planning for it, you...
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Dave Williams
- Sep 20
- 2 min
The Imperative of In-Person Leadership Retreats
As 2024 approaches, the question isn't whether you should hold a leadership offsite—it's how to make it transformative. Offsites are more...
Sean Martin
- Mar 2
- 3 min
Strategic Tensions
You don’t chose one or the other, you dance at the balancing point In 1995, wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park. A...
Dave Williams
- Jan 11
- 3 min
Once upon a strategy…
Turn strategy into a story about where you want to be and how you got there, and you'll be amazed at how it increases team alignment.
Sean Martin
- Nov 16, 2022
- 6 min
The Choice to Go Deeper - Interview with Dan Doty
"The best strategy is useless if executed by a dysfunctional team, and the best teaming / organizational practices can’t make a dent if...
Sean Martin
- Sep 11, 2022
- 3 min
I’m Not Emotional, We’re Emotional
I was leading a client offsite. The senior team was scoring their Objectives & Key Results with their level of confidence in hitting the...
Sean Martin
- Jul 13, 2022
- 3 min
Returning to ‘Normal’?
Over the course of the pandemic, we adapted in really remarkable ways, and relatively quickly. To quote an odd source for business...
Dave Williams
- Jul 7, 2022
- 4 min
How to Downsize Without Losing Your Company's Soul
Sometimes difficult times call for difficult measures. We are now in a difficult moment. Many leaders are wrestling with a dramatic...
Sean Martin
- May 2, 2022
- 4 min
The First Rule of Offsites...
Bonus: And the second rule too I am on the plane home after running an offsite with a leading non-profit, still buzzing from the energy...
Sean Martin
- Dec 3, 2021
- 5 min
Avoiding Cracks in the Foundation
In the wake of success can be the seeds of failure We all know the stats on the low success rate of startups. It’s hard to take an...
Dave Williams
- Nov 12, 2021
- 3 min
Are You Building an Organization or an Ecosystem?
Once in a while you run into a business misnomer that has been staring you in the face for years, completely unseen because it’s so...
Dave Williams
- Jul 28, 2021
- 4 min
What’s the secret to organizational performance, based on research?
When we started Volition Partners almost a year ago, my partner and I began with the hard-earned knowledge that many companies face a...
Sean Martin
- Oct 26, 2020
- 3 min
Harnessing the Power of Purpose
Why purpose driven companies outperform, and outlast, their competition.
Dave Williams
- Jul 21, 2020
- 7 min
Building Brands From The Inside Out
Imagine this: The branding agency just left. After months of internal analysis, customer research and a not insignificant amount of...
Dave Williams
- Jul 19, 2020
- 9 min
Establishing Rhythm at a Startup
The last time you started a new job at virtually any established company, there was no doubt a lot to learn and a lot of adjustment, but...
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