The Strategic Alignment Retreat makes a complete, self-conducted, managerial audit of the company and analyzes what can be improved and, thus, it lays the essential groundwork for the entire future of the enterprise. Through such a team-based analysis, the company's energies can be aligned toward improvement by addressing the root causes of company issues.

• An identification of the many areas for improvement in all parts of the company
• A detailed strategy and priority for the relief of those identified areas
• A learning of how to ensure mutual cooperation and teamwork
• An energized atmosphere that legitimizes the need for change in the organization
• A new perspective on the business of management including the inevitability of conflict, why it is necessary for healthy organizations, and how to harness it
• A written plan of action for the future well-being of the company that is backed by the power and commitment of the key managers

For staff resisting change an accumulation of all the potential improvement issues within the company puts the handwriting on the wall. It gives management a clear picture of the reality they face, which makes the staff previously resisting change suddenly embrace the opportunity for a new beginning. The need for change is validated and the energy to do so is created. The excitement firmly rooted by the Strategic Alignment Retreat, is coupled with participants' newfound expectations for substantive organizational realignment. The attitude will be: "Let's get on with it!".

The Strategic Alignment Retreat is a chance to overturn every stone or to "shake things up" and, thus, take real steps towards needed change.

It is about discovering and direction - a realignment to a new horizon. First it defines the obstacles before you that would impede your progress. Second, it sets the wheels in motion for their resolution. Then it establishes ambitious goal for your company to reach the next level up in its corporate growth.

The Strategic Alignment Retreat, when followed by an improvement program², usually results in year one with the benefits of 90% of the organization's pain being arrested as 40% of hidden problems are resolved. As a result, 30% annual increase in sales often occurs in the first year after the SAR³.

Most importantly, any future direction of the company will be set, no longer impeded by hidden issues.

Why this will be the most important event in your company's life

• It is a renewal, a new beginning - for everyone in the organization
• It offers to clear the air from hidden gremlins, obscure problems, unacknowledged issues and destructive conflict within
• It sets a course for success - for continuous success, year after year

Weighing the SAR against a Mission and a Plan

A Mission has the specific purpose of setting a direction for the company by defining the common purpose.
The Plan offers a tactical course for operations over the next one to two years

The SAR is forever; it shows you how your company fits the big picture to success and where it should be going. It initiates the cleaning of the house now, bringing to the surface all the deep-seated issues that have gradually accumulated within and are slowly dragging your firm away from desired success.

The following pages will permit you to conduct the Strategic Alignment Retreat on your own.

Click here to learn what components are necessary for your own Strategic Alignment Retreat.

However, if you choose to have MIGRATION assist you directly, you would receive: