I've just run another strategy workshop

I think the hardest part is the admin afterwards. All of the butcher's paper, all of the post-it notes and the PowerPoint presos to be collected, collated and saved somewhere accessible. I didn't do a SWOT this time... maybe I should've? It was what the client wanted, though. Participation, discussion and more discussion. Only a few heads nodded off towards the end and mostly we seemed to have good, practical things to say. Only at the very end did someone actually twig that strategy was different from tactics - it always seems a hard bit to grasp - and most were mired in a world of daily practice rather than lifting up their heads and looking around. It's always fun to expand an audience's horizon a little, so if one or 2 heads took a peak then it was worthwhile :)