What must your leadership team decide before you book the 2027 offsite?
Four decisions belong before the room is booked, not inside it. HorizonAxis and HorizonNorth, the two free diagnostics, settle the first two before anyone travels.
Why it matters
November and December are when leadership teams set next year's priorities. The offsite is where that happens, and the day goes the way its preparation went.
A team that arrives with the starting point settled spends the day choosing. A team that arrives without it spends the day arguing about where the company stands, and the priorities get picked in the last hour. That is how a strategic plan dies before the quarter starts.
Where it breaks
The agenda gets written around topics: growth, hiring, product, the budget. Each executive brings a different picture of today and a different target for 2027. Ask six executives where the company stands and you get six answers.
An agenda of topics produces a day of discussion. An agenda of decisions produces a plan.
How it works
1. Where the company stands today - One picture of the present, scored before the room. HorizonAxis, the Strategic Profile Snapshot, reads it in 24 questions, ~9 min, free. Each executive runs it, and the team compares answers before the day. More on reading the present.
2. Where the company is headed - One destination, read in the same six dimensions. HorizonNorth, the Strategic Direction Snapshot, runs after HorizonAxis: 24 questions, free. The distance between the two reads is the gap, and the gap is the agenda.
3. How many priorities the room may leave with - Fix the cap at 3–5 before the agenda is written. A cap set in the room moves with whoever argues longest. Why three to five.
4. Who signs - Name the person whose signature makes the plan final, usually the CEO, and put it in the invite. Everyone in the room then knows the output is a decision with an owner.
By the numbers
4 | 2 | 24 | 3-5 |
|---|---|---|---|
decisions before you book the room | free diagnostics, HorizonAxis first | questions in each | priorities the room may leave with |
Who decides
Horizon12's AI co-strategist scores both reads on six dimensions and shows the framework behind each score. Your leadership team reads the scores and decides what the offsite must settle.
Your CEO signs what comes out. Nothing becomes "the strategy" without that signature.
If you want Horizon12 in the room
The Strategy Blueprint takes your two reads into the Strategic Initiatives Workshop, led by Horizon12's facilitator. Your team leaves with a scored first draft of 3–5 initiatives. Your CEO approves, edits or rejects each one, and signs the plan.
Go deeper
Every HorizonAxis score ties back to frameworks strategists already trust: SWOT, PESTEL, Porter's Five Forces, VRIO, the Ansoff Matrix and a BCG-style growth matrix. HorizonNorth draws on Ansoff, Porter, McKinsey's Three Horizons, the Resource-Based View and Hoshin Kanri.
When to use it
Your 2027 offsite is on the calendar and the agenda lists topics.
Your executives describe the company's position in different words.
Your last plan was renegotiated within a quarter of being agreed.
Bottom line
Strategy Blueprint: $5,000–$9,500, priced by leadership team size. Start with the free diagnostics instead: run HorizonAxis, ~9 min, then HorizonNorth.
Strategize. Cascade. Execute.
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