Annual planning
The annual offsite is where a company sets what it will do for twelve months, and it is routinely the day where the biggest calls get the smallest time. This is the same day with the thinking done first and the decisions written down as they land.
Everyone answers on their own phone, in about two minutes, anonymously. You see where the team, the company and your customers already agree and where things split, and the agenda is built against that rather than against last year's template.
The split you would not have heard
Written answers before discussion mean you get the judgement of the whole table, not whoever is quickest to fill the silence.
An agenda that matches the year
Each block is matched to proven strategy, people, operations and finance methods chosen against what the read says is wrong, so the day has a route to a decision rather than a list of topics.
Locked before anyone books a flight
You see the agenda, change it, and lock it. Nothing is generated at you and nobody arrives wondering what the day is for.
Every priority takes a named owner, a date and a measure while that person is still in the chair. Then it cascades: each team gets its own part of next year, and drift is flagged and owners are nudged before anything slips.
One plan, not twelve readings of it
The plan cascades to each team as their own priorities and measures, so nobody has to work out which version is current.
Numbers, not a checklist
Each priority carries a real measure that rolls back up, so you track the thing that matters rather than whether a task got ticked.
It bends when the year does
When something shifts, the course-correction is proposed for you rather than the plan quietly going stale by March.
Enter your company website. Your team answers the hard questions about next year, you see where they agree and where they split, and the agenda for the day is built from it. Free, no card, no signup.
Half a day, a full day, or two days. Two days is one continuous session that parks overnight, so the second morning opens on what the first day actually decided rather than on a fresh agenda. The read your team gives beforehand is what decides how much the day has to cover.
Early enough that the teams below you can build their own plans from it. Late enough that the numbers you plan against are real. Either way, the work that makes the day land, asking your team the hard questions, happens before it.
Next year as a set of priorities, each with a named owner, a date and a measure, agreed while that person is still in the chair. Download it as PDF, Markdown or CSV, or run it live so it cascades to every team and drift gets flagged.
No, and you do not have to let one go either. Without one, your own leader runs the day and every block carries what it is for, how long it has and what it has to produce. With one, they keep reading the room while Throughline takes the clock, the capture and the follow-through.