Planning season 2027 › Outside view
An outside view before 2027 is decided.
Input for the strategy off-site you are planning anyway: two to three hours with a working session, built into your schedule – so that your 2027 plan answers the questions on which plans otherwise fail in day-to-day business.
Why now
The fourth quarter decides the next year
Between October and December, budgets are allocated, targets set and programmes approved. Whatever does not make it onto the table in these weeks is missing for the following twelve months.
Most strategy off-sites are well prepared – by people who work inside the organisation. That is precisely their limit: those who know the system overlook what the system itself does not show. Input for the strategy off-site from someone who has nothing to gain and nothing to lose in the room is the cheapest insurance against a plan that only works on paper.
Three inputs to choose from
What we talk about
You choose one input. In the preliminary conversation, we tailor it to your organisation and your agenda.
Input 1
Delivery review 2026
What was decided, what actually arrived – and why the gap between them will reappear in the next plan if nobody names it.
Input 2
Reported at the top, known at the bottom
A grapevine check before planning: which informal patterns will carry your 2027 projects and which will slow them down.
Input 3
Three questions for the 2027 plan
Is there enough capacity, are the decision paths in place, and how do you measure progress beyond green traffic lights?
The process
How the outside view fits into your off-site
Beforehand
Preliminary conversation
Around 45 minutes: where planning stands, what should be decided by the end of the off-site, which input fits.
On the day
Input with a working session
Two to three hours in your off-site. A short input, after which the group works on its own projects. Agenda and facilitation remain with you.
Afterwards
A one-page follow-up
Within two working days: what from the input belongs in the 2027 plan – and which question is still open.
Straight talk
When you do not need an outside view
The plan is only meant to be confirmed
If the outcome is already fixed, an outside view disrupts more than it helps. In that case, save yourself the fee.
You are looking for a keynote speaker
There are better speakers for that. The outside view is work on your plan, not an agenda item to sit back for.
Nothing can be changed any more
If budget and targets have already been decided, the input comes too late. An implementation check in the spring is then the better choice.
If you need more than one input:
The fee
What the outside view costs
Outside view
€3,500
flat rate · half a day
Includes the preliminary conversation, the input with working session, the one-page follow-up and travel time within Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
Travel expenses
at cost
in addition to the fee
I charge travel and, if needed, one overnight stay as they are incurred – with no flat rate and no mark-up.
Credit
€3,500
towards an off-site day or mandate
If the outside view is followed within three months by an off-site day or a mandate, I deduct the fee in full.
Prices for businesses, net plus VAT. Travel expenses at cost. Fixed price for engagements commissioned by 31 January 2027; prices as of October 2026. Errors and omissions excepted; subject to change. Only the written proposal is binding. All fees, credits and terms at a glance →
I allocate dates in November and December in the order in which enquiries arrive.
If you want the entire off-site facilitated:
Read on
Your next step
Prepare
First establish where you stand
Specialist self-assessments – four minutes each, no registration. A good starting point before you set the agenda for your off-site.
Go deeper
When two hours are not enough
The transformation off-site day: a full day with the board and the leadership team, facilitated and with a result that holds up in day-to-day business.
Check the record
Where the experience comes from
Completed mandates in banking and financial services – with figures that are documented.
Is the date for your off-site already set?
Then a short first conversation of 30 minutes is enough to clarify which input fits and where it belongs on your agenda. Free of charge and with no obligation.
Prefer to get in touch directly? office@slotta.at · +43 670 555 9678