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We can work with you to leverage the broader BTS content library and upskill your audience with proven capability-building exercises that look, feel, and sound like your organization. Critically, we ensure your vision and messaging comes to life through impactful takeaways and actionable next steps for your teams
Content development & messageing
Bring main stage presentations and breakout room experiences to life. BTS can support you with the creation of mainstage presentations, breakout room design (i.e., simulations & conversations), and event emcee & facilitation. This includes in-person, virtual, or hybrid events
Experience development & facilitation
A partner who will help you plan and guide the execution of your event. Services include but are not limited to alignment of leaders on themes, outcomes and ‘red thread,’ event structure, and speaker selection/preparation
Event design advisory
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Commercial Kickoffs, Meetings, and Summits
Bringing your teams together means more now than ever before.
Elevate those moments with powerful experiences.
12 reasons why commercial kickoffs, events, and summits might be right for you
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Commercial Kickoffs, Meetings, and Summits by BTS offers a unique opportunity to deliver custom engagements through powerful experiences that align and inspire your people. We follow mindful design principles during the co-creation process with your team to drive purpose, ownership, reflection, and intention, bringing more value to attendees and your organization.
may include: quarterly meetings, leadership alignment meetings, strategy development sessions, and more.
Strategic meetings
may include: initiative rollouts, beginning or year-end meetings, product launches, and more.
Sales Kickoffs
Other may include: team building meetings, business unit specific events, regional events, company retreats, and more.
large scale events
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I need to foster creativity, camaraderie, and effective strategic thinking across a broad and/or multi-regional leadership team
I need help designing and preparing impactful experiences for my event
I need help developing the main stage and in-room content for my event to bring my event to life
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I need help managing logistics of a virtual event
I need to quickly align my organization, leaders, or team around our goals for the future
I need to generate energy, engagement, and focus for our people during a challenging time for my organization, business unit, or team(s)
I need to catalyze change and/or transformation in my organization with a large event
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Format:
Virtual, in-person, or hybrid
1-hour; 1/2-day; 1-day; multi-day
Duration:
25-10,000+ (varies based on program objectives)
Capacity:
Event advisory
Experience development & facilitation
Virtual event enablement
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How we can support you and your teams
Product Launches
Initiative Rollouts
Celebrating
Year-End Meetings
Communicating New Goals
Team Building/ Networking
Defining and Driving Culture
Integrating Acquired Companies
Introducing New Leadership
Overcoming Difficult Times as a Team
Personal & Professional Development
Connecting Teams Across Functions
We help you with events in service of your organization. Embedding strategy and change at scale requires a deliberate focus on four critical elements.
Give teams the tools and education to execute
Activation
Lay out a vision for the future and inspire change leaders
Provocation
Ensure your entire commercial team shares a common language and goal
Alignment
Motivation & excitement to carry forward
Celebration
We’ve historically worked with a diverse set of clients who have used these kickoffs, meetings, and summits for different reasons depending on where their organization is in its lifecycle.
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Ownership
Purpose
Reflection
Intentionality
The why behind the work
It is the connective tissue, the story, that brings the entire experience together – enabling individuals to leverage their strengths to drive business outcomes.
The mindset that drives accountability
It is about creating opportunities for individuals to workshop concepts and ideas to empower and activate them – authoring is ownership.
The commitment to take action
It is about the practical and meaningful experiments individuals want to take to in the field – driving execution.
The space to personalize
It is the intentional space created for individuals to make sense of each experience and how it connects to purpose – making strategy personal.
How we make this all about your people and your culture
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Growth
Mature
Declining/New `S-Curve`
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Smaller or regionally-focused meetings, team building meetings, strategy development sessions.
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Generate culture. Create excitement about the future. Reassure through initial ‘growing pains.’
Galvanize an established culture. Align the organization on outcomes. Generate new business.
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Leadership alignment sessions, sales kickoffs, product launch events, acquisition integration events.
Events
Revitalize motivation. Overcome organizational obstacles. Maximize profit. Retain customers.
Key Objectives
Sales kickoffs, initiative rollout events, company retreats, business unit-specific events, year-end meetings.
Events
Inspire the team. Rebuild motivation. Communicate new strategies. Innovate.
Key Objectives
Leadership innovation summits, strategy development meetings, high-potential development sessions.
Events
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Read about how we partnered with a multinational software company to create a digitally-enabled summit that brought the organization’s global strategy to life.
Re-imagining a CEO leadership summit
Learn how we co-created a virtual experience with a global enterprise software corporation, successfully aligning the organization’s leaders to a new strategic direction.
Implementing the intelligent enterprise
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In Service of your team
Startup
Growth
Mature
Declining/New `S-Curve`
activities to ensure application and reinforce learning back on the job.
Execute
a platform for company leaders to go deep and explore business challenges and opportunities.
Company-led sessions
a facilitated post-simulation gathering to discuss performance and observed behaviors.
Debrief sessions
a realistic business simulation where participants joined cross functional teams to practice running the business.
Running the company
outlined priorities and the plan to execute the strategy.
Strategic planning
a case study reading exercise, which was modelled after the business and set the scene for the business simulation.
Pre-work
How we can support you and your teams
activities to ensure application and reinforce learning back on the job.
Execute
a platform for company leaders to go deep and explore business challenges and opportunities.
Company-led sessions
a facilitated post-simulation gathering to discuss performance and observed behaviors.
Debrief sessions
a realistic business simulation where participants joined cross functional teams to practice running the business.
Running the company
outlined priorities and the plan to execute the strategy.
Strategic planning
a case study reading exercise, which was modelled after the business and set the scene for the business simulation.
Pre-work
Give teams the tools and education to execute
Activation
Lay out a vision for the future and inspire change leaders
Provocation
Ensure your entire commercial team shares a common language and goal
Alignment
Motivation & excitement to carry forward
Celebration
Re-imagining a CEO leadership summit
Read about how we partnered with a multinational software company to create a digitally-enabled summit that brought the organization’s global strategy to life.
Read the case
Read the case
Learn how we co-created a virtual experience with a global enterprise software corporation, successfully aligning the organization’s leaders to a new strategic direction.
Implementing the intelligent enterprise
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