Tom KrieglsteinFounder, Global Keynote Speaker, Swift Kick Leadership · Founder and Award-Winning Keynote Speaker at Swift Kick Leadership

How Strategic Retreats Drive Team Success

Name: How Strategic Retreats Drive Team Success
Uploaded: 2025-09-23T17:01:41+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Tom Krieglstein
Description: In this YouTube monologue, Tom Krieglstein explains Swiftkick’s Quarterly Strategy Retreat Day, a company-wide pause from daily work where every employee…

23 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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In this YouTube monologue, Tom Krieglstein explains Swiftkick’s Quarterly Strategy Retreat Day, a company-wide pause from daily work where every employee adopts an “owner” mindset to plan the next three months. The retreat involves defining a quarterly theme, selecting key projects, assigning project owners, and building a detailed three‑month timeline. Tom emphasizes that stepping back to strategize is essential for the growth of any team, organization, or community, urging leaders to regularly allocate time for forward‑looking planning.

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Hey everyone, it is Tom here and today is Swiftkick Quarterly Strategy Retreat Day. What that means is everyone in the company stops their day to day operations. We all put that owner hat on and we think about what we're going to do for the next three months. For Q4 within Swiftkick, we come up with a theme, we come up with the projects, we talk out who's going to be in charge of the projects, and we also focus on building out the timeline so that we all know exactly what we're going to do for the next three months. Does your team step back and take time to think about what you're going to do for the next three months? If not, it is a critical part of the growth of any team, organization community to have the leadership team step back, think about the future, and make a plan.