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A strategy program forteams facing
Will your teams cut the right costs, or just the easy ones?
Usually the easy ones: travel, training, the things that hurt later. This program aligns what to protect, what to cut and how to talk about it, in four one-hour team sessions.
Make it for your team
Execution readinessExample scores for a sample company. Add your website to estimate your own. Measured once your team plays. Ready at 80.
Where it usually breaks38Today81/ 100After the 4 team sessions
Ready to executeShared knowledgeHigh riskDifferent ideas of what is protected
Shared convictionHigh riskTeams fear the program is a first step to layoffs
Shared practiceMedium riskNo agreed answer when customers feel the cuts
4 sessions~50 min each8–12 people per teamNo facilitatorThe gap
What you'd typically hear if five of your managers answered alone.
SESSION 1 · FILL THE GAPSAnswered alone
Finish the sentence: in the cost program, the one thing my team must not cut is…MMira…headcount.
JJonas…anything a customer would notice.
AAylin…training. It is the first thing to go and the last to come back.
TTomas…our own budget. Others should go first.
RRosa…I don't know what is protected.
What it costs you if nobody notices
Shared knowledgeThe wrong costs go firstWithout a shared list of what is protected, teams cut what is easiest, not what is cheapest to lose.
Shared convictionFear does the cuttingIf teams think layoffs are next, the best people leave before any saving is made.
Shared practiceCustomers feel it firstWithout an agreed message, every team explains the cuts differently, and customers hear all of them.
The program that closes the gap
Four one-hour sessions. Every team, the same savings and the same message, this quarter.
Session
Shared knowledgeShared convictionShared practice
S1Know what is protectedAgrees what is protected, what is cut and who decides.
Shared knowledge1Agree the facts on what the cost program protects2Agree what is protected from cutsShared conviction3Decide together whether your team backs the CEO's call on…Shared practice4Agree as a team which costs to protect5Agree what your team protects
DemoS2Trust the reasonsShows you how strong the layoff fear is, and what would answer it.
Shared knowledge1Agree what the cost program protectsShared conviction2Compare your team's biggest risks against the CEO's3Decide the CEO's budget callShared practice4Agree which costs to protect5Decide the real action you'd take at each stage of a budget cut moment
DemoS3Make the cutsSorts real spending into keep, reduce and stop.
Shared knowledge1Sort real spending lines into keepShared conviction2Decide which costs to protectShared practice3Sort real spending situations into keep4Rank and align the four steps of cutting a budget in the…
DemoS4Talk about itPractises explaining the cuts to your team and to customers.
Shared knowledge1Agree the correct answers on what to protectShared conviction2Decide the training cut as the CEO wouldShared practice3Agree how to explain the cost cuts to your team4Rehearse explaining a budget cut to your team
DemoPlay it yourself · a short demo · one exercise from session 3 · Make the Call
Alone first. Then the team agrees on one answer.
This is a taste, not the whole session. “Make the cuts” runs 4 exercises with your own team, on a call or in a room. Here is one of them, on the real screens, played with four AI teammates, so you can feel how a session works.
Make the cuts · Make the Call00:00MJLSYouDecide which costs to protect and test your calls against the CEO's own cut logicOn screen: Reframe each of these 4 cost situations with the decision you would make alone
You are playing with 4 AI teammates. Every screen opens on its briefing: read it, then tap I’m ready.
Readiness intelligence · what you'll see as teams play
Know which teams are cutting the right costs, and where you should step in, before the savings cost you more than they save.
Acme Group › Readiness intelligence › Cost programEvery team saves in the same places, without cutting what matters
Readiness index81%Ready+43 pts25% participation + 25% progress + 50% alignment · Ready at 80
Shared knowledge48 → 88Shared conviction37 → 71Shared practice44 → 80
Participation94%2256 of 2400 people played at least once
Progress75%3 of 4 planned sessions completed
Alignment41% →78%7488 of 9600 points aligned
Failed alignment pointsWhere you should step in
What is protected from cutsNot aligned in 8 of 30 playsShared knowledgeYour sales and service teams · 7 teams
Is this program a first step to layoffs?"Not yet, we still have concerns" in 2 playsShared convictionYour operations teams · 6 teams
Your managers could play this next week. Add your website to make it yours.
- 01 · 5 minConfirm the assumptionsCheck what we inferred about you and edit any text in place. Your edits are locked.
- 02 · 1 link per teamInvite your teamAny browser, any device. No account, nothing to install.
- 03 · after each playWatch readiness fill inYou see who played, what they agreed, and where to follow up.
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