Prometheus Academy Overview

Strategy is the single-most important component of success for an organization. The Prometheus Academy is a five-day intensive seminar designed for leadership and management team members from organizations committed to developing and executing winning business and product strategies. Strategic success requires a strategic methodology. Venturist, Inc. developed and uses the Prometheus Process — a high-energy, high-probability of success methodology to create and execute winning strategies. The Prometheus Academy provides an opportunity to learn this process hands-on with leaders and managers from many different business disciplines.

Graduates are conversant with process, can facilitate Prometheus sessions, and can teach basic ideas. The Academy is ideal for the organization that wants its management team to understand and use a common strategy method and vocabulary.

Dates

The Prometheus Academy, conducted four times annually, is Venturist, Inc.’s premier Strategic Planning and Execution education program.

What Will You Learn?

At the Academy, participants learn and apply the Prometheus Process — a unique, holistic, start-to-finish strategic planning and execution methodology.

Scope the Environment.How to think about an organization’s operating environments.

Design the Future.How to build and measure high-resolution pictures of the future that an organization desires and how to craft the rules of behavior that will be an integral part of realizing the Future Picture.

Target for Success.How to understand your organization and markets (in system terms) in order to find the key Centers of Gravity (the leverage points) that will provide the most return on capital and personal energy investments.

Campaigning to Win.How to execute strategic plans based on parallel operations concepts in order to overcome system resistance and produce the highest possible probability of success at the least possible cost.

Finish with Finesse.How to craft exit points and exit plans to preserve gains and minimize penalties for ventures that do not proceed as conceived.

Cardinal Rules.How to use a handful of strategic principles to increase the probability of success in planning and execution.

Open Planning.How to capitalize on the intelligence and energy of the organization’s own people to create and execute winning business and product strategies in collaborative environments and how to use a strategic vocabulary to align people at all levels of the organization.

Red Teaming.How to find and overcome problems and obstacles before they occur.

Each Academy attendee receives the following materials–A $300.00 retail value.

• Planning Session Guidelines
• Prometheus Concept Summaries
• Prometheus Process Planning and Execution Guide
• CEO Guide to Executing the Prometheus Process
• Winning in Fast Time
• Prometheus Process Academy Presentations
• Case Study Workbook
• All Facilitation Templates and Laminates

The program consists of lectures and discussions on each part of the Prometheus Process followed by small group-mentored breakout sessions that provide the opportunity to apply the lessons just learned to a business case study. By the end of the week, participants have a working understanding of theory and practice alike.

Who Should Attend?

CEOs, executive and senior vice presidents, executive directors, directors, senior managers, division managers, business owners and other managers with strategic leadership, planning roles and requirements.

Costs

Fee per person $5,500. Fee includes materials, daily breakfast and lunch, two dinners, snacks and refreshments. Discounts are available for groups of three or more attendees from a single organization. Prometheus Academies may be organized and conducted for a single organization on-site.

Substitution and Cancellation Policy

Substitutions of registrants can be made at any time. Cancellations and transfers are subject to a 25% charge unless received in writing one week prior to the program. Registrants who do not cancel in writing prior to the program date and who do not attend are responsible for the entire fees.

Custom On-Site Training

If you need customized education and training at your location, we can craft a program for you. In addition to the four sessions each year at Venturist’s headquarters in Montgomery, Alabama, this course can be conducted on-site for groups of ten or more participants.