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Plan · Workshop Strategist
Not because the idea was wrong. Because the person who had to approve it heard "workshop" and thought "a day my team won't be shipping." The Strategist gets you past that conversation.
A workshop doesn't fail at 2pm on the day. It fails three weeks earlier, in an inbox, when the person who owns the calendar reads your ask and pictures a lost day. That conversation is the first workshop you run. The Strategist exists so you walk into it prepared.
Your stakeholder doesn't approve agendas. They approve outcomes. The pitch email names the problem in their language, counts the weeks already lost to it, and puts a decision on their desk by Friday. You add four details; it writes itself.
"We don't have time." "Just send a survey." "Can't you just present a recommendation?" You already know which one is coming. The coach hands you the script that answered it, word for word, so you walk in having heard it already.
Three questions about who's in the room and who actually decides. When the honest answer is "don't run it," the Strategist says so. Calling off the wrong workshop buys you more credibility than running it ever would.
"We don't have time for a workshop" is never a scheduling complaint. It's a bet that the decision will resolve itself faster in Slack than in a room. It usually doesn't. Six weeks of threads is six weeks, and it costs more than the half-day would have.
Every script in the coach flips that equation. You're not asking for time. You're offering to stop spending it.
No discovery questionnaire, no twelve-field brief. Six blanks in a sentence you'd say out loud anyway. The pitch, the practice, and the go/no-go are all built from those six answers.
I'm trying to run a half-day alignment session for a cross-functional group, so we can make a decision we keep postponing.
To make it happen, my VP needs to say yes, and I think they'll say “can't this be an email?”
Your sentence carries into the Planner: name, goal, duration, and date already filled in. The agenda starts where the pitch left off, so nothing gets retyped and nothing gets lost between the yes and the room.