Strategic Perspectives facilitated a hastily scheduled, "emergency" planning meeting of all mid-level managers in a corporate information system development department.  The objective was to identify strategies and near-term tactics to address a large number of inter-related issues that were seen as obstacles to effectively accomplishing their mission.  

The attendees gave the facilitator (and themselves) a standing ovation at the conclusion of the meeting.

Because of the last-minute nature of the engagement, we structured the meeting with limited understanding of their situation.  Although the group was diverse, and the managers were initially agitated by having to drop all previous plans for this three-day meeting, the group became focused and committed to the resulting plan.  The result was specific plan with tasking and milestones, presented to their senior management at the end of the meeting.