Outrageous Predictions

Sometimes sales leaders wish to have a pair of large separate internal gatherings.

One for an end-of-year wrap, another for the new year's gee up.

Up 'til 2020 at any rate, this felt a preferred formatting.

We've long had Quarterly signpost meetings. Most have monthlies across the board. Many component teams also weekly, even daily. The Half-Yearly gained some traction at one time for the push into H2.

You might say the split in the two bookend styles was an excuse for doubling the fun. As the 'wrap' coincided nicely with the office Christmas party. With the final days of the selling calendar not yet done though, the final scores remained elusive.

So it's fair to say the lines got blurred.

I've noticed that the attraction of holding your off-site SKO with the new year well underway continues.

Its end-Jan, early-Feb staging still proving popular.

So in this spirit, should you be looking for a spot with a touch of levity, but able to pack a punch behind its facade, then here's another in a long line of ideas [most recently listed as footer here] for such a slot.

Outrageous Predictions.

You may need only pick three. Or five. Or go big with ten or more.

Whatever number, they can be hopeful fantasy to utterly nonsensical.

Their thrust being that within each there prowls a serious point you wish to make.

I came across this very idea from of all things, a Danish Bank.

Saxo had just such a list for 2026. They plumped for eight. Accessible across many channels from standard press release to rolling news clips and their own influencer-ing. For as they say, 'the future almost never arrives in straight lines'.

Incidentally, they start off with 'Quantum leap Q-Day arrives'. Later, Sixth, 'A Fortune 500 company names an AI model as CEO', a chilling mixture of Dice Man meets Illuminati.

You could even throw in one of your own that feels far-fetched, yet you sense may well have already happened.

In the same way a Finance House frames these in 'market impact', we too have similar. And in how we think about that from our own sales kick-off could well help us better prime for glory in the year ahead.