Off-Site/Retreat
You’ve decided you want to take your team off-site –away from the hustle and bustle of the workplace – to focus on an important, pressing issue. Especially when time is of the essence, you need to stay focused on the topic at hand, and maintain healthy relationships among the participants, it’s a good idea to hire a professional facilitator to keep intellectual order.
That’s where we come in. As professional facilitators, we spend a little time up front with the “sponsor” and/or leader of the team. We meet (either face-to-face or by phone) to achieve clarity and alignment on:
- The Objectives and Deliverables
- The Process
- My Role as a Facilitator
- The Composition of the Team
- Agreement on Next Steps including prework and/or interviews
Creating the agenda is a collaborative process. Our job is to “make things easier” and help you be successful. Based on these results, we design a process tailored to meet the specific needs of the sponsor and the participants.
We then facilitate the session, following the collaborative agenda, ensuring the objectives are met while modeling effective facilitative and team behaviors.
Within one week following the off-site, we will transcribe the final results in MS Word format and emailed a final copy.
Additionally, one month after the workshop, we will contact the sponsor to evaluate progress, provide coaching and to discuss next steps, if necessary.
