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Making Change Stick: Post-retreat Momentum and Accountability
Making change stick: Post-retreat momentum and accountability
About this session:
Your team meets for your annual offsite… but what happens after the retreat?
Is there new energy, momentum, and a lasting impact on your organization… or… nothing? Zero change.
The goal of a corporate retreat is not the retreat – it’s to move the needle: build alignment, a stronger team dynamic, and lasting change. Spend an hour with us to learn how to activate this change when your team returns to the office:
• What seeds have to be planted before the retreat?
• The role of the CEO at the retreat
• Different takes on the retreat agenda
• Techniques for building accountability
• Reinforcing the learning and change
Retreat Planning Resources
Here are some resources to help you plan your best-yet leadership retreat.
CHOOSING A FACILITATOR
What should you be asking a potential executive offsite facilitator?
What would a good answer look like? And what would a right-fit-for-your-organization answer look like?
Download the 10 Tough Questions to Ask a Retreat Facilitator.
RETREAT KICKOFF SCRIPT
CEO Retreat Opening Remarks Blueprint
Gather your thoughts and give yourself the piece of mind that you will kick off your retreat like a pro with this retreat opening remarks outline.
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AVOID COMMON MISTAKES
7 Mistakes to Avoid on Your Leadership Retreat
Avoid these common offsite planning mistakes to make sure your retreat investment goes smoothly and has max impact on your organization.
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Making change stick: Post-retreat momentum and accountability
Topics Discussed in the above recording
• Best practice tips on creating post-retreat accountability (01:12)
• How much of the issue of “post-retreat accountability” is fundamentally related to a retreat vs the general culture of accountability in an organization? (12:08)
• The impact of having the CEO or other internal team members facilitate vs having an external facilitator (ego… vs role modeling to your team)? (16:39)
• How do you involve the CEO in an executive offsite as “one of the leaders” rather than as “the boss”? (19:32)
• How do you handle entrenched interpersonal issues between members of your leadership team that continue to take up space at executive retreat? (23:43)
• “Clean up” i.e. getting the new inputs a team needs to help them resolve their issues (30:06)
• Managing post-retreat expectations: Waning enthusiasm and reduced application as time passes… (33:49)
• When leadership team members are resistant to new ideas and feedback: can pre-retreat coaching for inflexible leaders help retreat outcomes? (40:18)
• How do you handle retreat participants who take a long time to come around to ideas? (45:38)
• How can we measure if our retreat was successful at building consensus and building our team? (47:33)
• How can we get everyone on the team to understand and sync up with the organizational strategy? (51:46)
• True or False: It would seem that the healthy the work culture, the better the retreats will go. (58:07)
• How can you resolve an issue with the leadership, when they aren’t going to voluntarily share their toxic traits with you? (60:00)
• What value can an internal survey have when team members are unlikely to report significant issues for fear of being identified? (62:00)
What people said about this session
“That was a great session, thank you!” – Ann Marcoux, HR Specialist, Speaker, Workshop Facilitator and Coach
“I enjoyed listening to the perspectives and I do think that the session met my objectives: I appreciated being able to step away with a couple of new/cool facilitation ideas from both Randall and Ronja.” – Dean Fulford, Practice Leader, Stradford
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“That was a great session, thank you! Randall and Ronja are great collaborators with a great dynamic – I love it. I am looking forward to participating in other sessions to increase my knowledge.” – Ann Marcoux, HR Specialist
“I enjoyed listening to the perspectives and I do think that the session met my objectives. I appreciated being able to step away with a couple of new/cool facilitation ideas from both Randall and Ronja.” – Dean Fulford, Practice Leader, Stradford
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