Team Leadership Retreats

Executive Retreats and Meeting Facilitation

Executive Retreat - Meeting Design and Facilitation

Experience the benefits of a high energy experiential format that produces high action, involvement, and input.

Team Craft works with teams to maximize the benefits of off-site meetings. We plan with you to provide the atmosphere necessary for focused thinking that is lively, productive, and fun. We help you build effective working relationships. We utilize effective meeting processes that promote collaborative thinking among participants.

Build relationships, focus on important issues in an open setting, intersperse fun and insightful activities at important interludes

Engage in lively dialogue that's facilitated by a knowledgeable professional.

As relevant, leave with a written summary to focus implementation and follow-up.

Maximize participant involvement and gain buy-in to resulting plans.

We meet in advance - online or in person - with meeting stakeholders to understand your needs and objectives and then develop a plan for generating the results you want. Meetings typically last from 1 to 3 days.

We can support your Strategic Planning to fit your timeframe, using a team approach.

Use innovative tools for brainstorming, critiquing, and defining a plan. We can also facilitate an update to your mission, vision, and values.

Take time to identify an implementation plan that includes people skills and clear roles and responsibilities.

Meeting Facilitation: from Executive Team Meetings to Large Corporate Gatherings

Are you looking for a more productive way to conduct your next management meeting or gathering that will produce a more lively and engaging atmosphere?

Team Craft Experiential Meetings are facilitated to raise good questions, explore creative alternatives, and draw out everyone's best ideas to produce an agreed upon plan and identify team ownership and accountability.

We provide an engaging and fun team discussion and problem solving session. We involve everyone in lively interactions using well tested, yet innovative, meeting tools.

Use an On-line Discussion Forum before and/or after your next in-person meeting

New meeting technologies for both online and blended settings (an in-person and online mix) benefit from good facilitation skills. While these technologies make collaboration across distance and time possible, using them effectively can be a challenge.

Team Craft brings the power of an Action Learning environment to this new technology.

Also consider adding an on-line discussion forum to your meeting plan. It is a productive way to gather new ideas and learn about each other's work before an in-person meeting.

Shorten the “learning curve” for using new collaborative technologies.

Hold an online discussion forum blog prior to an Executive Retreat to make the most of limited in-person meeting time.

Team members from across time zones can access a forum when it is most convenient for them to read and post to discussion topics that focus on critical issues.

Participants can post thought provoking and insightful ideas on a level not typically experienced in a short meeting. The accumulated content of each discussion can be used to better focus and jump start an in-person meeting, or can serve as a way to keep a conversation going after time runs out in a meeting. The moderator can pose questions and poll the group as appropriate.

Research commissioned by the U S Army Research Institute has found that electronic discussions produce higher quality initial and final solutions to complex problems than time-limited face-to-face discussions. Participants operate in an environment that gives equal weight to all input, and input is better thought out before being shared.

Contact us to learn how we can support this service for your team.

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