Retreats

Our organizational and corporate retreat initiatives are not cookie cutter.  We make sure you get what YOU want. A well designed and well facilitated retreat can make all the difference in the world.  Retreats are important times when teams and employees can come together and have the opportunity, away from the chaos of your daily working lives, to talk about and improve how you work together.


 Combining your retreat with a corporate teambuilding component that uses the outdoors and experiential learning can increase the impact and effectiveness of your retreat.  Of course we can offer a more traditional indoor setting for a teambuilding activity too.  Regardless we can design a retreat to meet your specific goals and budget.

Gareth has facilitated hundreds of workshops and retreats over the last 17 years in almost any area to do with business and personal development.  Some examples are:
  • Meeting management
  • Conflict resolution
  • Teambuilding
  • Strategic planning
  • Leading and managing change
  • Leadership and management
  • Issues identification
  • Vision / Mission development
  • Executive and personal coaching
  • Implementation planning
  • Corporate Retreats

Key to our success is spending the time with you to fully understanding what your needs are and what you want to accomplish.  We then work with you build a custom designed retreat that delivers the results.   

Here’s our approach:  

 

 Initial Meeting With Client
Assessing and understanding the client’s need is crucial to developing a relevant and effective intervention.  Gareth meets the client up front and engages in a comprehensive interview process.  He partners with the client to clarify goals, ensure the right people will be present, determine success indicators and discuss the facilitation approach.


Proposal
Gareth will then prepare a detailed proposal describing the goals and deliverables.  A preliminary agenda for the day, the process and pre-work required to support the intervention and the estimated budget are all included.


On-site Facilitation
During the on-site facilitation Gareth meets regularly with the client to ‘check in’, measure performance and discuss the mood of the group.  Agendas are flexible and we are always ready to adapt and redesign to ensure we engage participants and meet the desired goals.  Meeting notes and Actions are recorded.

  
Post Session
After the session Gareth will collate all notes and meeting Actions into a Session Notes document for distribution to the participants.  A follow-up debriefing is also arranged with the meeting sponsor.

We tailor our approach to fit each client. You are unique.  We regularly travel to clients across Canada and the United States.

If you would like to discuss our retreat services for your organization please Contact Us!

 


…everyone thoroughly enjoyed the whole day.  It was well planned, focused, well paced and extremely relevant.  Ten out of ten!!
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Our experience has proven we can make a powerful contribution to your retreat’s success, producing tangible and lasting results. Our areas of expertise include:

  • People Development
  • Building and Leading Team
  • Mission / Vision Development
  • Strategic Planning
  • Leading Change
  • Performance Management
  • Merging Organizational Cultures
  • Meeting Facilitation

Retreat benefits can include:

  • Building ‘team’ in a non-threatening environment
  • Building alignment around vision and future direction 
  • Evaluating and learning from past performance
  • New team orientation
  • Having fun and getting to know co-workers
  • Developing leadership capability