Retreats That Work® Facilitation Skills Training

At the end of this two-day session, participants will have learned how to:

• Determine if a retreat is the best tool for accomplishing your group’s agenda
• Gather data so that your retreat addresses the most important topics
• Design retreats that will keep participants focused on the desired result
• Employ innovative techniques to stimulate discussion and promote dialogue without having retreat participants wander off-track
• Work with retreat conveners to communicate effectively before, during, and after retreats
• Foster creative thinking to generate fresh ideas, solve problems, and make decisions
• Generate a sense of mutual responsibility for success among all participants
• Keep groups from getting stuck and get them moving again if they do 
• Manage difficult situations and work effectively with troublesome participants
• Help groups make decisions that garner widespread support
• Ensure that retreat participants determine action steps; assign responsibilities; and specify target dates, interim milestones and deadlines
• Coach executives to foster success before, during and after the retreat

We customize the Retreat Leadership Institute to fit your organization's situation and culture so the examples and cases feel very real to the participants. 

As an optional enhancement, we can co-facilitate retreats with participants to give them more in-depth experience and coaching in retreat design and facilitation.

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