The Journey to Higher Ground
A powerful and practical retreat for your team
Bring your team and their challenges or opportunities together in retreat to deepen their connection and commitment, enhance their ability to work together as individual parts of a cohesive whole, clarify their sense of common purpose, direction, and strategic action … and get some good work done at the same time.
The Journey employs processes to enhance self- and group-awareness and behaviors, interwoven with processes applying the learning to the real-world challenges or opportunities that lie before you. The team’s work toward its business outcomes will be guided by skills development and professional facilitation, so that the net outcome will be better results, better relationships, and better processes to use in the future.
highlights of the Journey
The Lay of the Land
Committing to the Journey
Seeing with New Eyes
Focus on people/process/product
The Power of One
Where You Look Is Where You Go
Clarifiying Intentions
Expanding Comfort Zones
Building Trust and Support
Mapping the Road
The Rhythm of the Road
Diversity
Community
Intention & Attention
Communication
The Journey Is the Destination
Guiding Principles for the Road Ahead
Integration and Next Steps
Acknowledgement and Expansion
Format
The Journey can be undertaken over 2.5 to 4 days in retreat. It includes pre-retreat participant interviews or questionnaires to assess team functioning and perceptions, guide customized design, and bring awareness and accountability to team members. A 1-day post-retreat integration/implementation team-coaching session is strongly recommended.
“Oh my goodness - it turns out I love my colleagues! I had no idea we could actually cooperate at the levels we did. We had fun, learned a lot, and created a great plan for turning our issues into successes.”