🎙️Two Perspectives on Retreat Planning: Facilitator vs Event Planner: Part 2

Continuing with this part 2 of the conversation between Randall Craig, as leadership retreat facilitator, and Dwayne Rutherford, as corporate event planner, to share a behind-the-scenes look at how we help our clients focus on the goals of their executive offsite without distractions.

Topics include:

↳ Calculating the ROI of a corporate retreat: The cost of doing business and employee engagement

↳ Virtual retreats and development days: What is the role of virtual?, and

↳ What are teams doing that is getting in their own way and preventing best outcomes for the corporate retreat?

🎙️Two Perspectives on Retreat Planning: Facilitator vs Event Planner: Part 1

In this episode we are joined by Dwayne Rutherford TAG HIM], corporate event planner, to explore leadership retreat planning and execution from the dual lenses of Randall as facilitator, and Dwayne as event planner. Catch the full episode.

Topics include:

↳ What might we not understand about the corporate retreat industry, and corporate retreat planning?

↳ What are purposeful and goal-driving reasons to have a corporate retreat?, and

↳ Managing expectations for your corporate retreat.

Let’s talk about:

↳ How to demonstrate our impact on the outcomes of the event.

↳ Avoiding the biggest mistakes and challenges of planning an executive retreat.

↳ How to create an environment that is conducive to team learning.

↳ (And if you are considering holding a corporate retreat, what are the tough questions you should ask.)

There is one mode of learning that many leaders have not had experience with: A peer mastermind group!

Topics include:

↳ Go fast alone vs go far together

↳ Peer mastermind group vs professional association membership

↳ Facilitator or no facilitator (and do they need subject matter expertise)