🎙️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)

How important is executive presence, and how much should it play into your hiring process?

Topics include:

↳ Executive Presence and Local Culture: Do core qualities of executive presence transcend geography?

↳ Executive presence and succession planning

↳ How best to elevate your executive presence

This episode is for leaders in their role as mentors and role models.

Topics include:

↳ Executive presence as a learnable skill: Can anyone get there or are some personalities better suited?

↳ Executive Presence vs Professionalism

↳ Having Hard Conversations: How do you talk about "executive presence" with your employees?

Gain new perspectives on how to incorporate greater efficiencies into your operations and processes so that your growth will be smoother – and faster..

Topics include:

↳ 4DX or alternative frameworks?

↳ Whose “job” is it to resolve inefficiencies?

↳ When head office won’t change… but you want to do something new in your division?

“Work smarter, not harder”, they say – but what does that mean exactly? Especially in growing businesses, leaders know what they know, but don't know what they don’t know…

Topics include:

↳ Is “getting ahead” a myth?

↳ How will AI impact how we work?

↳ How can we prepare for disruption?

Our 2nd segment on how and when to pivot.

↳ Should organizations buckle down or take more risks when there is uncertainty?

↳ When is an “inspiration to pivot” wise vs a distraction from testing the current business model?

↳ Organizational pivot.... or create a new business?