Monday, 29 September 2014


cullede from:wikihow.com

Leadership retreat planning is an important step in launching your company’s fiscal year. Here are our best tips for planning a successful corporate leadership retreat.

Steps

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Narrow Your Focus. When you narrow your focus, you can harness power like a laser beam. Therefore, consider choosing only one or two areas to focus on during your retreat, in order to produce specific results and action steps for the most important business challenges your company faces

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    Set the Ground Rules. This is good information for any kind of group meet: Decide on the ground rules, share them at the beginning of your event, and insist that all participants adhere to these guidelines.
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    Keep It Simple.Do not fall into the temptation of over-planning your leadership retreat.
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    Keep Your Eyes on the Prize. While planning your leadership retreat, always keep in mind your main goal.
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    Abstain and Refrain. Resist the urge to incorporate alcoholic beverages into your leadership retreat.
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    Don’t Stand Down. When someone breaks a ground rule, don’t stand down. When ground rules are agreed upon by the group, it diminishes the group experience when those ground rules are not enforced.
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    Emphasize the Takeaway. Remember, the whole point of the leadership retreat is to create a plan of action and instill positive changes to resolve at least one of the company’s challenges.
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    Communicate the Strategy. Upon returning back to the office, the new strategy and action plan needs to be effectively communicated to the rest of the staff.
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    Execute Action. All is for naught if no action is taken. The final step will occur (and continue) long after the retreat has ended: action.

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