From Informed Decisions: Conversations and Q&A with Randall Craig and Ronja Francoeur

From Informed Decisions: Conversations and Q&A
with Randall Craig and
Ronja Francoeur

Planning Your Best-Yet Corporate Retreat

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About this episode: 

A corporate retreat is a huge investment in time and money for our clients, so how can we help our clients keep focus on the goals of the offsite without distraction?

Let’s talk about:

•  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 planning a corporate retreat, what are the tough questions you should ask.

Part 1

Part 2

Topics Discussed (with timestamps)

•   What might we not understand about the corporate retreat industry and corporate retreat planning? (03:04)

•   What are purposeful and goal-driving reasons to have a corporate retreat? (06:25)

•   How the environment of the corporate retreat impacts the outcomes of the retreat (12:28)

•   Using an external facilitator and/or training or using someone in-house (a member of the leadership team, CPO, HR, etc.) (14:50)

•   How many people works for a corporate retreat, and how does the number of participants impact the retreat? (19:07)

•   Managing expectations for your corporate retreat (24:35)

•   The Halo Effect after a retreat: What causes it and how can we maximize it? (27:22)

•   Calculating the ROI of a corporate retreat: The cost of doing business and employee engagement (01:48)

•   Virtual retreats and development days: What is the role of virtual? (10:47)

•   Virtual/hibrid retreats vs virtual/hibrid meetings and professional development? (15:06)

•   If we can't get everyone together, what can we do as an alternative to virtual? (17:03)

•   What are clients doing that is getting in their own way and preventing best outcomes for the corporate retreat? (18:32)

•   How do egos and the desire to control impact a corporate retreat? (22:46)

•   What do you do in a corporate retreat setting when it's clear the CEO is the real problem? (27:05)

•   What has to happen after the corporate retreat to retain the learning and momentum? (30:36)

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