Executive Team Retreats

Take A Step Back – Move Forward Faster!

Once or twice each year, your Senior Leadership needs to “get away” from day-to-day operations.  Together, you must assess results, celebrate successes, recalibrate direction and strategy, and reconnect with one another.  Often, these executive offsites are seminal events in your organization’s evolution.

The time you invest in these executive retreats is precious.  Venue selection, goals, tone and agenda deserve thoughtful preparation and skilled facilitation.  Three important goals at every offsite are for your Executive Team to:

·          Know one another on a deeper level

·          Structure more authentic, synergistic and effective communication, and

·          Encourage strategic planning, brainstorming and decision-making among team members.

All OnCourse retreats are carefully planned to achieve these goals.  Typically, we ask you to complete pre-retreat homework, which guides us in customizing the agenda to address the most pertinent challenges you face.  We also interview a subset – sometimes all – of your associates, to understand both the primary and latent issues they face, and the interpersonal dynamics within your leadership team.

Many executive teams – whether on their very first offsite or after years of experience – benefit from sharing stories, issues and personal aspirations in a non-judgmental setting.  They value the safety, candor and mutual support the offsite environment offers.  Grounded in trust and respect, an OnCourse Executive Retreat can move into a bold, free-wheeling exploration of vision, direction, strategy, corporate culture and organizational change.  Best of all, the experiential bent of all OnCourse retreats shifts your group from mere learning to deeper understanding, discovery and growth.

OnCourse retreat sessions interweave all elements of the Authentic Relationships model, tailored specifically to the Executive Team. We deal cleanly and directly with any issues that drain energy from team members or have mired them in the past.  We also address the Executive Team’s role – as individuals and as a group – in realizing and perpetuating the company’s long-term vision, both culturally and strategically.

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