Kick Start Retreat
A 'Smart Launch' Process
Starting a team off on the right foot is an important investment in future success. Launch your new team in the right direction with a Kick Start Retreat based on a simple but essential three point model: clarifying purpose, building relationships, and sharing information.
This retreat can certainly be customized to your specific needs. As a starting point, here are a sampling of objectives and some of the elements you might expect in the flow of such a program.
Objectives
To consolidate and strengthen a team that is in the early stages of working together. More specifically:
- to welcome and integrate newer members into the team
- to strengthen team relationships, appreciating each others' uniqueness and differences while anticipating pinchpoints due to style differences
- to explore and set intentions for our best practices in working together
- to reinforce the importance and value of the work we do and focus on the team's purpose and beginning directions
- to anticipate how best to support each other in the future
Overview of Approach
- A Simpler Way – Introducing Wheatley's model of self organizing systems: clarifying purpose, building relationships, and sharing information.
- Exploring Who We Are – surfacing common interests, sharing unique experiences, revealing values
- Refining How We Work Together – identifying behavioral style differences (strengths and potential pinchpoints, exploring exceptional experiences in collaboration and defining best practices in working together
- Tapping Into Purpose – clarifying team's purpose and direction, identifying how you'll know you have made a difference, and planning to keep purpose and progress front of mind
- Launching Actions – first steps, small wins, points of leverage
- Keeping Connections Current – anticipating issues of load and staying connected in the months ahead
What's Your Next Step?
Contact Pat for help in getting a new team started in the right direction.
If your team is already well underway and finds itself in an overload / overwhelm situation, searching for ways to 'stop the insanity', check out information on the Re-VITAL-ize Retreat.
Review Pat's Service Sampler Overview for a more complete list of suggestions for how to put Pat's programs and services to work for you.
