💥Making change stick: Post-retreat momentum and accountability Part 1

There’s the retreat that comes and goes, and then there is everything that has to be done afterwards. Let’s talk about how to integrate the ideas and ahas from the retreat into your organization’s culture and processes post retreat.

Topics include:

↳ Best practices to create post-retreat accountability

↳ Post-retreat accountability issues… or more general issue of the culture of accountability in an organization?

↳ The impact of having the CEO or other internal team members facilitate vs having an external facilitator (ego… vs role modeling to your team)?

💥Beyond Numbers: Business Leadership for CFOs Part 2

Finishing up our recommendations to CFOs who are career planning, or succession planning. As always, the meta program here is learning how to think like a leader, and the concepts discussed are applicable to senior leaders in any role.

Topics include:

↳ How to get the experiences to be an expert and influential CFO

↳ Opportunities for collaboration between CFO and marketing

↳ What can a CFO do to be more successful?

This session is for CFOs planning their next career moves, however the career strategy tips discussed here are applicable to any senior leader looking to reflect on their next career move, or succession planning for their organization.

Topics include:

↳ The lifecycle of CFO: Average CFO tenure, and what can a CFO expect from their career

↳ Managing the CEO/CFO relationship

↳ Removing barriers that prevent CFOs from operating at full capacity

💥Leadership Retreats: Mistakes to Avoid Part 2💥

Learn from the mistakes of others and have your most productive leadership retreats yet. Stand on the shoulders of our best leadership retreat suggestions.

Topics include:

↳ Using an internal facilitator vs an external facilitator

↳ What leaders need to change about their perspective on leadership retreats?

↳ The impact of alcohol on retreat success: Should drinking be part of the agenda?

💥Leadership Retreats: Mistakes to Avoid Part 1

For a deeper dive into how to plan and structure your executive offsites and team development for max impact, we are sharing here the recording of our very popular opening-the-kimono knowledge share Q&A session on leadership retreats mistakes to avoid.

Topics include:

↳ Corporate Values: Being strategic to highlight and reinforce desired corporate values and behaviors into the retreat design

↳ Addressing the elephant in the room

↳ Team building activities vs relationship building activities

💥Who's Running Your Company: Achieving High Employee Engagement Part 2

Closing out this important topic on the core leadership skill of engaging our employees. We are all moving at high speed; let’s take this half hour to try to get into the heads of our employees to help them do their best for you and your organization, and vice versa.

Topics include:

↳ How does an eager, motivated, capable, resourceful new employee end up checked out, burned out, and disengaged…?

↳ Making the business case for a budgets for employee engagement investments such as training, retreats, etc.

↳ How to give our employees the space to recommit to the organization and reengage.

💥Who's Running Your Company?: Achieving High Employee Engagement Part 1

Understanding how to develop a loyal, diligent, and high-performing team is a key leadership skill… and yet, all the stats point to the same thing: Employees have become disengaged from their work in record numbers. If this is true at your shop… who’s running your company??

Topics include:

↳ Is 100% employee engagement even possible?

↳ How can leaders and managers know they have done enough to support, motivate, incentivize their employees to engage them?

↳ Evaluating employee engagement at the individual level vs the staff as as a whole.

💥Succession Planning: Future-Proofing Your Organization: Part 2

In part 2 on this topic, we close up talking about the tight connection between employee engagement and succession planning, as well as personal brand development of key employees as part of succession strategies.

Topics include:

↳ How long does it take to bring someone up to the executive level?

↳ When boards succession plans: How to get boards on side?

↳ Personal brand development as part of succession planning strategies