Strategic Planning Retreats

A strategic planning retreat facilitated by The Retreat Professionals will bring a new dimension to your organization's focus and direction. Whether a business, educational institution, government agency, non-profit or trade association, you will find a strategic planning retreat to be effective, renewing and energizing.

The process used by The Retreat Professionals begins with a discussion with key executives about the proposed outcomes of the retreat. We then provide a detailed outline of the activities and processes that will be used at the retreat to reach your desired outcome.

Identifying critical issues is usually the first step of the retreat process and begins in advance of the retreat itself. We administer a web-based survey of your retreat participants, followed by individual interviews if needed. We can also survey stakeholders to get an objective outside look at the key issues facing your organization. The results of this data-gathering will become an integral part of the retreat process.

On-site at the retreat, we work to create an atmosphere which stimulates open dialog, outside-the-box thinking and critical review. We facilitate the discussion in a way which brings out the participants' best thinking. And then we move through a series of exercises and planning steps that result in the expected outcomes, including an action plan for implementing the renewed vision and energy generated at the retreat.

And we sprinkle into the event a liberal dose of humor, teamwork, and mood lightening that encourage creativity and avoid the retreat-burnout that so often happens in other settings.

At the conclusion of the retreat, we provide a copies of pre-retreat data gathering, a summary of the outcomes, the action plan outline, and, when appropriate, our recommendations.

So whether you need to create a new mission statement and vision, or whether you just face challenges either internal or external to the organization, a strategic planning retreat conducted by The Retreat Professionals can focus the energy of your executives, managers, and/or board members to deal with what matters most.

Please contact us today so that we can help you do some of your most important work ever at a high-energy strategic planning retreat.