For tips on:
 | Follow-up work after the retreat, click here | |
| Building 'Quality of Relationship' outside of the retreat, click here | |
| Willingness of participants to express their needs and / or approval of the retreat intent and desired outcome, | |
| click here |
Some interesting links in helping teams organize their retreat (Quality of Actions) :
| Retreat Planning Guide: http://www.managementretreats.com/html/planning_guide.html | |
| Site Planning Guide: http://www.casperwyoming.info/pdfs/Planning_SiteSelection.pdf | |
| Budget Planning Guide: http://www.casperwyoming.info/pdfs/PG_budget_Form.doc | |
| Team Building Games: http://www.buildingyourteam.com/team_building_tips/ | |
| Breakout Ideas: |
 | Open Space Technology: http://www.intentionaldevelopment.com/IntentionalDev/OpenSpace.htm |
| World Cafe: http://www.theworldcafe.com | |
| Breakout Groups: http://www.nps.gov/phso/rtcatoolbox/fac_breakout.htm | |
| Facilitation Tools: http://www.nps.gov/phso/rtcatoolbox/fac_activelistening.htm |
| Scenario and visioning work: |
| Appreciative Inquiry: http://www.ovationnet.com/ | |
| The ten steps of visioning: http://www.soulfulliving.com/visioning.htm | |
| The CEO's Refresher: http://www.refresher.com/!hmvisioning.html | |
| Scenario-Visioning: http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-scenario-visioning.html | |
| Impact of visioning on innovation: http://www.creativeadvantage.com/visioning.htm | |
| Using visioning in corporate planning: http://cecommerce.uwex.edu/pdfs/G3752.PDF | |
| Building Shared Visions: How to begin: Refer to the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, pg 312-326 | |
| What do we want to create?: Refer to the Fifith Discipline Fieldbook, pg 337-339 | |
| Backing into a Vision: Refer to the Fifith Discipline Fieldbook, pg 340 | |
| The Destiny Factor: Refer to the Fifith Discipline Fieldbook, pg 341-344 |
| "Tickling" our mental models: |
| Riddles: http://www.justriddlesandmore.com/logicquestions.html | |
| ... and more riddles: http://rinkworks.com/brainfood/riddles.shtml | |
| Death in the Desert game (scroll to pg 17): http://www.recoftc. | |
| org/documents/Workshop_Reports/0008_FacilitationCF.pdf | ||
| Describe all visible parts of a face on a flipchart. Almost always the raised ridge leading from under the tip | |
| of our nose to the top of the upper lip is left out! Try it out. Why do we do that? It is a part that we see everyday, yet we quite don't quite "see it". Also, nice to illustrate that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts. |