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Hosting the Perfect Company Day

Based on my own personal experience as a former CEO I will be offering a number of guided steps that you can follow when designing and hosting your next management retreat or company day. 

Powered by a few methodological scaffolds and easy-to-use software resources examples this book is designed to help you host your next management retreat or company day. 

Full of fresh insights on the notion of 'architecting collaboration', this book also alerts about the major pitfalls you should be avoiding and the common mistakes most meeting planners do when preparing this type of events. 

Most often, they miss a unique opportunity for better architecting collaboration inside your organization and making it more agile and attentive to the signals of change that never should be left unnoticed. 

Why this book?

I am convinced that all organizations have a culture that holds a major set of shared values and beliefs, but like a persons' soul, it is difficult to tangibly describe it. Company days are one of those rare moments where a company culture can express itself and become visible. 

Why not to offer a new angle to your next company day or management retreat with the lens of a collaboration architect? You can check a short news about my latest work here.

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Co-create this book with me

If you think you are not ready to propose hiring an external facilitator or that your company is small and lacks the resources, you can still make a difference to your next company day or management retreat. 

You can join me and be part of the research I am conducting for this book.  You will be able to learn a few basic principles about group facilitation that you or anyone in your team could then apply, whilst maximizing the quality of your meeting outcomes.

If you are in charge of a management retreat or a company day and want to offer your organization as a case reference for this book, please contact me

A trustful guide on the side

Whenever you take your team for a management retreat or are invited to attend one as a manager, why not taking on board a group facilitator that can help you make such reflection time much more engaging and productive? 
Together we will:
  • Jointly investigate how your company culture can have a decisive impact on your organization productivity, just by influencing the way daily meetings should be run.
  • Understand how meeting's effectiveness is at the cornerstone of a truly collaborative workplace 
  • Discover how to become a more autonomous and assertive organization that saves thousands of hours spent on non-productive email conversations and saving the cost of corrective actions of poorly made decisions.  
  • Create plans that are consistent with the desires and aspirations of the ones who are going to implement them rather than superimpose a course of action that is accepted based on the fear of being fired.  

Graphic resources

A trained facilitator will be able to help you apply a number of graphical resources to structure your group discussions, such as these ones from the Grove Consultants that you can order here.

Software resources

Increasingly popular, the use of groupware in workshops and management retreats is another way to make the most of your participants time spent in such important gatherings. A trained facilitator can help you design the meeting agenda for a year-on-year agile action review, or simply to update a SWOT analysis of your business with the latest thinking from your management team. Find out more here. 
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