Business Retreat Program Topic & Activity Examples

Select from the options below or customize your own program. While program activities can vary depending on the size of the group and the setting, typically, a one-day retreat offers 3-5 program activities, a two-day retreat has 6-8, and a three-day has 10 – 15. The scope of the retreat is determined by its duration and the program goals. Longer retreats allow greater opportunity to cover the topic in more depth and have the potential of creating a more lasting impact. During your pre-planning consultation, we meet to select the specific topic(s) that will meet your goals for the retreat.

Sample Retreat Topic Choices that Address Organizational Needs

• Frustration Transformation: A way to transform any business frustration into a system solution
• Life Vision/Business Vision: The foundation for healthy work relationships and business success
• Leadership Launch Pad: Leadership tools for emerging leaders; a leadership model that inspires others to join the leader’s vision
• Empowering Work Relationships & Team Accountability: People Management Tools for healthy work relationships and predictable outcomes
• Operating Standards: Clarity that creates shared expectations about day to day business operations
• Business Infrastructure Building - The Foundation for Success: The organizational strategy/business framework needed to fulfill the business vision
• Key Progress Indicators: The indicators that measure your progress toward the fulfillment of your business and team vision
• Strategic Review Meeting: Strategic Update Meeting to measure progress and set goals for the upcoming quarter/year
• Target Market Definition & Marketing Positioning: The foundation for defining your most profitable customers and how to position your products and services to attract them
• Marketing Implementation Action Plan: A plan that ties marketing activities to the goals of the business vision

Sample Interactive Indoor and Outdoor Activity Choices that Build Skills and Support Retreat Goals

• Line-Up: How individuals perceive themselves within the group structure
• Helium Stick: How a team deals with a frustrating challenge
• Trust Sequence: Exploring how to create a safe environment that promotes trust
• Tanagram: Creating order out of chaos; how leadership emerges through teamwork
• Star Shape: Working collaboratively to produce a desired result
• Blindfold Squares: Communicating a vision and cooperating to accomplish it
• Spider Web: Collaborative risk taking in an environment of personal accountability
• Tumbler Walk: Cooperating to achieve a goal in a risky situation
• Turn the Tarp: Creative problem solving that requires complete cooperation