Consulting · Workshops & large groups
Facilitators for your retreat: experienced, qualified, respectful.
Are you looking for an experienced facilitator for your retreat? Do you want to plan the future with your colleagues and employees, agree on topics, create action plans together, implement change projects efficiently, take decisions, address questions about the future? Here you will find experienced and excellently trained facilitators for your retreat.
Typical Topics of Strategic Meetings
- Committee meetings of works councils, employee representatives, etc.
- Newly constituting committees
- Strategy: individual workshops on strategic topics
- Team and collaboration
- Developing a shared mission statement
- Conflict resolution and conflict management
- Focus on the end customer with the Design Thinking method
- Innovation workshops
- Leadership workshops
- Leadership development
- Leadership conferences
- Change management workshops
- Workshops on Process Optimisation and Workflow Improvement
- Retreats on all topics of organisational development
Who Do We Work for?
- For companies and organisations of every size,
- NGOs,
- NPOs,
- the public sector
- all organisations that want to achieve valid results in a short space of time
Our clients are a diverse group: here you can see some of our references!
Moderator for your Strategic Meeting: these are the Advantages
The facilitator of a retreat keeps the proceedings efficient and makes sure that all voices and positions are heard. An external facilitator is always impartial and neutral.
As an expert in group dynamics, they can take the methodological and didactic approach and adapt it to the current situation at any time. They make sure that the group always remains capable of acting and making decisions.
If you have your retreat facilitated externally, this brings the following advantages:
- 01
You can concentrate fully on your own subject matter
- 02
You avoid conflicts of interest that arise if you facilitate and at the same time hold a stake in the content
- 03
We offer the highest level of professional expertise
- 04
We are method professionals and make sure that all participants have their say in equal measure
- 05
We use varied and activating methods, so that everyone keeps thinking along
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We guarantee that you will always reach the objectives you have defined, at the quality required.
Moderation of Strategic Meetings with an Effective Approach
In our workshops, we use highly effective methods. You get:
- a well thought out workshop design, tailored to your needs and objectives
- individually and carefully selected methods, so that you reach your objectives within the time available
- activating arrangements and new methods, so that thinking together is enjoyable
- a varied workshop design that involves all participants and, through an intelligent choice of methods, makes sure that everyone takes an active part.
Special Formats
For some particularly challenging situations in the team, special formats are suitable:
01
Team facilitation
to rebuild a team, for example after a change of managing director or when particularly large challenges have to be mastered
02
Conflict mediation
to address hidden or open, escalated or smouldering conflicts in the team, so that bound-up energy is released again and work becomes more enjoyable for everyone directly and indirectly involved
Our approach
We Listen
To understand what is at stake with you: history, context, the quality of results you want, how you plan to use the results, how they will be carried over into your regular processes.
We define objectives
… together with you. So that all sides know exactly what is to be achieved – and what can be.
We design proceedings that activate and motivate
… so that the agreed objectives are reached in the time available.
We always have a "plan B" up our sleeve
We stay flexible in workshop facilitation and respond to changed requirements with a sure touch and a great deal of experience.
We take care of things
… on request also of infrastructure, materials, catering and so on (full service – if that is what you want).
Our Moderators for Strategic Meetings
Our facilitators for retreats are excellently trained.
We are:
Change managers and organisational developers
with a solid theoretical grounding
experienced facilitators and consultants
with a toolkit full of varied and activating workshop methods
who regularly complete training and continuing education
and so have a broad theoretical grounding
are analytically strong thinkers
with many years of professional experience
are specialists
in their respective fields
Method specialists
for varied and activating proceedings
Profiles of our Strategic Meeting Moderators
The Strategic Meetings We Moderate are Characterised By
- Intensive preparation – on content, method and logistics
- we tune the workshop design individually to your objectives and needs
- effective, varied and powerful workshop methods
- professional workshop design and didactic dramaturgy
- a facilitation climate that is friendly to innovation
- immediate and lasting activation of all participants
- good time management
- a well-developed visualisation of the discussions
- from experienced workshop facilitators who continually keep training and are regularly supervised
- a mix of consulting and facilitation at the same time
- a detailed photo record of the results shortly after the event ends
- we always keep an eye on the group process
- we address disturbances, conflicts, resistance and crises and use them productively in the further course of the process
Conception of your Retreat
As experienced facilitators of retreats, we rely on
- activating methods
- plenty of "movement" in the mind, but physically too (you can read why this matters here in Workshop methods)
- a high level of interaction among everyone involved
- structured extraction of participants' experience and knowledge
- Generating a measurable gain in knowledge for the whole group
- plenty of room to exchange experience in plenary and to benefit from the knowledge of others
- activating group exercises to "digest" the topics covered, where needed
Preparation for your Retreat
- To prepare workshops we hold detailed preliminary conversations, not only with the client but where possible with other members of the team as well. That matters, because it gives us a full picture of the problem and of the needs within the group.
- With this input we work out a workshop design agreed with you and tuned to your needs.
- In our work as facilitators and consultants we always maintain an impartial stance and make sure that all the essential perspectives and aspects can be voiced.
Facilitation of Retreats: your Benefits
Saves time and budget
You are guaranteed to reach your objectives within the time set
Quick implementation
… through a strong boost to motivation: little is more motivating than setting goals together and then delivering them together
Existing knowledge is put to best use
All participants contribute actively and with motivation to the topic
Gain in knowledge
Activating arrangements connect knowledge and experience in new ways in the brain, so that new knowledge and new insights can arise
High resilience
Solving strategically important questions about the future at your retreat strengthens your organisation far beyond the workshop
Efficiency
We have proven methods – you reach the objectives agreed beforehand
Security
Even in the most difficult situations we always have a “plan B” in our pocket
Our customers value us for the following
- the systemic approach: effects usually have several causes. To achieve lasting change, looking at individual influencing factors is rarely enough.
- the "art of the good question": questions that fit the situation and are sometimes thought "outside the box", opening up new perspectives and helping the group move forward in its thinking.
- the ability to reflect back what is happening in the group right now: resistance, structures, mechanisms, hidden connections…
- well-judged leadership: Groups usually have a great deal of knowledge and experience gathered in them – but sometimes it takes an impulse and good timing to lead discussions onto new "fertile ground".
- rigorous visualisation: so that everyone knows at any moment where things stand
- versatile methods: varied proceedings that suit the moment wake tired minds and lift the overall energy of a group.
- Instinct: for what lies between the lines and has not been said.
- the detailed photographic record, shortly after the end of the event.
Free initial consultation
We discuss your challenge together
We set out possible solutions
If you are interested in taking things further, we draw up an outline proposal
Costing of the work involved
Retreat planned, capable facilitation wanted? We have 21 years of experience!
A free initial consultation on your specific situation.
What our clients say
What clients say about working with us
A very helpful, well-run workshop. The results served us well through the restructuring phase too.
The strategy workshop was exceptionally productive. You kept the group focused on what mattered throughout. We recommend your facilitation without reservation.
It was striking how much came out of our workshop. That was outstanding.
Many thanks again for the excellent collaboration, the organisation and the very good workshop results.
I am very happy with the consulting. The workshop moved us a long way forward. Thank you.
You prepared our workshop thoroughly and precisely. Both the method and the facilitation fitted our objectives very well. We were able to carry on working very successfully with the results. Many thanks.
Four days of workshop and still playful, creative, inspiring and well structured, with good methodology. Thoroughly recommended.
Thanks again for the excellent workshop — we have already started putting the first ideas into practice, and enjoying it.
I thoroughly enjoyed working with you, personally and professionally, and it was a great pleasure to run this workshop with you.
You facilitated our two-day strategy workshop very professionally. It was a demanding brief and the result is very good. Thank you for that.
A big thank you for facilitating the workshop. We came out of the day as a team, with a good sense of togetherness and a clearer picture of the way ahead. The workshop was well worth it.
Thanks again for the excellent workshop — we are very happy with the outcome.
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Want to Learn more?Free initial consultation
We have 21 years of experience!.
A free initial consultation on your specific situation.