Henry DeVries

MARCH 11, 2019

If you want to attract high-paying clients, one way of demonstrating your expertise is to hold a leadership retreat. But what do you focus on?

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Women in Consulting

AUGUST 17, 2017

I am huge believer in regular and focused retreats because they have been critical in the success of my business. My most recent retreat (July 21-22, 2017) with the Women In Consulting Leaders Network team was no exception. Fifteen of us gathered for just 1.5 I always leave feeling empowered and emboldened.

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Women in Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2013

By: Jennifer LeBlanc What is the value of a retreat? Yet very few actually give themselves permission to go on retreat. Yet, like exercise, the more someone says she doesn’t have time to do a retreat, the more I would argue that she does need one. I’ve even done silent meditation retreats for anywhere from one to six days.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2022

Three strategies to ensure yours isn’t an expensive waste of time.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 21, 2024

About My Guest: Chuck DeGroat is a licensed therapist, spiritual director, author of five books, and retreat leader/speaker. BUT before you give up on the engagement, listen into this episode for insight into this complex personality discover and personal growth strategies to help you deal with it.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2023

Retreat isn’t just inadvisable; it’s dangerous.

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Markovitz Consulting

APRIL 28, 2020

All bets are off right now, so you can either retreat (to the best of your ability) to the way things used to be, or you can take advantage of the totally changed landscape to run experiments that would have been too scary before.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The fear of the unknown often paralyzes us, causing us to retreat into familiar territories. Navigating the murky waters of transition can be an arduous voyage. As your host, I bring you a conversation with Dr. Chris Hoff, a man who boldly ventured into the unknown and emerged with a unique blend of business acumen and psychological insight.

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UPD Consulting

JANUARY 29, 2024

Email blasts from donors have flooded higher learning institutions, demanding a retreat from ADEI and threatening divestment. The New York Times recently revealed in an eyebrow-raising investigation the extent to which the backlash to ADEI has become a highly organized and concerted social and political campaign.

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Chad Barr

MARCH 20, 2024

Or consider Isaac Newton, retreating to his family home during the Great Plague’s isolation, embarked on his “Year of Wonders,” formulating the laws that underpin calculus, optics, and gravitation. Albert Einstein, fresh from the university of Zurich, with no job prospects, landed a role as a patent clerk.

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Alan Weiss

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It has become abundantly clear that, short of a vaccine, the virus is going to charge and retreat, charge and retreat. Thus, nothing is assured, long-term, except the fact that your clients and prospects will need help in adjusting. What are you doing to address this?

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 23, 2020

If you are engaging a client for a one-off retreat facilitation, perhaps a daily rate or flat project rate makes sense. There are many different ways that consultants can price their services including time based (daily or hourly), flat/project fee, value-based and retainers.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 5, 2021

You must stop from time to time to lay claim to the progress you have made and close off the option of retreating to a smaller version of yourself.” “Celebrate your accomplishments so thoroughly as to burn the bridge to whom you were before. This is extremely important, especially on a lifelong journey. ” Alison Armstrong.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2023

Plummeting flows of trade, capital, and people at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic prompted a wave of speculation about the end of globalization, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brought even more predictions of a retreat toward national self-sufficiency. The data shows a broad pattern of decoupling between the U.S.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Staying Aligned After the Strategy Retreat Effective strategy retreat facilitation can align executive teams around why they exist, what matters most, and who does what. Harvard business review reported that 61% of executives do not feel prepared for the strategic challenges they face.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 2, 2022

We went to Nantucket for our honeymoon, where I went ten years ago for a personal business retreat. Tune in for insights and tips on taking the daring leap into your second act and the dramatic change that can lead to greater success, significance, and happiness. I have big news, on May 14th, I got married to the absolute love of my life!

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Consulting Matters

MAY 12, 2022

We were both at a speaking skills intensive retreat hosted by Speaking Your Brand, which was an amazing experience for so many reasons. We also brainstormed different ways to position some of the program ideas she has been percolating on. You'll hear it all in real-time! Dianna and I had a unique business, "meet cute."

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

But sadly, up to 90% of strategic initiatives conceived at a strategy retreat are never fully enacted. Don’t leave your strategy retreat unless you plan to follow through. There’s no doubt that a sound strategic plan that everyone can commit to is critical to success.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Here are five strategies to ensure that your next team strategy retreat helps your team become better at prioritization: Ruthlessly Focus It’s essential to distinguish between what truly matters and what doesn’t. Invest the time and energy in your next strategy retreat to identify the top two or three priorities that matter most.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

62% increase in strategic clarity 75% increase in strategic alignment and commitment 29% increase in executive team norms and role acceptance This global and growing Digital Marketing Firm wanted to create senior team alignment to meet aggressive growth, EBIT, and hiring targets.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 30, 2024

This growing healthcare client wanted to create senior team alignment to meet aggressive growth targets while fending off increased competition and regulations.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a highly customized Strategy Session for Hospital Leadership to create leadership team alignment (..)

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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

AUGUST 21, 2017

These sessions may be informal leadership team strategy sessions or more formal strategic planning retreats. It’s getting to be that time of year again when many organizations start to think about holding strategy sessions. The post Why Use an Outside Facilitator for Strategy Sessions?

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LSA Global

JUNE 2, 2023

Most companies run annual corporate strategy retreats to agree upon the key strategic priorities for the next twelve to thirty six months. To learn more about how to challenge your current strategic direction, download Should You Facilitate Your Own Strategy Retreat? Is It Time to Challenge Your Current Strategic Direction?

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 28, 2020

Not a retreat, but a chance to advance. Set up a zoom room. By yourself, perhaps. Weird but do-able. Or possibly, bring a coach or a colleague. But only one person. No internet besides Zoom. Spreadsheets. Spend four hours in isolation, with nothing to do but figuring out what’s scaring you and what you’ve been avoiding.

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LSA Global

APRIL 1, 2024

The Bottom Line Crafting a strong strategic direction is not a one-time strategy retreat but an ongoing journey. A strong strategic direction is not rigid or inflexible but rather resilient and agile , capable of pivoting in response to new information or unexpected challenges.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Follow these five steps to creating a great meeting agenda for your next executive work session or team retreat. Any issue or challenge that they face as an organization can be better dealt with if they have a neutral and trained facilitator to guide the process and integrate participants' perspectives. Why is this meeting taking place?

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MishTalk

AUGUST 16, 2017

Construction spending for the second quarter is off to a slow start as judged by housing starts. The Econoday consensus was for a 1% rise. Instead, starts declined nearly 5% from the initial June report, now revised lower. more…).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Will we reinforce, rebuild, rebound, restrict, or retreat?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Organizational Strategy and The First Steps to Strategic Action Just as with chess, the first moves after your strategy retreat are critical to set you and your team up for successful strategy execution. Many top players report spending years studying different chess openings to see how they can improve their game.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 17, 2017

If you’re able to close the office door, retreat to a park bench, or find another quiet hideaway, it’s possible to hit reset by engaging in a silent practice of meditation or reflection. The journalist Andrew Sullivan recently described his experience at a silent retreat as “the ultimate detox.”

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Alan Weiss

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Strategy doesn’t fail in formulation, in those splendid retreats, with three-ring binders and electronic files filled with good intentions and “vision.” It’s fine to decide what you should be doing (strategic) but it’s vital to be able to execute well (tactics). ”

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2020

They talk through what to do when you want to network at a company retreat, your manager is bothered by your schmoozing with their peers, or you want to know about plum projects before they get assigned to someone else. Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Robin Abrahams, a research associate at Harvard Business School.

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 9, 2020

Even as we retreat from physical interaction, there’s a huge opportunity to actually connect, to learn and to understand. And what if we chose to learn something? All the time not spent commuting or in meetings–a chance to dive deep into the work of McCoy Tyner, or to understand how probability works.

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MishTalk

MAY 1, 2017

The divergence between Markit’s US Manufacturing PMI and the ISM’s “ Report on Business ” narrowed a bit today with both numbers retreating a bit but ISM cooling more. more…).

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BCG

JUNE 28, 2016

Saunders is orienting Allergan around opportunities and hope rather than retreat and pessimism. But despite slower growth in mature markets, pharma is still a high-margin business that can save lives. In his two-decade career in the industry, Saunders has gained a reputation as both a deal maker and an operator.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

You rarely have the chance to quickly alter the culture of a group the way you do when you organize a retreat or a meeting. How to organize a retreat. So many of the variables are within your control, and the outcome is often directly related to the choices you make. How to organize the room. How to run a (useless) conference.

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