What if your Board strategic retreat:

• Was dynamic and exciting for Board and Executive alike
• Moved to value creation fast
• Contributed strongly to the company’s forward prospects?

Most Boards carve out a day or two away to have a concentrated opportunity to provide value. The run rate on the talent in the room is thousands of dollars per hour! As CEO, you want the highest value you can engineer from these encounters. The last thing you want are your prized members coming away feeling their time was even slightly wasted or that the meeting did not meet its potential.

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Your Board can profit by bringing in a veteran with years of strategic framing for organizations, someone who gets it – quick - and engineers real value from groups and useful tools of orientation to the future and real value creation is assured through Catalyst’s work.

An annual retreat is a fixture on most Company calendars. The Board will be open to a much more intense briefing on the company and the company will have much greater potential benefit from its Board members. This is the last place for tedious reports and unfocussed discussion.

External facilitation through Catalyst Strategic can bring:
• Life and high value to a Board retreat
• The interface with senior executive can be sparking and rigorous

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A not for profit Resource Institute – at a turning point with a new President and a new thrust – scheduled an annual planning retreat at a mountain resort.

The stakes were too high with a volunteer Board and an urgent new direction for the President to spend focus on organizing and directing the meeting. His leadership as a full participant was essential. He could not afford to be diverted by procedural, recording or social convening duties.

Catalyst Strategic was commissioned to take charge of the meeting process and looked after everything from logistics to agenda to recording in addition to providing high value intervention and direction to the meeting itself.

Board members felt their contribution in that meeting exceeded anything they had been able to bring before, that they got to know each other fully and well, and that they were able to tackle difficult issues with directness and dispatch. A new mark for meeting effectiveness had been set.

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Gerrit Maureau
President and CEO, Canadian Petroleum Institute

"Our first Board strategic retreat on my watch really had to come off superbly. Doug and Lyn gave me the personal attention, design, detailed planning and execution that ensured such an outcome. The test, of course, was our Board member reaction. They were extremely positive about the retreat and from that point forward have been most supportive. We launched a great year of significant accomplishment based on the excellent work done there. Great work!"