Does this sound like your leadership team?
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You meet a lot but don't meet objectives. So important agenda items get moved to the next meeting.
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It often feels like things are taking longer than they should because decision making is unclear.
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You spend a lot of time putting out fires and getting team members back on track.
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You're devoting more energy to smoothing out interpersonal conflict than implementing your strategic plan.
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You are sitting on feedback that might improve the situation because you’re unsure how it will land. Or worse, we're all talking about what Deanna should be doing with everybody but Deanna.
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You and your peers are trying to execute on projects that are cross-functional by design in a culture where retreating back to your silos is the norm.
Underneath these challenges is the need to build or re-build the foundations of your team.
This is how we can partner to do just that:
We start with the Shared Ownership for Great Results Assessment©, which checks on several components, such as:
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Is there shared clarity on goals, expectations and values about how you do your work together?
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What’s the team’s capacity to work in a cross functional and collaborative way?
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Is there a commitment to regularly giving and receiving feedback?
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Do we know how decisions are made here?
This simple assessment allows us to target and tailor the right experiences for your teams.
My clients typically opt for some combination of these:
Consulting/Advisory
One-on-one guidance, support, and strategic advice tailored to meet your needs.
Targeted consulting to help you build shared ownership for getting great results and sustain those new habits
Ongoing coaching and support for senior leadership team members
Executive coaching
Retreats and Offsites
Great teams are not born. They’re made.
Whether you are humming along beautifully or struggling to collaborate, make decisions and solve problems, your team needs intentional, meaningful and researched ways to learn, connect, and realign as a team.
As I’ve seen common needs arise across teams, I’ve developed a series of engaging, inclusive retreat and offsite experiences that support teams to build shared ownership for great results:
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Senior Leadership Team Foundations Retreat
Solidify your team's shared ownership for great results. For leadership teams in transition, welcoming new members, or getting ready to engage in a strategic planning process.
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Two-day, in person retreat to make quick initial progress on the right habits and build the foundation for sustained effective teaming
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Summary report of actions to take in the next 3 weeks and habits to build over the next 3 months to maintain progress
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Quarterly check-ins to reflect on progress and make adjustments to get back on track
Team Culture and Alignment Offsite
Provide your teams a structured and engaging way to refocus on their big goals, reconnect with one another and feel re-energized for the work ahead.
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Two-day, in-person offsite in which I teach your staff how to build shared ownership for great results, help them reconnect with one another and feel re-energized for the work ahead
Getting Unstuck Workshop
Sometimes teams don’t know what is holding them back, and they need quick help getting “unstuck.”
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One or two day workshops to diagnose what’s working and what’s getting in the way, prioritize the highest leverage improvements, and action plan to make progress together
Assessment-Aligned Modules
Perhaps you’ve prioritized making progress on one specific skill or competency. I offer modules on:
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Giving and receiving masterful feedback
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Creating psychological safety
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Decision-making
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Understanding workstyles
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Creating agreements as a team
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Designing and facilitating effective meetings
What my Retreats and Offsite clients say
"Amanda is both an amazing strategic thought-partner and a strong facilitator of large leadership retreats, which has been a gift to us as a growing organization. She shows genuine curiosity about understanding the nature of any challenges we've been experiencing, be they large or small, and uses insights from those to shape the agenda flow and topics, as well as the choice of engaging and meaningful activities. The ability to dive right in with Amanda helps set her apart from other consultants, some of whom ask for a more prolonged set of listening sessions before being able to provide very tangible, actionable next steps."
Aurora Parrish, Senior Director of Internal Operations
Equal Opportunity Schools
Hire me to be your Staff Retreat Emcee!
Make the most of the time you have together as a full team.
Perhaps you already have an offsite on the calendar because you know you need to get your people together, but you don't know how to structure the time.
You likely know some of the content you want to cover but need a little support to bring it to life.
I thrive on tailoring the experience to meet your objectives and bringing next-level facilitation techniques to create gatherings that are engaging, inclusive and memorable.
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In just 1-2 retreat planning sessions, I get a download of your plans, hopes and logistics
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I provide feedback on your draft agenda and design your energizers and reflection sessions
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On-site, I play the roles of timekeeper, traffic director, energy watcher and leader of activities to reflect, connect and energize
What my Retreat Emcee clients say
"Amanda is a phenomenal facilitator and partner! She was able to quickly come up to speed on all of our organizational dynamics and then did an extraordinary job facilitating a two-day, in-person, all-staff retreat. She brought structure, skill, experience, fun, and a dynamic presence to make the gathering both productive and enjoyable for everyone on our team."
James Weinberg, CEO
FUSE Corps