Retreats That Work Everything You Need to Know About Planning And Leading Great Offsites

Retreats That Work: Everything You Need to Know About Planning and Leading Great Offsites is a comprehensive handbook for creating offsite retreats that get results and rave reviews from participants. This greatly expanded and updated version is based on the best-selling first edition. It contains forty-seven new activities, more information about how to design and lead retreats, and additional suggestions for how to recover when things go wrong. It also includes a CD-ROM that allows readers to print out chapters for distribution to key leaders, duplicate templates, and produce handouts for specific exercises. Whether you are planning to lead an offsite retreat for the first time or the ninety-ninth time, Retreats That Work is an invaluable, practical, easy-to-use guide, full of step-by-step instructions for leading a wide variety of tested exercises. Retreats That Work is your one-stop resource. It explains what you need to know about Establishing effective working relationships with your clients Deciding what to include in your retreat designs Encouraging participants to speak up and play an active role Managing conflict Making decisions during a retreat and changing course when necessary Developing and implementing action plans Following up to keep the change train on track "The Litemans and Campbell have served up a delightful, wonderfully written, accessible, and invaluable resource book for retreat planners. It is jam-packed with ideas, tools, pitfalls to be avoided, and everything one needs to create Retreats That Work." -Barry Oshry, creator, Power Lab Retreat; author, Seeing Systems and Leading Systems "What a treasure of valuable tools to facilitate the best darn retreat of your life! Whether you're new or a veteran, struggling or successful, you must invest in this gem! The authors of the expanded version of this book share everything-from pre-retreat preparation to follow'up activities to implementation and design to recovery. It's all there! Add to that handouts, client material, and templates on a handy CD-you'll think you struck gold!" -Elaine Biech, author, Training For Dummies, The Business of Consulting, and Creativity and Innovation: The ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook "For companies organizing a retreat, this should be your bible. It delivers exactly what it says it will: practical approaches that assure effective retreats. Would that other business books were so impressive." -Jeffrey LaRiche, chairman and CEO, Castle Worldwide, Inc. "This book is an impressive and much-needed resource for training and development professionals. I only wish it had been around when I was getting my feet wet in retreats. Having read it, I would never again lead an offsite without referring to it, over and over again!" -Fran Rees, author, The Facilitator Excellence Handbook, How to Lead Work Teams: Facilitation Skills, and 25 Activities for Developing Team LeadersCampbell, Sheila is the author of 'Retreats That Work Everything You Need to Know About Planning And Leading Great Offsites', published 2006 under ISBN 9780787982751 and ISBN 078798275X.