Private Retreat
Two days to build a team no one wants to leave.
The Engaged Workplace, run as a private retreat for your leadership team or your whole staff. You handle the logistics. Amy brings the content and runs the room.
45% → 0%employee turnover in six months, held at 0% for 18+ months
30–60%increases in engagement scores
67.8%improvement in time to hire
100+organizations served over 25 years
How it works
You bring the team. Amy brings the work.
Hold it off-site, away from the daily work: a resort, a conference center, a retreat venue. Amy builds the two days around your organization’s own numbers, not a generic program.
You Handle
- Venue, meeting room and audio-visual
- Travel and lodging for your team
- Meals, receptions and dinners
- Dates and who attends
Amy Handles
- Administration of the Kolbe™ Indexes and CliftonStrengths® assessments for every participant
- The Sticky Check of your organization before the retreat
- The design of both days around your results
- Every session, start to finish
- Your team’s 90-day plan
The two days
From your data to your plan in two days.
Before the retreat
Pre-Work
- Kolbe A and Kolbe B Indexes and CliftonStrengths®Every participant takes all three ahead of time. The Kolbe B shows how each person sees what their role demands. Amy sends them, tracks completion and prepares every result. Any Kolbe B not finished before the retreat is completed afterward as follow-on work. The Kolbe C, the manager’s view of each role, can be added.
Evening before
Opening Dinner
- The Team, Together, Before the Work StartsRelaxed, no agenda. Amy joins and sets the tone for the next two days.
Day one
Where You Stand and Who You Are
- Opening: The Engaged WorkplaceWhat a workplace no one wants to leave looks like, and how one organization took turnover from 45% to 0%.
- Values People Can NameWhy values come first, how to create or sharpen your core values, and how to know whether your people can name them and see leaders live them.
- Your Sticky Check ResultsAll seven Sticky Factors, scored for your organization: where you are strong and where people are leaving.
- Working LunchSmall groups take on the factor that matters most.
- Strengths-Based Design, Session 1: The IndividualEvery person’s Kolbe A and CliftonStrengths results, built into a personal Strengths Stack™: how each of you takes action and where you do your best work.
- Executive Dinner and Working SessionThe CEO and the leadership team. The conversations that do not happen in the office.
Day two · done by 4:00
Your Teams, Your Trust, Your Plan
- Strengths-Based Design, Session 2: Teams and the OrganizationHow your strengths fit together across teams and the organization, and how to use Kolbe to hire the right person for every role.
- LunchTime to step away before the afternoon sessions.
- Trust Is the X FactorDo your people trust their managers? What trust multiplies, and how leaders earn it.
- The One You Won’t FireThe person no one will hold accountable, what it costs your best people, and how to act.
- Your 90-Day PlanThree moves, with owners and dates. Everyone leaves knowing what happens Monday.
After the retreat
Keep it from fading by Friday.
Most retreats end with good intentions. This one ends with a plan, and Amy can stay with your team while you carry it out.
- Check-ins on the 90-day plan with your leadership team
- Any remaining Kolbe B results, reviewed with each person
- A second Sticky Check to measure what moved
- Hiring and role design support where the gaps show
Who it is for
Leaders whose team has to pull in one direction.
Plan your retreat with Amy.
Tell me about your team and your timing. I will get back to you personally.
Let’s Talk