"An Investment In Excellence"
Custom Designed Retreats and Workshops
Is there a specific topic you want covered or a message that you want to get across to your staff? VERO Group can design and deliver a retreat, workshop or educational day to meet your requirements. Using a comprehensive discovery process VERO Group staff assess the organizational climate and developmental level of your organization and recommend the best approach and content for getting your message across in the organization. Contact us to find out about the process we use to ensure the success of your retreats and workshops.
Not Just for Executives
Executives are not the only people who can benefit from a new and relaxed atmosphere in which to develop and learn. All the staff in your organization could benefit from the retreat environment. This type of environment is excellent for developing the team atmosphere. It can also improve the morale in an organization considerably. VERO group can make our services available over a range of settings most suited to your needs. All of our training and development programs contain components that can be delivered in a retreat or workshop setting. Let us show you the benefit to you and your organization by taking this approach.
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The Executive Excellence Retreat focuses on the key factors that drive your bottom line profits. It assists managers in taking their leadership skills to a higher level by identifying non-productive behaviour in themselves as well as their leadership team and staff to redirect it and create alignment within the organization.
This program is designed to create and foster a culture of highly accountable people with open communication, teamwork and high levels of job satisfaction. This is accomplished through a unique approach combining lectures, reflective exercises, and interactive sessions into a dynamic format and personal action plans to support long-term sustained results.
Who attends?
Executive Teams, Management, Team Leaders, Supervisors.
When:
- Mergers and Acquisitions have taken place.
- The company has aggressive objectives to be met.
- There has been a change in leadership style.
- It is imperative the strategic plan be implemented.
- The culture of the company needs refreshing or changed.
- Staff are de-motivated or feeling insecure.
- Leadership needs to be developed in the organization.
- There have been and will be more changes in structure, processes, technology.
- Accountability needs to be driven down into the organization.
- The management team is in silos and needs to be aligned with the organization's objectives.
- The management style is outdated, or by crisis on a daily basis.
- The management team needs new ideas and tools to produce results.
How will they benefit?
Participants of Executive Excellence will learn to:
- Take responsibility for providing quality leadership, to stay focused on organizational objectives, and to execute them.
- Delegate effectively for maximum team effort and effectiveness throughout the organization.
- Respond positively to conflict, increased demands, and change in general-perceiving them as challenging growth opportunities.
- Create a work environment that significantly reduces employee turnover, apathy and absenteeism.
- Actively motivate themselves and others and all levels of the organization.
- Communicate more effectively and provide valuable feedback.
- Set realistic agreements with co-workers and then follow through to ensure implementation.
- Empower themselves and others for maximum effectiveness and success.
- Plan ahead and avoid management by crisis and chaos.
How to get the greatest impact in your organization:
- Start at the top with the executive team.
- Have all levels of management , team leaders and supervisors involved.
- Keep the levels of management together.
- Mix the departments and divisions within the groups.
- Maximum 16 at the Executive Level, and maximum 20 at all other levels participate in each retreat.
- Execute the staff version Personal Excellence (click here).
- Have in-house trainers for staff version to continue the process with current and future employees.
Topics and themes will be customized following an initial consultation.
Generally, the topics include:
- The Challenge of a Leader's Changing Role
- Success Cycle
- Identifying and Retaining Top Performers
- The Cost of the Status Quo
- The Management By Responsibility Process:
- Responsibility and Accountability
- Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future
- Identifying Ineffective Rituals/Methods
- Avoiding Crisis Management
- Creating Action Plans for Change and Success
- Coaching for High Sales Performance
- Motivation for Success
- Delegating Effectively for Maximum Team Effort
- Providing Feedback and Recognition to Increase Performance
- Setting Goals for Increased Performance and Personal Satisfaction
Each participant will leave with a strategic plan to implement the concepts.
There will be a conference-call follow up session approximately 30 days following the retreat to ensure implementation of the
concepts and transfer of learning has taken place.
A typical agenda:
- Day One: Evening Dinner and Accommodation
- Day Two: Breakfast, Breaks, Lunch, Dinner, Accommodation, Meetings 9 am - 5 pm
- Day Three: Breakfast, Breaks, Lunch, Dinner, Accommodation, Meetings 9 am - 5 pm
- Day Four: Breakfast, Lunch, Meetings 8:30 am - 12:00 noon
- Optional: Golf Tournament 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm on Day Four.
Quotes from Win the Talent War, Harvard Business School Press
"The war for talent is creating a new business reality."
"Companies that scored in the top quintile of our talent management index earned, on average, twenty two percentage points higher return to shareholders than their industry peers."
"Talent is now a critical driver of corporate performance and that a company's ability to attract, develop, and retain talent will be a major competitive advantage far into the future …the war for talent is far from over. In fact, we assert that it will persist for at least another two decades"
"Leadership is the biggest single constraint to growth, and it is the most critical business issue we face" CEO Ralph Larsen, J&J
"Over the next two decades companies will be competing intensely for the limited supply of very capable managers…talented leaders are needed to make the other performance drivers happen."
"Why have so few companies been successful in raising their talent game? Many have not consciously made the link between better talent management and business performance"
"Managers can maintain direction, but they can't change it. To move people in a new direction, you need to influence them, you need to lead them"
"How you choose to respond to change - as leaders or as followers will determine your effectiveness and your potential impact on your organization. Whatever you will accomplish will be restricted by your ability to lead others"
Excerpts from Leadership Excellence Retreat 2002
Leadership Excellence focuses on the key factors that drive your bottom line results. It assists managers in taking their leadership skills to a higher level by identifying their own responses to change and how they can redirect their staff and create alignment within their team.
An intriguing and interactive discussion on:
- Accountability - where does it begin and end?
- Motivating our people to be more accountable.
- The cost of de-motivated staff on your bottom line.
- Effective delegation for maximum team effort.
- Overcoming resistance, increasing adaptability.
- Preparing your team to accept changes as challenging growth opportunities.
Queen's Landing Inn & Conference Resort is a stately Georgian mansion fashioning venetian windows, heavy pediments with mouldings
and large columns. The interior is adorned with marble flooring, a sweeping spiral staircase and brilliant stained glass ceilings. 144
elegant, individually appointed guest rooms and our premier property Lakeview
Villa, provide exceptional accommodation while the Tiara Restaurant, a dual leveled circular restaurant overlooking the beautiful Niagara River,
offers exquisite four-diamond cuisine prepared by an award winning culinary team.
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The Nottawasaga Inn specializes in convention services offering you exceptional amenities with the right mix of professional business services and the most extensive leisure opportunities available anywhere. We offer many different sizes of conference facilities to handle meetings from 2 to 2000. We also have two 56 seat amphitheatres. The Trade Centre of our Sports and LeisureDome is 21,000 square feet. In total, we offer over 60,000 square feet of meeting space alone—more under one roof than any other resort in Canada!
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Langdon Hall. The grand country residence has evolved from an elegant summer retreat to a state of the art meeting facility, away from the stress and complications of urban life. Langdon Hall offers a combination of 53 elegant guestrooms and suites, along with meeting rooms for groups up to 70. Five breakout rooms compliment the main rooms and provide an exceptional setting for executive board meetings.
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