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Retreat Facilitation

Team Development & Engagement
Organizational Health & Strategy

When asked to facilitate a retreat, I consider it first a privilege. You’re inviting me into your team – full of individuals with ambitions and ideas and past experiences – and into your organization – one that I assume is seeking to make the world better in some way. So I start by asking the leader lots of questions – questions about where the team and organization are right now, and where they hope to be in the future. This allows for me to customize each retreat based on the organization’s needs and leadership team’s needs. From there, we can determine together the best approach.

Team Development & Engagement

What we will do:

Develop trust, practice productive and healthy debate, and decide what is most important right now to our team and organization through conversations and activities. Identify areas for improvement as individuals and teams.

Who this is for:

For newly formed teams and teams with recently added members, of 2-8 individuals.

Minimum time requirement:

2 days

Organizational Health & Strategy

What we will do:

We will work together to answer questions like: Who are we, really? What gives life to our organization? What matters to us as we live and work together? What are our most ambitious goals?

Who this is for:

For organizations seeking organizational clarity around their mission, core values, vision, and strategy. 

Minimum time requirement:

1.5 days

Success
Stories

Bailey does this by helping every person, from the team leader to its newest member, understand that what they do best makes the team better.

Bailey led a team retreat for my team of academic advisors in Fall 2022.

Bailey is focused, in real time, on helping the team understand their story and equipping the team with the tools to write a new chapter. Bailey does this by helping every person, from the team leader to its newest member, understand that what they do best makes the team better.

Bailey quickly establishes a rapport by casting the team as the main character of the narrative. Bailey’s professional accomplishments would be impressive if she spent any time on them. Bailey’s academic credentials would not be surprising if she went through the list. And her critical life events, the ones that might have appeared to be standing in the way of a successful career as a coach and facilitator, would be heart-tugging, if she were interested in telling her story.
Bailey is committed to making better teams.

 

Patrick Williams
Director

Texas A&M University

I found her to be an attentive and insightful coach who held me and our broader team accountable to the commitments we made. We are a much stronger organization thanks to Bailey.

Bailey supported our leadership team with intensive professional development around our ongoing systems and processes, conflict resolution, collective commitment to our mission, and more. Her ability to weave together the elements of professionalism and personal background is essential in the modern workplace. She was able to help our team develop new ways of engaging that are more productive, focused, and have led to better outcomes. Bailey supported me with one-on-one executive coaching that coincided with our broader team development. I found her to be an attentive and insightful coach who held me and our broader team accountable to the commitments we made. We are a much stronger organization thanks to Bailey.

 

Daniel Anello

Chief Executive Officer

Kids First Chicago

Bailey helped me take a team with very different personalities who had gotten off to a rough start together find their footing as a unit.

Bailey helped me take a team with very different personalities who had gotten off to a rough start together find their footing as a unit. She showed us how to appreciate our differences, get to know each other better, and engage in more productive meetings and conversations. We have far more trust in each other now, hold each other to a higher standard, and are less afraid of conflict. I hope we can continue to progress in this work on our own and with Bailey as needed.

 

Jessica

Executive Director

Texas A&M University

She facilitates our conversations in a way that demonstrates her deep understanding of people, as well as the practices that enable organizations to excel.

I have invited Bailey in to lead our Senior Leadership Team retreats for the past three years. She facilitates our conversations in a way that demonstrates her deep understanding of people, as well as the practices that enable organizations to excel. Bailey listens to what is and is not being said. This has provided our team with valuable insight on team strengths alongside areas for growth. Specifically, she equipped us to have effective meetings and build enduring trust with one another. Every CEO needs this kind of outsider perspective.

 

Shirley M. Collado, Ph.D.

President + CEO, College Track

President Emerita, Ithaca College

Bailey really challenged us with activities and assignments; the process wasn’t an easy one, but it was completely worth it.

Bailey helped my team and me grow closer to one another throughout our team building process, ultimately, helping us to work better together and increase productivity. Bailey really challenged us with activities and assignments; the process wasn’t an easy one, but it was completely worth it. Bailey also helped me set personal and professional goals. She listened to what I was seeking and helped me better define what I want and create a doable outline/timeline. I am so grateful for Bailey and her outstanding work!

 

Sarah

Program Coordinator

Texas A&M University