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What should be the focus of a leadership retreat

Inside the mind of a leader: What to expect at your next retreat


Are you excited to dive into some serious leadership development next week at your next team retreat? Sure you are, especially if you’re reading this blog. “I don’t know about you but I am! They fly us up to the woods on a private jet and we play some games and open some presents and we might even go to the spa,” you ponder with a smile. “Wait,” you ask, your smile wavering. “What – am I wearing to this thing? And what can we eat while we chat about team dynamics and providing feedback?” Don’t panic. After reading this, you’ll be left feeling like it’s more of a getaway than an ordeal – and like you’re one smart choice away from getting that big promotion you’re vying for.


Leadership What is out of the mind of a leader?


The Ten Feathering Behaviours that can differentiate a good leader and a bad leaders!


Ten Feathering Behaviours of a Leader:


 – Consistent: Communicate and implement decisions and initiatives in a timely and coherent way


– Honest: Candid, frank and truthful


– Wise: Wise and astute; make decisions and make arguments based on good judgment


 – Present: Always available, attentive and support their team


– Encouraging: Provide outgoing, motivational and uplifting praise


– Kind: Sensitive to others’ needs


– Modest: Deprecating; humbly; unaffected; not boastful


– Goal-oriented: High-velocity; do not react to failures


– Motivational: Inspire; cheer; courage; support; inspire


– Communicative: Have strong verbal and nonverbal skills


– Generous: Give; willingly; open; wanting to share; willingly


Each of these feathering behaviours is an instrumental part which can help to create a successful leader! Attire Casual attire is the order of the day! Bring only enough to wear for the retreat, not much more than that. You can unpack your bag once, don’t bring much more than you’ll wear during the retreat Forms of currency Fresh cookies? Make sure not to eat any of the currency you bring in with you! Make sure you’re in the know when it comes to the form of currency when exchanging gifts or when someone pays for you to eat or when you purchase something


What should be the focus of a leadership retreat.


There are some arguably intelligent qualities of a good leader. One is to have an array of complex leadership qualities. There are qualities that are considered universal to some degree or that all people should hope to obtain or be able to intuit. There are also qualities that depend on the context, for example qualities that are useful in one type of organizational culture would not be useful in another organizational culture. A good leader has qualities about their personality that embody the type of culture that they are in.


Purpose of Leadership Retreat:


A leadership retreat is meant to better equip leaders to be the best they can be. A leader should be able to balance interdependent with autonomy according to the needs of the organization. A leadership retreat is paid long-term investment. The retreat forces the leader to take time off of work and they work on things that may require reflection or focus that is not available in their daily life. This is beneficial because the leader can gain perspective and hope to change habits of a lifetime. Leaders may be resistant to a leadership retreat because there is a degree of feelings of denying a creeping need for a break.


It is generally recognized that a good leader has qualities of being a productive, collaborative, and credible colleague. It would be difficult to have a good team of subordinates without good leaders in charge or to have to not be recognized or trusted by others. Being an authoritative figure in the workplace however is usually difficult. One way to avoid this difficulty would be to trust others to make decisions by giving them more autonomy. As leaders begin to hand off duties it allows other leaders to practice skills related to management. Some people are more conscientious than others, but in competencies exist within the group, foremost being the leader relinquishing power, the group becomes more collaborative.


Leadership retreats are there to give leading competencies to group members that have proven their ability to tolerate the workload. One would have to be able to delegate work to other leaders in order for them to grow into the competent leader. The retreat gives leaders the time to better analyse their personality traits, environment, relationships, or what makes them happy. The leadership retreat is used to tune the balance in work life balance, which are necessary for any life to be stable.


Conclusion: Ultimately the point is to allow team members to work with one another in an effective manner.


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