{"id":1230,"date":"2015-09-17T03:15:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T07:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joangarry.com\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2022-07-13T14:35:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T18:35:17","slug":"nonprofit-retreats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joangarry.com\/nonprofit-retreats\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit Retreats The Right Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last corporate retreat: 1996<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure we did constructive things \u2013 there must have been goals and objectives and agenda items that helped to propel our work forward.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s only thing I can really remember clearly. Or at least somewhat clearly.<\/p>\n<p>Night golf. Each senior executive wearing a headlamp. Glow in the dark golf balls. A different themed bar just past each green.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty sure this was the team building exercise.<\/p>\n<p>It was also my sole experience with staff retreats before diving into the nonprofit sector.<\/p>\n<p>So, is there any difference between corporate and nonprofit retreats? Can you have an effective nonprofit retreat without the purchase of headlamps? What makes an effective nonprofit retreat anyway? And as a board chair or E.D., what should your role look like to maximize candor and productivity?<\/p>\n<p>Read on my friends. Read on.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>IN \u201cADVANCE\u201d OF NONPROFIT BOARD OR STAFF RETREATS<\/h2>\n<p>Before we go any further, there seems to be a trend to call nonprofit retreats an \u201cadvance.\u201d&nbsp;I guess the idea is that the gathering is in the service of \u201cadvancing\u201d the work.<\/p>\n<p>PUH-lease.<\/p>\n<p>A retreat is a retreat. Check the dictionary. <i>A period of withdrawal for meditation and\/or study.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>So first things first. Recognize it for what it is. An opportunity to step away from the day-to-day, business as usual. A chance to exhale, to consider your work, your goals, your future outside the office with your cell phones off (except for breaks). To make the time you never have to consider the issues that actually deserve the most time of all. The focus on the important rather than the urgent.<\/p>\n<h2>JOAN\u2019S TOP 10 INGREDIENTS FOR A HOME RUN NONPROFIT BOARD OR STAFF&nbsp;RETREAT<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s all in the planning. Here\u2019s what you need:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>The retreat must be owned by its participants.<\/b> A top down approach is a recipe for failure. If YOU want to have a retreat because YOU think that the group should be discussing what YOU want, re-think and re-frame. When a group has a shared investment in the goals and outcomes, you all win.<\/li>\n<li><b>Hire a facilitator who doesn&#8217;t simply direct traffic and keep the \u201cqueue.\u201d <\/b>I always joke with my clients that if I have one weakness as a facilitator, it\u2019s keeping the queue. I\u2019m too busy listening, capturing ideas, synthesizing, and helping to clarify the important points people are trying to make. You are hiring someone who is outside of your process; be sure that this person is smart, strategic and is a first rate listener. That is how you take fullest advantage of the objective point of view. Oh, one more thing. Hire a facilitator who is not afraid of being honest with the head honcho. This will be key in prepping her\/him and in debriefing as well.<\/li>\n<li><b>Reach out to every single retreat participant for input.<\/b> Ask each participant to answer a single question like, \u201cThis retreat will be a success for me if _________________,\u201d and send the responses to your facilitator. This gets you important information and buy-in.<\/li>\n<li><b>Review participant feedback with E.D. or Board Chair.<\/b> What do you all see? What are the trends? It is through the lens of this feedback that retreat goals should be set.<\/li>\n<li><b>A nonprofit retreat agenda is not simply a collection of agenda items.<\/b> It must have an overriding purpose or theme. The best retreats take participants on a journey. Agenda item B builds on item A and so on.<\/li>\n<li><b>Identify a space that comes as close to \u2018pampering\u2019 as possible.<\/b> If \u2018pampering\u2019 is unattainable, shoot for comfortable. A donor\u2019s house maybe?&nbsp; Something other than a conference room and definitely out of the office, if you can swing it.<\/li>\n<li><b>Never ever put the word \u201cicebreaker\u201d on the agenda.<\/b> You\u2019ll regret it. People hate them and cringe when they see the word. Now that doesn\u2019t mean you shouldn\u2019t do them. Of course you should. Just be sneaky about them, build them in organically, or just call them something else. Here&#8217;s my recipe for <a href=\"https:\/\/joangarry.com\/ice-breakers-nonprofit-retreats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the perfect ice breaker<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Shoot for agenda quality over quantity.<\/b> Are you bringing overworked, stressed-out staff members to a retreat with so many agenda items that it makes staff members feel overworked and stressed out? Fail. A breathless pace to a retreat is a waste of time and money. Divide your day into large blocks. Focus on the most important big things.<\/li>\n<li><b>Every retreat agenda should bring the work or the clients into the room. <\/b>At one retreat, I had participants role play a diverse set of clients. I gave each one a client narrative. The staff member shared her\/his story in the first person as that client and the rest of the group asked questions about her experience with the organization. It was very moving. And it helped turn \u201cwork\u201d into \u201cmission.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><b>Debrief ASAP. <\/b>Your facilitator should provide you a summary of evaluations within one business week following the retreat along with flip chart transcriptions and any other analyses the facilitator was charged with. Last, but perhaps most importantly, the agenda for this debrief is not simply a self- congratulatory job well done. It must include a plan for implementation that includes quarterly extended meetings that enable the attendees to review action items and assess results.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>BONUS INGREDIENT: A GOOD CRY<\/h2>\n<p>So back in the corporate days, I felt strong company loyalty. In fact, during my night golf retreat, my loyalty increased with each hole (it helps when you find yourself raising a glass, over and over, to toast the largesse of the senior executives.)<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s something that\u2019s just different about a nonprofit retreat. [<a href=\"http:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/5KAEc\">Click to Tweet<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>An important ingredient that can lead to transformation.<\/p>\n<p>Passion.<\/p>\n<p>The first staff retreat I had as an executive director began with an icebreaker (yeah, I know\u2026.)&nbsp;\u201cShare with one another one thing that no one else knows about you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OK, I got this, I said to myself. I\u2019ll talk about my really cool baseball card collection from the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>I so didn\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n<p>First up. Staff member Kim. She announces that she is about to transition and would like to be known as Nick. Another spoke about some family trauma; another talked about being intersex.<\/p>\n<p>Before I knew it, the 20 people in the room were all crying. I started to tear up. What would I say that could match the passion of my staff? Baseball cards?<\/p>\n<p>But then I really got it. I realized that the execution of a mission demands passion and that this passion manifests itself in strong emotions, sometimes conflict (which is why I am now a certified mediator) and yup, tears.<\/p>\n<p>So pack yourself a good facilitator, a passionate tribe of staff members, a clear set of goals and get out of your office for an effective retreat.<\/p>\n<p>And don\u2019t forget the Kleenex.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>P.S. There&#8217;s a ton more on this website about <a title=\"Becoming A Great Executive Director\" href=\"https:\/\/joangarry.com\/executive-director\/\">becoming a great Executive Director<\/a>. Please explore!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retreat is not simply an obligatory offsite. Planned with care and intention, a retreat can propel your staff and your work forward in a big way.  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