Maybe it’s you.
Before investing in another offsite, changing the structure, hiring new talent or designing another strategy, there is a question few leaders want to ask themselves:
What part of the problem am I creating?
Your organization also responds to the way you lead.
To what you tolerate. To what you avoid. To how you react under pressure. To the conversations you postpone. To your need for control. To how you listen. To how you make people feel when they walk into a room with you.
And that isn’t always discovered sitting in front of a computer between 30-minute meetings.
This is why leaders also need to retreat
Not to escape the business.
To temporarily step out of the system in order to observe it from another perspective.
And, especially, to observe themselves inside it.
A well-designed leadership retreat should not simply be a beautiful hotel, good food and pleasant conversation.
It should make you slightly uncomfortable.
- Make you think differently.
- Move your body.
- Break your routine.
- Confront patterns.
- Create silence.
- Provoke conversations you normally avoid.
- Open space for decisions you have been postponing for months.
And finally ask you:
Who needs to return to lead when this retreat ends?
The order matters
Your company may need a different strategy to develop its leaders, and to transform them into what is required to elevate the internal experience, the external one, and the results.
Before transforming your team, dare to retreat, look at yourself and transform yourself.
The Healing House workshops and retreats are designed with exactly that intention: to take the leader out of the system so they can see themselves inside it. Explore the workshops and retreats or the mentoring for companies and teams.