THE COLLABORATIVE LEADER

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1 VOLUME 3. ISSUE 2 THE COLLABORATIVE LEADER SECOND QUARTER 2015 The Collaborative Center at Sugar Lake Lodge COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP CENTER AT SUGAR LAKE LODGE IN THIS ISSUE Topics for Leaders: Team Building or Team Bonding? Stories: Training to Retain Employees Center and Team Building Coming Events for Leaders 370 Million Reasons to Invest in Team Building Search team building on Google and you ll find more than 370 million results. That s overwhelming to busy executives who understand the positive effects of team performance on the bottom line, so we ve made it easy with our new team building programs. What makes our team building programs great? We ve partnered with the renowned Prouty Project to offer team building retreats that empower people, develop teams and address critical business issues. Plus, our programs are customized to meet your stated outcomes. Check out our website sugarlakelodge.com/leadership-center to learn about our team building programs. And, turn the page for more about team building from Peter Bailey of the Prouty Project and enjoy reading about SFM, a company we hosted this spring for a team building retreat. We also host retreats for individuals. Check these out and contact us to learn more. LiftingUp September Learn to be intentional in impacting others, create meaningful connections at work and in life and use the Future Mapping tool to envision the future you desire. Personal Brand Camp July or October Develop your personal brand based on what you aspire to be known for in work and life and bring your brand to life online and off using tools like LinkedIn I look forward to seeing you and your team this summer! Sincerely, Fred Bobich Owner, Sugar Lake Lodge fred@sugarlakelodge.com or Fred Bobich Sugar Lake Lodge

2 TOPICS FOR LEADERS Team building can be fun and have a business purpose. What s the Better Retreat: Team Building or Team Bonding? Great news! The retreat has been approved! Those are encouraging words if you want to improve team performance and do it away from office distractions. Begin planning your retreat with developing the agenda and understanding the difference between a Team Bonding and Team Building retreat. Team Bonding: Light-Hearted Fun A team bonding retreat features activities intended to be fun, humorous and require minor skills. Their value is the easy entertainment and the retelling of the stories of what happened at the retreat. The group finds it worthwhile to bond outside of a more business-focused agenda that might occur during most of the retreat or meeting. Team Bonding examples: Fishing, golf game variations, softball, kickball, cooking competition, volleyball, croquet, horseshoes, bocce ball. The focus is on group participation and friendly competition and less on skills, rules or scores. Team Building examples: The Challenge Pyramid, which features challenging initiatives in a sequential series, ropes course challenges, search and rescue simulations, the famous Prouty Project complexity challenge and a bike building service project. What s Right for You? Ask yourself what you want to occur during your retreat and what deliverables should come from your time together. Think about your answers relative to the difference between team bonding and team building and you ll build an agenda that s in sync with your goals. The Prouty Project has been designing and delivering creative team development activities for nearly 30 years and every retreat is a unique combination of the best activity for the team, its situation and the desired outcomes. Peter Bailey Team Building: Purposeful Adventure A team building retreat features activities to help groups become teams. The activities can be fun, but the objective is for the individuals to learn what it takes to become a team. We describe a team building retreat as purposeful adventure. The activities are led by a trained facilitator whose focus is to conduct and debrief activities for the learning inherent in them. We address important themes like communication, building trust, planning and resource allocation. We take team-building fun seriously! Peter Bailey is president of the Prouty Project. He specializes in engaging business leaders and teams in transformational experiences that enhance their skills, systems and processes for working better together. Learn more at proutyproject.com. Reach Peter at peter.bailey@ proutyproject.com

3 LEADERSHIP STORIES LEADERSHIP CENTER Participants in the SFM Program Team Building Develops Leaders Company: SFM - The Work Comp Experts Challenge: Recruiting and talent management in the insurance industry, where more than one-half of professional employees are older than 45 and one-quarter of the industry will retire by Strategy: Develop a leadership development program to cultivate leaders. The Plan: SFM is getting creative about talent management by introducing a leadership development program to train future leaders. The firm worked with the Prouty Project to develop three academies each themed around a specific area of leadership, including leading self, leading others and leading the business. Each academy is a threeand-a-half-day off-site meeting. Recently a group of 18 high-performing employees from various departments gathered at the Collaborative leadership Center for a session with Prouty Project president Peter Bailey. Peter was a key force in developing the SFM program and serves as the chief facilitator. I can t gush enough about our experience with Peter, said Julie Conzemius of SFM. His passion and energy for leading this program is inspiring. His knowledge is vast, he has a great sense of humor and Peter really connects people together. Results: The SFM program is already seeing results by listening to participant feedback. I ve seen participants share incredible stories and really be vulnerable to stretch themselves, Conzemius said. We thought the Leading Self and Leading Others academies have been successful beyond our expectations. We ve had great feedback from participants. Experienced instructors guide participants. Introducing Team Building Retreats Transform your business by planning a team building retreat that improves communication and trust and aligns goals for a shared vision. We re working with the Prouty Project to offer team building programs and retreats. Custom team building retreats from one-half day to multiple days. You ll work with the Prouty Project, the leader in organization development to plan and execute a result-driven retreat. Use the beautiful indoor and outdoor spaces at Sugar Lake Lodge for an unforgettable retreat. Visit Team Building on our website to learn more about team building retreats for your organization sugarlakelodge.com/ leadership-center. Contact us at for more information.

4 COMING EVENTS FOR LEADERS LiftingUp Retreat Left to right, Rise Kasmirski, Anne Pryor and Kathleen Crandall of Meaningful Connections. Personal Brand Camp Retreat September We re hosting LiftingUp, a unique retreat hosted by Kathleen Crandall, Anne Pryor and Rise Kasmirski of Meaningful Connections. Retreat guests will learn the principles of LiftingUp, a new approach to business and personal success. The retreat features: Future Mapping exercise by futurist Masanori Kanda. How to create meaningful connections at work and in life by expanding your beliefs about what people want and need to succeed. How to use authenticity and intention to infuse your organization with a mindset that lifts people up. Space is limited to 20 guests. $1,399 for two-nights lodging in a standard private room, meals and materials. Choose July or October We re proud to partner with Meaningful Connections to offer Personal Brand Camp, a dynamic workshop designed to help leaders develop and leverage their personal brand. The retreat features: Creating a brand statement that answers, Tell me about yourself. Using your personal brand to create a masterpiece on LinkedIn. Using the Future Mapping tool to develop goals. Space is limited. The retreat is $1,399 and tuition includes two-nights in a standard, private room, all meals and materials. Interested in more information or registering for the retreat? Contact Jade at jade@ sugarlakelodge.com For more information or to register, contact Jade at jade@sugarlakelodge.com

5 COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP CENTER AT SUGAR LAKE LODGE Sent with our compliments. Sugar Lake Lodge, Otis Lane, Grand Rapids, MN Enroll now! Brand Camp is July and Oct Collaborate with Us Partners The Collaborative Center at Sugar Lake Lodge is located south of Grand Rapids, MN and is just 2.5 hours from the Twin Cities. Our address is Otis Lane, Grand Rapids, MN Contact us at or sugarlakelodge.com Collaborative Center partners Join the collaborative conversation