Creative Ideas andInnovative Solutionsfor Teams

Infuse your conference, meeting, or retreat with energy and variety

Unique interactive team building options and creative experiences

Conference Facilitation Services

Custom Conference Facilitation

Find a unique conference facilitator,or customize a Leadership Development moduleto fit your needs.

Powerful Times & Possible Futures: Future Scenario Planning for Teams

No one can predict the future, but we all aspire to the possible.

Powerful Times & Possible Futures: Future Scenario Planning for Teams

• Examine the major forces that impact your organization

• Explore the implications of possible futures• Assess your employees’ preparedness

and adaptability to possible futures

The Handcrafted Team

Craft your team like a piece of finely made furniture: quality, legacy, and endurance.

The Handcrafted Team

• Examine the difference between groups and teams

• Explore what makes an effective team• Apply this knowledge to create an effective

team• Craft approaches to overcome common

team dysfunctions• Examine the stages of team development

PowerfulPresentations

Passionate and creative

speakers can energize your conference.

Plenary Session Keynote Facilitation

Living, Learning, and Leading like Leonardo: Theatre Performance

The Banff Leadership Arts Ensemble presents theatrical vignettes that explore Leonardo da Vinci’s seven steps to every day genius.

Beyond Golf™

Golf challenges both physically and mentally. Facilitator Richard Monette helps you work through elements of performance, and apply what you learn.

Beyond Golf™

• Engage creative competencies• Manage change• Cultivate deep listening skills• Enhance communication skills through

dialogue

Experiential• Outdoor & Nature-Based• Creative Learning Experiences• Personal or Team Assessment Tools

Outdoor & Nature-Based

High Ropes: Course Challenge

Learn about the powerful relationship between trust, risk, and results.

High Ropes: Course Challenge

• Cultivate team trust, support, and encouragement for each other

• Gain new appreciation for unique contributions and strengths

• Develop confidence and courage• Experience the value of effective

communication• Be amazed and have fun

Orienteering: A Strategic Challenge

Leverage the diverse strengths and resources within your team.

Orienteering: A Strategic Challenge

• Plan and implement strategy• Leverage team strengths• Leverage the power of collaboration and

effective teamwork• Align strategy and vision• Develop effective communication• Learn to challenge assumptions

Outdoor Team Challenge

Creative sequential problem-solving challenges help teams become more effective.

Outdoor Team Challenge

• Orient a team to new challenges• Examine individual team member strengths• Explore your preferred communication style

and be more effective• Solve problems through creative negotiation• Develop personal leadership capacity

Nature of Business

Local guide Keith Webb connects individuals and teams to the outdoors, to better understand sustainability.

Nature of Business

• Explore the creative aspects of business through an ecological lens

• Apply an ecosystem dynamic to the stages of business growth and development

• Examine the concepts of system thinking• Experience a unique group nature walk in

Banff National Park

Interpretive & Meditative Nature Hike

The natural environment of the Canadian Rockies inspires reflection.

Interpretive & Meditative Nature Hike

• Recognize the positive influence of reflective practice

• Settle into the rhythms of nature• Renew the body and mind• Examine profound questions of

connectivity and meaning

Creative Learning Experiences

Drumming Up Passionate Teams

Spark the creative potential and passion of your team using drums and other percussion instruments.

Drumming Up Passionate Teams

• Outline and reinforce community within the workplace

• Communicate through deeper listening• Adapt to change in a team environment

Creative Clay: Sculpting Your Team

The playful medium of clay helps explore ways

to create, and to re-create models for ideal teams.

Creative Clay: Sculpting Your Team

• Explore personal responses to change• Examine new techniques for enhancing

team performance• Increase awareness of how roles,

behaviours, and style influence team effectiveness

• Identify creative solutions to team challenges

Image Explorer: A Tool for Leading with Vision

Hundreds of compelling images enhance team dynamics through meaningful conversation, and explore complex organizational challenges.

Image Explorer: A Tool for Leading with Vision

• Enhance communication skills through dialogue

• Identify, understand, and act upon organizational challenges

• Discover new conversations and perspectives

• Examine complex topics with unique perspectives and curiosity

Leading Teams Creatively: The Improvisational Organization

Using narrative, storytelling, and improvisation, teams increase capacities for trust, risk-taking, and communication.

Leading Teams Creatively: The Improvisational Organization

• Build trust and engage in creative risk-taking• Experience whole-brain thinking and how it

relates to leading teams• Cultivate personal presence – the ability to

be centered and aware in each moment of communication

• Apply practical and complementary lessons from the theatre world when leading an organizational change process

Strategy Through Serious Play

Unlock and maximize human organizational potential by “playing with a purpose.”

Strategy Through Serious Play

• Learn to think using your hands• Convey meaning through metaphor• Experience novel and strategic thinking

by exercising your imagination• Respond creatively to sudden and

unexpected change

Leaderships Lens: Visual and Photographic Arts

Using images instead of words can help break blocks in thinking. Creating unique images can help symbolize the multiple perspectives of high performing teams.

Leaderships Lens: Visual and Photographic Arts

• Explore multiple perspectives on the influence of innovation and creativity on team performance

• Unleash creative leadership and team potential

• Develop aesthetic competencies useful for nurturing high performing teams

• Get out of the box and have fun

Personal or Team Assessment Tools

Developing Personal Strengths: Strength Deployment Inventory

Measure your individual value system both when things are going well, and when they are not.

Developing Personal Strengths: Strength Deployment Inventory

• Explore your own relating style• Learn to handle conflict through

team discussions• Build more effective and valuable

personal relationships

Tools for Thinking Teams: FourSight™ Thinking Profile

Find out how members of your team solve problems and approach challenges. A great springboard for innovation.

Tools for Thinking Teams: FourSight™ Thinking Profile

• Build more creative and innovative teams• Train for high level collaboration• Break barriers to collaboration• Understand team strengths to achieve

better results

Post-Program Team Systems Coaching and Development

Continue your learning and help implementation of new ideas with team coaching at 30-60-90 day intervals.

Post-Program Team Systems Coaching and Development

• Apply learning gained from Banff Centre sessions to after-program action

• Integrate on-site and off-site learning into a learning continuum

• Make practical ongoing use of the learning to shift how you operate as a team

• Gain exposure to guidance and support to apply theoretical models to practical workplace context

Leadership Development

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