Strategic retreats
Space to think.
Clarity to move forward.
Katalyst designs and facilitates strategic retreats that help your team explore the choices ahead and agree on a shared direction. We bring careful preparation, engaging facilitation, custom tools and reporting support to help you clarify priorities, make decisions and identify what happens next.
For leadership teams, project teams and whole organizations.
Lao, English and bilingual facilitation.
Start with a purpose
What does your team need to work through?
Every retreat starts with a purpose. Yours might be to develop your strategy, prepare for change, learn from experience or bring your team together around shared priorities.
Chart your direction
Develop or refresh your strategy, explore the choices ahead and agree where to focus.
Review and learn
Reflect on achievements, challenges and lessons that should shape what comes next.
Strengthen alignment
Build a shared understanding of your priorities, values and how to put them into practice.
Move toward action
Turn ideas and decisions into practical next steps, with clear ownership.
From preparation to follow-through
Designed around the
work you need to do.
We work closely with you to shape a retreat around your objectives, your people and the decisions ahead.
Preparation & design
We review relevant background materials and work with your team to clarify the purpose, questions and expected outputs. From there, we develop an agenda that gives each discussion the time and approach it needs.
Facilitation that involves your team
We combine focused discussion, small-group work, reflection and interactive activities to bring different perspectives into the room. Our facilitators help participants explore ideas, work through differences and reach useful conclusions.
Reporting support
We can bring together the key discussions, completed canvases, agreed priorities, decisions and next steps in a clear retreat report. This gives your team a practical record to share, revisit and use as the work continues.
The Katalyst approach
Tools that make
thinking visible.
Our canvases are a distinctive part of the Katalyst approach.
We develop and adapt canvases, discussion prompts and workshop tools around the questions your team needs to answer. They give participants a shared space to explore possibilities, compare perspectives, make connections and capture their thinking.
From imagining a future vision to weighing priorities, each tool helps move the conversation toward a useful output. Completed canvases also provide a foundation for reporting and follow-through.
Retreats in practice
Different questions.
A clear purpose.
CARE LAOS
Shaping the next
five-year strategy.
With a new global strategy in place, CARE Laos was developing its country strategy for the next five years. Katalyst designed and facilitated a two-day workshop to help the team identify the program priorities and strategic approaches that would shape that direction.
The work brought CARE’s global ambitions into conversation with the Lao context, helping the team explore where to focus and how to approach the work ahead. Custom discussion canvases supported that thinking, with reporting support to capture priorities, approaches and next steps for the country strategy.
UNICEF LAOS
Reflecting on 50 years.
Looking ahead to
the next 50.
To mark UNICEF’s first 50 years in Laos, Katalyst facilitated a three-day retreat bringing together 100 colleagues in Luang Prabang to reflect on their achievements and consider the future ahead.
Shared memories, group discussions and custom canvases helped participants explore the changing context for their work, review priorities and agree how they could work better together. The retreat culminated in the Luang Prabang Declaration, capturing shared commitments for the organization’s next chapter.
Across organizations and sectors
Selected retreat experience.
Nam Theun 2
Future direction and change
Exploring the organization’s future, the innovation needed to get there and how its management team could lead change, with initial work toward an action roadmap.
Datacom
Vision, values and growth
Bringing senior and middle managers together around the company’s future direction, shared values and the actions needed for its next stage of growth.
UNFPA
Shared purpose and a team vision
Reflecting on the team’s contribution, developing a shared vision and making commitments to strengthen collaboration across program units.
SNV
Global values in everyday work
Translating SNV’s global cultural values into practical ways of working in Laos, through team agreements and individual commitments.
Plan your retreat
What needs to be clearer
by the end of your retreat?
Tell us about your team, the questions you need to work through and what you want to leave with. We’ll help shape a retreat that makes good use of your time together.