Meetings

Powerful Meetings 


What do people want out of meetings? They want meetings, retreats, and company events that have a purpose and produce positive results. People look forward to attending because their time is well spent, and meetings are memorable events. Participants experience the meetings as useful, educational, and fun!

Meetings are a mini representation of your whole culture. High functioning teams are more likely to create productive meetings. CCI coaches work with your teams and model how to run effective meetings. The three primary skillsets that are required are:


  1. The technical skills of how to run an effective meeting
  2. The interpersonal skills required to lead and participate in results producing meetings.
  3. The internal state essential to transform and create the “high performance zone” or what to do before communicating. 

A positive culture will create heightened engagement in your strategic planning sessions, board retreats, sales meetings and company events. The time spent in these meeting needs to produce increased productivity, commitment and motivation to improve performance. Our clients have reported that they “learned something useful, tangible and inspiring”. This is our commitment to you as well. What differentiates our work is our Ten Indicators of Superior Performance (link), which is our foundation or our “secret sauce”.

Powerful Strategic Planning 


"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.” - Aristotle


“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” - Mike Tyson

Our strategic planning meetings, board retreats and meeting facilitation process utilize a participative approach and we fully engage all attendees. Participants identify how they are currently approaching their work, flag obstacles, come up with solutions, and actually get to implement the solutions that make sense for their business. They are completely involved and see that their efforts are appreciated and acted upon. The end result is a vibrant action plan that is well organized and have an implementation component that positively impacts the bottom-line. The implementation component is what differentiates our strategic planning process along with the Ten Indicators of Superior Performance. Participants say, “Wow, this was a meeting worth our time, all meetings need to be designed this way!” “We focused on a process that will positively impact our business goals”.


Case Studies:

Prudential Allied Real Estate: Raising Value

Improving Manufacturing Results with Strategic Planning & Process Improvement

Enhancing Leadership and Performance at Austin ISD 

Large Energy Co. - Strategic Planning Process on Sustainability



Board Retreats


Our board retreats are well designed, so desired outcomes are achieved. Every minute is packed with useful activities so at the end of the board retreat, people feel that they accomplished what they set out to do. CCI utilizes business models that bring out productive work in all of our meetings and retreats. We include “Participative Design”, “Flow”, and “Healthy Work” that have been field tested by CCI for over 25 years. We tap into the tangible business indicators (financials and productivity) and intangible indicators (commitment, creativity, innovation and trust) so we get at the root of what compels people to excellence.

Media Company Results from Board Retreat (Needs to be linked to the new short description which is up in media section)

Meeting Facilitation


Utilizing a skilled facilitator is key to the success of your meetings. Facilitation is an acquired skill that takes many years to perfect. Seasoned facilitators are worth their weight in gold. If you have limited time and wish to produce results with your meetings, hire a skilled facilitator. CCI creates a productive environment, one that is highly engaging to participants. We emphasize tackling root problems. High performing groups are willing to look at these issues and see them as an opportunity for growth. Designing for a “flow” environment, where people are creative, motivated and engaged produces outstanding results. Our methods create a safe and trusting environment. Participants are motivated to do excellent work. We cultivate the talents, skills and knowledge of your meeting participants, so they give you their best!

How to Be an Expert Flow Facilitator


Effective Team Meetings


Benefits of our Strategic Planning, Board Retreats, and Meeting Facilitation:

      Design strategic plans, board retreats, and meeting facilitation that outperform anything you have ever experienced in the             past

     ✪ Increase market share, durability, profitability and operational efficiency

     ✪ Create informative, powerful and thought provoking strategic plans that people will implement

      Assist in developing the right goals and targets


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