Team Effectiveness & Facilitation
High-impact team retreats and facilitation for alignment and conflict resolution.
- Typical clients
- Executive teams, divisions and newly formed or newly merged teams
The challenge
Teams block a day offsite, talk in circles, and leave with a document nobody opens. The real tensions — priorities, roles, trust — never make it onto the table because no one in the room is neutral.
The approach
MTI plans each session with the organizer over several pre-meetings: goals, outcomes, agenda, assessments and logistics. In the room, structure and psychological safety are held at once, so quiet voices count and decisions get made.
What you get
- Updated strategic goals and priorities the team owns
- Working norms documented for leadership and each team
- Honest conversation about the challenges that block the strategy
- Prioritized actions with owners and timelines
- Post-session evaluation data for leadership
How it works
- 1Pre-meetingsTwo to three planning sessions on goals and outcomes.
- 2DesignAgenda, assessment choice, materials and room logistics.
- 3FacilitateOne to two days of structured, neutral facilitation.
- 4CaptureDocumented decisions, norms and prioritized actions.
- 5EvaluateParticipant evaluation summarized for the leadership team.
Case study highlight
Two retreats that realigned the Office of Minority Health
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Two retreats for the Office of Minority Health at CMS — leadership first, then the full team.
- An updated set of strategic goals, objectives and priority areas for the year
- Documented working norms for the leadership team and each sub-team
- Focus-group findings surfaced and addressed with concrete ideas
- Organization-wide buy-in to the priorities set by leadership
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