Executive Leadership Retreat Facilitation Services

The vendor is required to provide to hire consultants to provide professional services when the workload exceeds the capacity of city staff or when specialized expertise is required for specific projects.
- Goals and objectives
• Building cohesion: Enhance teamwork, unity, and collaboration among different departments.
• Building trust: Establish and strengthen trust across the leadership team.
• Strategic alignment: Align departmental goals with the city's strategic plan and identify areas of collaboration.
• Operational focus: Establish an ongoing opportunity to focus on achieving the shared vision.
• Support network: Create a supportive environment for leaders to manage strategic and competing goals, build a trusted network of peers to help navigate issues that affect several teams
- Program deliverables
• Host one offsite workshops aimed at establishing year-round norms and expectations.
• Develop strategies and avenues for ongoing peer-to-peer feedback and support.
• Foster a strong and purposeful culture across the organization proactively and strategically.
- Workshop components
• Identifying strengths and areas of opportunity.
• Developing a shared language for creating clearer expectations.
• Improving productivity and collaboration.
• Supporting change management to build trust, purpose, and a growth-minded organization
- Consultant responsibilities
• Conduct preparatory meetings to understand the organization's dynamics and needs.
• Facilitate the one-day offsite leadership workshop.
• Lead debriefs meetings to assess the workshop's impact and plan follow-up actions.
• Provide the city with materials and resources needed for the workshop and any follow up efforts recommended.
- Expected outcomes
• Enhanced cohesion and teamwork among departments.
• Increased trust and collaboration across the leadership team.
• Clear alignment of departmental goals with the strategic plan.
• Effective operationalization of goals with a quarterly focus.
• A supportive network for leaders to achieve strategic goals and tackle leadership challenges together.
- Contract Period/Term: 3 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: March 19, 2025