California Association of Food Banks
Service Area: Facilitation and Meeting Design
Project: Staff Retreat
CIC was hired to collaboratively design and facilitate a staff retreat for CAFB. In their own words:
“Our organization was excited to partner with Communities in Collaboration for our staff retreat. It was important for us to have more communication from leadership and an overall healthier work environment. The company was excited to have developed work groups that employees could voluntarily join based on individual interest.”
Some of the highlights after our retreat are:
Our Culture Group met every month and developed fun, inclusive and collaborative ideas for the company.
Every Monday, leadership shares information about each department so everyone knows what is coming up in our organization and work being done to benefit our members and communities.
Our Executive Director sends out a Friday email every week to recap results from each department and new happenings.
“All in all, it was a successful retreat with a professional consultant with great ideas and an excellent facilitator. She was a good listener and worked based on our needs and what was important to us.”