The Marketplace Situation

Companies increasingly rely on business teams to handle their most important priorities, from strategic planning to product development to managing customers.  These teams must have passionately engaged members who command the leadership and collaboration skills to achieve significant results.  Yet many team leaders and members have never learned the critical team skills necessary to work as a powerful unit.  Even worse, a 2002 Gallup poll found that 75 percent of employees are not fully engaged in their work and the cost of this to U.S. businesses exceeds $250 billion. 

The Compass Solution

Leaders In Service is a unique workshop that combines a community service experience with a business-focused seminar to build employee engagement, leadership and teamwork.  The workshop begins with a community service day in your community, taking your team to a service organization you already support or addressing a new need in the community.  The second day is a tailored curriculum bringing the experiences and learning from the previous day to address the burning issues from the workplace.

This combination has a profound impact on the team that makes a real difference back at work.

• Create an emotional impact from the joy of giving of themselves and giving to others
• Build trust as team members get to know each other as whole people
• Reframe business challenges that can be overcome by working together
• Solidify team and leadership skills

Enables Team Members To:

• Discovering the leadership lessons and power in service to others
• Reframe the obstacles and challenges at work
• Build team learning and collaboration
• Enhance energy and spirit in the workplace as well as in their personal lives
• Take personal responsibility for one’s mindsets, attitude and behaviors
• Create personal plans for life balance that integrate work life and personal life in ways that reduce stress
• Add value back into the local community and use that experience as a way to grow personally and professionally

Program Details

Leaders In Service is a highly customized 2 days designed for work teams of 10 to 25 participants.

Compass Group assists in choosing and planning the service day.  The design uses the service experience as a way to re-discover the principles in effective teamwork and to create a group that can support one another in application back at work.  Consequently one of the criteria for an effective community service project is that it actively engages a group of 10 to 25 participants.  Past projects include a Habitat for Humanity house build, children’s hospital, soup kitchen and youth home.

The second day of the workshop is designed to meet the team and business needs of your group. In addition to linking the lessons from the service day to work challenges, teams may focus on:

• Work on a team strategy or initiative
• Lessons of effective leaders
• Personal responsibility for mindsets and attitudes
• The value of diversity
• A support plan to continue the team learning back on the job

Please call to learn more about a Leaders In Service Workshop tailored to your business needs.