Meredith Baker
Planning guides for retreats and team days
Meredith Baker, leadership coach and speaker. Not to be confused with Meredith Attwell Baker of CTIA.
These guides are for planning a team day, opening a meeting, or trying a short practice on your own. I’m Meredith Baker, a Los Angeles facilitator and ICF certified coach. If you want me in the room, start on the facilitation page. If you are still shaping the day, start with one of these.
Which guide should you use?
- Leadership retreat ideas. Themes, activities and formats, and how to pick one outcome before you draft an agenda.
- Team connection questions. Forty questions for meetings, one-on-ones, dinners and offsites, and how to ask them.
- Trust exercises for teams. Nine structured conversations, from low risk to high, and when to bring in a facilitator.
- Icebreaker questions for work. Quick openers for meetings, virtual calls, a new team, and a leadership offsite. Not the deeper connection list.
- Burnout self-assessment. A yes or no check-in for “am I burned out.” Not a medical screen. Sorting a hard season from burnout is burned out or just busy.
- Box breathing. A counted breath of about three minutes, seated and optional, plus a cautious note on 4-7-8.
How do these fit with a facilitated day?
A timed one-day or two-day plan is the leadership offsite agenda. Hiring a facilitator for the retreat itself is leadership retreat facilitation. A focused trust session is the team trust workshop. The guides are for planning, or for a practice you can try alone. Those three pages are for booking me to lead the day.
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Who is Meredith Baker?
Meredith Baker is a facilitator, leadership coach and speaker in Los Angeles, and an ICF certified coach. She has 10,000+ coaching hours and has hosted 200+ sold-out events in Los Angeles through Powerful Stuff (formerly More of That). She is not Meredith Attwell Baker, the former FCC commissioner and CTIA president.
What are these guides for?
They help someone plan a team day, open a meeting, or try a short practice. The set includes retreat ideas, team connection questions, trust exercises, icebreaker questions for work, a burnout self-assessment, and a box breathing guide. The self-assessment is not medical. Booking Meredith Baker to lead a day is on the facilitation page.