THE VORNICA® SIGNATURE TEAM PERFORMANCE ACCELERATION PROGRAM:

PACT
PRODUCTIVE, ALIGNED, CO-CREATIVE TEAMS

Professional team coaching, mentoring, skill training, facilitation, and strategic thought partnerships for distributed remote-first and hybrid teams.

WITH CRISTINA MUNTEAN

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WHY DO YOU NEED PACT FOR YOUR TEAM RIGHT NOW?

The pandemic and its aftermath decimated our teams and organizations, and it transformed our ways of working forever. Not every leader and every team was ready for the systemic earthquake that rolled upon us in early 2020.

When the pandemic started, many organizations were fast at sending their people to work from home. 

Yet not all organizations were equally fast at investing into people’s distributed remote and hybrid leadership skills that are so necessary in order for us to perform and thrive in a flexible primarily online environment.   

This is why so many employees, managers, and their teams are still suffering today. 

In order for a team to stick together and to perform under any circumstances it needs three things: 

  1. People ATTUNEMENT, 
  2. Vision and process ALLIGNMENT, 
  3. And coordinated ACTION. 

This counter-intuitive approach supports teams to build solid foundations for their long-term sustainable accelerated performance. 

This is why we are here. 

Would you like to stop wasting time, energy, and resources in your team? Would you like to give them more clarity with better work processes? Would you like to avoid unnecessary drama and toxic conflict, and get your fluctuation under control without burning your people out? Would you like to be the driver of such a remarkable team performance that your TEAM RESULTS would catapult YOU PERSONALLY into the C-Suite? 

If your answer is yes, we need to talk.

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WHAT TYPE OF TEAMS CAN ENJOY PACT, OUR SIGNATURE TEAM DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM?

Our signature program PACT – PRODUCTIVE, ALIGNED, CO-CREATIVE TEAMS is ideal for the following type of teams:  

  • FULLY DISTRIBUTED remote and hybrid teams. 
  • EXECUTIVE TEAMS that include the company founder / CEO in the team development program. 
  • STRATEGIC TEAMS: sales, marketing, finance & accounting, IT and digital transformation, HR and DEI, sustainability, operations & logistics, legal & compliance, research & development, product management, internal and external customer experience, PR & public affairs etc.
  • PROJECT TEAMS: strategic initiative and change management teams, digital transformation team, crisis management and company restructuring teams, M&A and company integration teams etc.  
  • PARTNERSHIP TEAMS: mixed teams of internal and external collaborators, teams that include external organization stakeholders etc. 

Because of our mission to triple the number of women CEOs in Europe by 2030 we prioritize work with female-led teams, and work with C-Suite executive teams led by women CEOs.

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WHEN SHOULD YOU CONSIDER GOING FOR OUR TEAM DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR YOUR TEAM?

IS YOUR TEAM CURRENTLY:

  • Exhausted and overwhelmed because of the volume of work and conflicting priorities? 
  • Experiencing high levels of irritation, criticism, drama, conflict, and overall disengagement? 
  • Facing high fluctuation because people are quitting? 
  • Not capable of hiring new people because of poor processes or because people simply don’t want to work for you?
  • Fragmented and without a clear sense of purpose, vision, and team identity? 
  • All over the place, communicating on multiple channels at the same time with little guidance, thus creating more chaos than clarity?  
  • Torn apart among multiple conflicting stakeholders? 
  • Operating without a clear team agreement? 
  • In dire need of clear processes for communicating and working together? 
  • Threatened to be dismantled during your next company restructuring? 
  • Full of exceptional people who yet, somehow, can’t seem to be able to come together and work as a team? 
  • Under pressure to deliver transformative, creative, and innovative outcomes, yet not sure if they can deliver under the current circumstances?
  • Putting your own career at risk because of terrible team dynamics and poor performance? 

WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR TEAM TO:

  • Become a magnet for the best people in your organization and have people stand in line to work for you?  
  • Be able to do your best work and perform as a team with more ease? 
  • Avoid time wasted on misunderstandings, conflict, and drama? 
  • Be made of positive people who understand the purpose of your work together? 
  • Have fun and really look forward to being and working with each other?  
  • Experience more inclusion, belonging, learning, and thriving?  
  • Understand the value of constructive conflict and solve it among themselves with goodwill and grace?  
  • Retain your best talents and turn them into mentors for your new hires? 
  • Have an Avengers-like team brand that everyone knows, understands, and looks up to? 
  • Have no issues negotiating more resources, time, and guidance for your team with any stakeholder? 
  • Become irreplaceable for your organization and be so good that nobody can touch them even during crisis?  
  • Hit targets and receive juicy team-based bonuses regularly? 
  • Be your own great source of pride and joy?
  • Be your massive catapult towards the C-Suite?

HOW ABOUT YOU, THE TEAM LEADER?

ARE YOU CURRENTLY:

  • Exhausted with the constant bickering, conflict, and drama in your team? 
  • In over your head?
  • Feeling disrespected and not taken seriously? 
  • Feeling torn apart between the needs of your people in the team and the needs of your stakeholders / company? 
  • Spending most of your time on operations even though you want to spend more time supervising and coaching your people? 
  • Dreading the next team meeting? 
  • Sick and tired, looking for a career escape?

WOULD YOU LIKE TO:

  • Bring your people together so you get to know and understand each other? 
  • Make sure all your people contribute to designing your team vision, then embrace it with all their hearts? 
  • Have a strategy, systems, and tools in place that will help you support and lead your team under any circumstances?
  • Stop wasting time in the evening on team communications and late-night last-minute issues?   
  • Trust and rely on your people? 
  • Feel really proud of your team? 
  • Know that you are building a legacy team of next leaders?

If you answered YES to any of the questions above, we need to talk.

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WHAT FORMATS DO WE PROVIDE AS PART OF OUR PROFESSIONAL TEAM DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM PACT?

To our distinguished team leaders and their teams we offer two formats aimed at helping them find the right solution for whatever issues are ailing their teams effectively and fast. 

These two formats are: 

  1. online team development and 
  2. in-person team offsites and retreats. 

Check our specific formats below and choose the best option for your team development program.

PACT ONLINE

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PACT IN-PERSON

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IS YOUR TEAM READY FOR PACT?

PACT IS FOR YOU WHEN:

  • You know that your team could function, communicate, and perform so much better. 
  • You are committed to your people’s long-term development, growth and success.
  • You have the big picture in mind for your people, team, company, and your life. 
  • You really want to drive results AND have fun working together as a team. 
  • You are willing to invest in your team development, even when this means some tough negotiations with your owners and / or stakeholders. 

PACT IS NOT FOR YOU WHEN:

  • You are not really committed to building a high performing team.  
  • You and your people don’t feel the need to learn and grow, individually or as a team.  
  • You are not ambitious; you are happy with how things are right now.  
  • Your people cannot or are not willing to take the time to come together as a team to co-create your future.   
  • You are not willing or able to finance your team development program.   

ARE YOU A SMART, TALENTED, AND AMBITIOUS WOMAN LEADER WHO WANTS TO TAKE YOUR TEAM PERFORMANCE TO THE NEXT LEVEL?

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WHAT KIND OF TEAM CHALLENGES CAN WE ADDRESS TOGETHER DURING OUR RETREAT?

During our five-day tailor made performance acceleration retreat PACT we can address any of the challenges that can emerge during a team’s existence.

FORMING:

  • Coming together as a new team; getting to know each other as individuals and professionals and attuning to each other.
  • Co-creating a team purpose and vision for teamwork.
  • Designing the team values, goals, and future destination together.
  • Mapping the team’s strategic stakeholders and engaging them in the team performance early on.
  • Accepting a new leader into an established team – alignment and change integration.
  • Creating more inclusion and belonging in your team.

STORMING:

  • How to manage differences and leverage creative conflict in your team.
  • Unconscious biases in distributed teams.
  • Personality and working styles; how to work together productively even when we are so different from each other.
  • How to re-align a team and her leader when the team is pushing back through passive aggressiveness and negative, toxic behaviour.

NORMING:

  • How to create a team agreement that will bring you clarity and save you time, nerves, and unnecessary conflict.
  • Ways of working and ways of communicating for high performance in a distributed team. Synchronous and asynchronous communication for success in the new work environment.
  • Team branding – how to create a team brand and identity that stakeholders look up to.

PERFORMING:

  • How to avoid burnout by making sure that work is evenly distributed in the team.
  • How to master boundaries internally in the team and in relation to your external stakeholders.

ADJOURNING:

  • How to celebrate a project well led and integrate lessons for future growth.
  • How to dismantle a team after a project / organization is over.

PACT is an incredibly flexible format aimed to address precisely the challenges that you and your team are facing, to bring you and your people on the same page, and to leave you with a clear action plan that will skyrocket your team’s performance and wellbeing.

PACT DRAFT SCHEDULE

1
MONDAY:
  • Arrival and check-in.
  • 17.00 – 20.00: Module 1.
  • Team dinner.
2
TUESDAY:
  • 10.00 – 13.30: Module 2.
  • 13.30 – 16.00: Lunch, Relax & Reconnection.
  • 16.00 – 19.30: Module 3.
  • Team dinner.
3
WEDNESDAY:
  • Whole-day team building activity.
  • 17.00 – 20.00: team building activity debrief and lessons learnt.
  • Team dinner.
4
THURSDAY:
  • 10.00 – 13.30: Module 4.
  • 13.30 – 16.00: Lunch, Relax & Reconnection.
  • 16.00 – 19.30: Module 5.
  • Team dinner.
5
FRIDAY:
  • 10.00 – 13.00: Module 5. Action Plan and Next Steps.

The program includes:

  1. 20 hours of direct, in-person team coaching, mentoring, and facilitation.
  2. 20 hours of team building activities, relaxation, and togetherness.
  3. 3 individual 60-minute sessions of individual executive mentoring / coaching for the team leader.
  4. 4 hours of program preparation with the team retreat leader / sponsor.
  5. 3 hours of virtual follow-up with the whole team 30 and 90 days after the retreat.

PROGRAM LOGISTICS AND THE VENUE

The VORNICA® signature outstanding team performance acceleration retreats PACT - PRODUCTIVE, ALIGNED, CO-CREATIVE TEAMS take place on the beautiful island of Madeira, in Portugal.

Your team will be accommodated in the magnificent resort Quinta Splendida in Caniço, 15 minutes by car from the Madeira airport. Function of your team members’ preferences, they can be accommodated in single or in double rooms.

TAKE A LOOK AT THE OUTSTANDING LOCATION OF YOUR INCOMING RETREAT:

A GENUINE EYE AND SOUL-OPENING EXPERIENCE

In order to nurture your authentic experience on the magic island of Madeira we partnered with Tiago Olim, our local concierge and experience designer.

Born and raised in Madeira, Tiago is passionate about designing curated in-person experiences for an authentic local immersion.

He helps retreat leaders, entrepreneurs and brands to achieve their vision by building up tailored-made remarkable experiences surrounded by the natural landscapes of Portugal.

YOUR INVESTMENT:

The VORNICA® signature outstanding team performance acceleration retreats PACT - PRODUCTIVE, ALIGNED, CO-CREATIVE TEAMS is priced to honor the value of the services provided to you by our team and your team and company’s current economic realities.

The final price of your team retreat will depend on:

  • The number of people in your team joining the retreat.
  • The final cost of the flight from your location to Madeira.
  • People’s preference for single or double accommodation.
  • Some other special requirements coming from your team and its leadership.

WHAT WE INCLUDE IN THE PRICE:

  • Your flight to and from Madeira.
  • Airport shuttle to and from the hotel to the Madeira airport.
  • Welcome drink.
  • 5-day, 4-night accommodation in a 4-start hotel for the entire team, including 4 breakfasts / person. Accommodation is possible in double rooms or in single rooms for a small additional cost.
  • 6 coffee breaks.
  • Access to the hotel gym, outdoor and indoor swimming facilities.
  • 4 dinners – two at the hotel, two downtown in specially chosen locations. Each dinner includes a choice of one alcoholic drink.
  • 2 shuttles to dinner downtown and back to the hotel for the entire team.
  • 4 lunches – three at the hotel, one as part of the team building activity.
  • All team program preparation, coaching / mentoring / facilitation, and follow-up.
  • Two tailor-made experiences: one whole-day team building experience, one evening sharing.

WHAT THE PRICE DOES NOT INCLUDE:

  • Extra charge for single rooms.
  • Upgrade for the team leader room to Spa Seaside Premium Room.
  • Individual preferences for shuttles, taxi fares etc.
  • Spa treatments.
  • Individual shopping, gifts etc.
  • Extra alcohol for dinner.
  • Extra-tours downtown etc.  

HOW CAN YOU CALCULATE YOUR RETURN ON INVESTMENT INTO YOUR TEAM RETREAT?

  • Take a look at the cost of fluctuation. How much would it cost you to replace three-four members of your team that might leave unless you start operating and performing better as a team?
  • Consider the cost of absenteeism, low engagement, and low performance. Even if your people stay, but they don’t perform at their best, this will cost you and your organization way beyond your expectations.
  • Add the cost of burnout and medical care for exhausted people.
  • Include the cost of managing drama. Calculate the volume of time spent by the team leader on managing unnecessary conflict, drama, and negativity in the team. Research says that it usually stands between 40% and 80% in highly dysfunctional teams.
  • Take into account missed opportunities. While your team is struggling to perform, the world is moving ahead, and you will have lost numerous opportunities on the way.

MORE GOOD NEWS: BONUSES FOR YOU AND YOUR TEAM

When you join our signature outstanding team performance acceleration retreat PACT - PRODUCTIVE, ALIGNED, CO-CREATIVE TEAMS you also receive two extra gifts:

  1. 24 MONTHS OF FREE ACCESS TO THE VORNICA ACADEMY, a self-paced online learning platform where you can find spot-on video courses, webinar recordings, panel discussions and more career and leadership development materials aimed to support you at your every step on your journey of growth. This access alone is worth 1 500 EUR / person – up to 15 000 EUR / team of 10 people.
  2. FREE MEMBERSHIP FOR YOUR TEAM LEADER IN THE VORNICA COMMUNITY, an invitation-only virtual group for women in leadership where we gather every month to exchange wisdom, professional advice and experience aimed to accelerate your remote and hybrid career and leadership growth. Access to this community of peers is usually evaluated as PRICELESS.

WHO WILL GUIDE YOU THROUGH OUR SIGNATURE TEAM DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM PACT?

Throughout the PACT: PRODUCTIVE, ALIGNED, CO-CREATIVE TEAMS development program your executive team coach, mentor, facilitator, and strategic thinking partner is Cristina Muntean, our founder & CEO.

Cristina is a certified and multiply accredited professional team coach. She studied general team coaching with David Clutterbuck and Peter Hawkins, and she graduated in systemic team coaching with Peter Hawkins from the Global Team Coaching Institute (GTCI) in December 2022.

Cristina is also a complex people developer with more than 13 years of experience training, mentoring, and coaching some of the most visible leaders and their teams in TOP 100 companies in Europe. She is also the founder of our company, VORNICA®, a fully remote organization, and the founder of THE CEO ELEVATION CIRCLE, a community of women leaders working in corporate organizations in Europe who aim to grow in their careers. 

Cristina started developing the VORNICA® body of knowledge in distributed remote and hybrid leadership for teams in 2016, when she was consulting for Foxconn Global Services Division (FGSD), a branch of Foxconn, the largest technology manufacturer in the world. 

Later she trained remote and hybrid leadership for teams belonging to large global organizations such as Unilever, IKEA, Asahi Breweries, or the Erste Group. 

Cristina works regularly on an individual, team, or cross-organizational basis with leaders from companies such as Alior Bank Poland, Asahi Breweries, Avon Cosmetics, Banca Comercială Română, B. Braun, Česká spořitelna, Československá obchodní banka, Coca Cola, DM Group, Erste Group, Foxconn, HomeCredit International, HP Enterprise, HSBC, IBM, IKEA Retail, IKEA of Sweden, Komerční banka, Microsoft, Moneta Money Bank, Naspers, Nespresso, Novartis, O2, PPF Group, Raiffeisenbank Czech Republic, RWE/Innogy, Salesforce, UniCredit Bank, Unilever, Ursus Romania, Wrigley/Mars and many others. 

Since 2010 Cristina conducted more than 3 000 training and facilitation sessions for over 50 000 people.

Cristina is a certified Senior Practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching Center (EMCC), an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF), a multiply certified trainer of the Enneagram, a complex and dynamic system of personal development, and a trainer of systemic intelligence in organizations.

In 2018 Cristina published You, the Brand – Personal Branding for Career Growth, a book that she wrote in Czech, her fourth language. A relentless innovator, Cristina and her team organized the Personal Branding Summit 2019, the first ever fully digital conference in the Czech Republic.

Since 2020 you can find most of Cristina’s work in video and audio format in the video academy CRISTINAMUNTEAN.TV.

QUESTIONS ABOUT PACT – PRODUCTIVE, ALIGNED, CO-CREATIVE TEAMS, OUR SIGNATURE TEAM COACHING, MENTORING, AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM?

YOUR TEAM DEVELOPMENT CANNOT WAIT UNTIL OUR RETREAT?

No worries. We’ve got you covered.

Now you can also book team training, coaching, mentoring, and facilitation virtually. We also offer individual team leader development as part of our leading executive mentoring program NEVER WALK ALONE. Just book a call below so we can figure out together what’s the best next step for you and your team’s growth.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

WHAT IS THE AVERAGE COST OF A RETREAT PER PERSON OR IN TOTAL?

In general the cost of a PACT retreat per person may vary between 3 000 and 5 000 EUR / person, function of the team specific requirements. For a team of 10 people this takes the budget to 30 000 EUR to 50 000 EUR and beyond.  

HOW DOES THE PAYMENT TAKE PLACE?

The PACT team retreat payment is taking place in two phases: a 80% full cost advance payment upon agreement and prior to the team retreat, and 20% remaining cost within 15 days after the retreat execution.

WHAT HAPPENS IF WE NEED TO CANCEL / RESCHEDULE OUR RETREAT?

Because of the major logistical effort involved at creating the retreat for you, you can reschedule the retreat only once, with a minimum of 30 days prior to the retreat. If the retreat is cancelled less than 30 days before its execution, the retreat is considered executed and the advance payment cannot be refunded.

IS PACT SUITABLE FOR EXECUTIVE TEAMS AS WELL?

Yes, absolutely. However, given the fact that executive teams are very specific, we recommend you to book a minimum 60-minute call so we can discuss your needs at length. In some cases it may be necessary to upgrade the location of our retreat to accommodate your specific desires.  

 

HOW CAN WE GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS RETREAT?

To get the most from this retreat we recommend the team to engage in the pre-retreat reflective activities, to go through all materials we will put at their disposal, and to come ready for full engagement. Your team’s proactivity will determine your success – and, ultimately, your destiny. 

 

WHEN AND HOW CAN THE TEAM LEADER ARRANGE THE 1-1 EXECUTIVE MENTORING / COACHING SESSIONS WITH CRISTINA?

Finding a good time for the three 60-minute individual executive mentoring sessions with Cristina is a top priority during your retreat onboarding process. By the end of the onboarding, you should know exactly when your 1-1 executive mentoring / coaching sessions will take place.

LET’S TAKE YOUR TEAM PERFORMANCE TO THE NEXT LEVEL RIGHT NOW.

TAKE ONE WEEK TO REINVENT YOUR TEAM, SO YOU CAN WORK TOGETHER BETTER, LEARN FROM EACH OTHER, CO-CREATE AMAZING RESULTS, AND ALSO ENJOY YOUR TIME TOGETHER FOR AS LONG AS YOU EXIST AS A TEAM.

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