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Leadership team facilitation and offsites in Minnesota

The meeting where your team decides what happens next.

Nucleo Coaching designs and runs facilitated sessions for leadership teams, schools and organizations, from 2-hour working sessions to full-day offsites and session series. Offsites, retreats, planning days and team resets. We plan the session with you, run it so the quiet voices and the loud ones both count, and follow up so the plan keeps moving once everyone is back at their desks.

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Every session includes

From first call to follow-up

  • Planning calls with you and a few participants
  • An agenda built around your decisions
  • Hands-on methods that get everyone talking
  • A summary and one-page plan within days
  • A check-in about a month later
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At a glance

What it is
A planned, hands-on session where your team makes decisions together
Formats
2 to 4 hours, full-day offsite, or a 3 to 6 session series
Who it's for
Leadership teams, school staffs, PLCs and cross-team groups
Where
On site across Minnesota, or virtual
You leave with
Decisions with owners and a one-page plan
Price
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When teams bring us in

Some work has to happen with everyone in the room.

A new leader or a new leadership teamGet clear on how you'll work together from the start.
Planning season, and the priorities don't line upSort competing ideas into a plan people back.
A change people are worried aboutGive people room to say what they see and shape what comes next.
The same conversation keeps coming backName what's stuck and decide what happens next time.
A school year kickoff, retreat or PLC resetStart the year with shared goals and team agreements.
Two groups that need to work as oneBuild shared priorities, roles and ways of working.
What it looks like

A sample day, and the sessions we run.

What a day can look like

Sample: leadership team planning day (built new for every group)
8:30Opening: where we are, and what today has to settle
9:15Hands-on build: each leader shows the year ahead with LEGO® bricks
10:30Design thinking: what the people you serve need from this team
12:00Lunch
12:45Choosing the three priorities that matter most
2:15Who owns what, by when
3:30How we'll work together, and how we'll check progress
4:15Close: one commitment from each person

Sessions we run

Leadership team offsiteSet direction and reset how the team works together
1 day
Strategy and priorities sessionSort competing priorities into a plan people back
½ to 1 day
Design thinking sprintSolve a real problem for the people you serve
½ to 2 days
LEGO® building sessionHands-on building that gets every person talking
2 to 4 hours
Visioning and goal settingFor school buildings, districts and teams starting a year
½ to 1 day
Team time that worksPLC and team meeting resets for schools
Series
Executive sessionsStraight Talk for Senior Leaders, Strategic Communication, Business Acumen
½ day

Single session

2 to 4 hours

One important question, worked through with the people who own it.

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Full-day offsite

1 day, on site or away

Set direction, reset how the team works together, or plan the year.

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Session series

3 to 6 sessions

Over a quarter or a school year, with follow-up between sessions so the plan keeps moving.

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1

Listen

We talk with you and a few participants before anything is designed.

2

Design

An agenda built around the decisions you need, with pre-work only if it helps.

3

Run the room

Hands-on methods: design thinking, LEGO® building, structured conversation.

4

Follow through

A summary and action plan within days, and a check-in a month later.

You leave with:Decisions with ownersA one-page planMaterials from the day, cleaned upA 30-day check-in

Ways we get the room working

Design thinking sprintsLEGO building sessionsStrategic planning daysPLC resets

Every method gives each person a way in, so the quiet voices show up and the plan belongs to the whole team.

What leaders said
Leaders said practicing the hard conversation out loud felt easier than they expected, and the real conversation later went better than they thought it would.What we heard from leaders after an August 2026 school leadership day

Facilitation overview (PDF)

One page with the session menu, formats and process. Share it with your team or your board.

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Questions about facilitation

Can you run a session for a group over 50?

Yes. We design larger sessions around table work and bring in people from our team when the room calls for it.

How far ahead should we book?

Most sessions can be planned within a few weeks of the first call.

Do participants need to prepare?

Only if it helps the day. When there is pre-work, it is short and tied to a decision you need to make.

Is LEGO® building a gimmick?

It gives every person a way in. People build an answer before they talk, so the quiet voices show up and the conversation gets specific fast.

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Nucleo Coaching · Lakeville, Minnesota · coachingnucleo@gmail.com