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Happy Chef
10-29-2007, 03:09 PM
For those that have been on one- what exactly is it???
ShanaSmith
10-29-2007, 03:38 PM
Barbara Duke did one almost two years ago. We had a guest speaker. I should know her name, but it is escaping me at the moment. I believe it is Jane D..... something, she is with the DSWA. It was two days and we stayed at the hotel that it was being held in. I learned so much! It was shortly after I had promoted, so it was just awsome to be there.
finley1991
10-29-2007, 04:05 PM
My experience has been the same as Shana's. They have cost me around $175 each time (hotel extra) and the $100 was reimbursed via the Professional Development $$.
Happy Chef
10-30-2007, 08:23 AM
That's cool- I would never have thought they'd be reimbursable by Professional Developement.
finley1991
10-30-2007, 09:14 AM
They are if they pay a speaker to come in and talk. That's the part that's covered.
bethcooks4u
10-31-2007, 07:54 AM
Speaking of the reimbursement... I haven't used mine yet this year. What are you all doing for yours? Suggestions needed.
pchefkristin
12-17-2007, 04:47 PM
We hold a retreat every year for our teams through the Ross Cluster. Marna puts tons of work into it, and instead of paying for someone to come speak, we each teach a workshop on something...
We only pay about $45 each for an overnight stay at a hotel, two days worth of training, mostly for our teams, though I have gotten a lot of info from other Directors as well.

We have ours coming up in February, and again, I am totally excited!!
finley1991
12-17-2007, 04:50 PM
We hold a retreat every year for our teams through the Ross Cluster. Marna puts tons of work into it, and instead of paying for someone to come speak, we each teach a workshop on something...
We only pay about $45 each for an overnight stay at a hotel, two days worth of training, mostly for our teams, though I have gotten a lot of info from other Directors as well.

We have ours coming up in February, and again, I am totally excited!!

I LOVE THE IDEA OF HAVING EVERYONE TEACH SOMETHING!!!!
amy07
07-24-2008, 02:44 PM
I LOVE THE IDEA OF HAVING EVERYONE TEACH SOMETHING!!!!

I think that is awesome too!

For those that have attended one, how many people are there?

And has anyone done a retreat for smaller teams?
chefmeg
07-24-2008, 03:42 PM
Is it usually an upper level director that does this kind of thing? I would love to have something from my ED that were for only Directors (she is in FL, but has 6-7 D's here in VA).