Catalyst Ranch’s
Creative Juice Blog
Our Meeting rooms have been happily filled with offsite meetings this spring season! While companies continue to seize the opportunity to gather in person, we are revisiting wisdom we've learned from our history of talented colleagues. This guest blog post from former facilitator partner Levi Baer shares his best tips to improve your meetings' [...]
The past two years have been a time of great change, shifting challenges, adjustments, learning, and isolation. The Catalyst Ranch leadership team recently worked with executive coach and facilitator Jackie Sloane to reexamine our roles and how we relate to each other, as we look to the future and prepare to welcome more of you [...]
Clients who come to Catalyst Ranch benefit from access to our vetted list of facilitators. These experts work with you in crafting a meeting to shepherd your team's ideas towards your intended goals. This month, we're happy to add consultant Greg Bliss to our list. We know he'll be an asset to our clients! [...]
As we near the end of what has been a rollercoaster year, Catalyst Ranch is truly thankful for everyone who has supported us as we’ve come back from an especially devastating year in 2020. A year that saw our entire industry come to a screeching halt. Yet, despite that, we as a staff and all of [...]
Our Anniversary Month continues, and this week we're looking back on 19 years' worth of satisfied clients. When Catalyst Ranch hosted its first client in 2002, we were thrilled that their feedback was glowing. Fast forward to today, and we are still welcoming in new clients and new guests, and surprising them all the same [...]
Catalyst Ranch has been the go-to creative meeting and event space for going on 19 years. This hasn’t come without help from amazing partners and vendors who add that extra cherry on top of our delicious innovative sundae. For example, when our clients are looking to create a truly experiential teambuilding experience for their offsite gathering [...]
Top 6 Hybrid Meeting Tips: No more Zoom and Gloom “Hybrid Meetings” are nothing new in the realm of off-site gatherings. A conference call during an in-person meeting technically makes it hybrid. However, we’re now in an era where the frequency, intricacy, and importance of a hybrid setup for a meeting has been elevated. This has [...]
Quality vs. Quantity; a simple premise but with ubiquitous applications. In the realm of meetings, whether in-person or hybrid, it’s important to keep in mind when you begin your planning process how many people need to be included. In her book, The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker emphasized the idea of the “Purpose-driven list”. When deciding [...]
Top 8 Offsite Meetings Hosted at Catalyst Ranch Catalyst Ranch is Chicago’s premier creative meeting space, but that doesn’t limit us to just hosting “creative meetings.” Our space was built to provide a creative environment that’s the polar opposite of your average office space in order to shed conventional paradigms. It was also created [...]
Make More of Your Space: How Creative Meeting Setups Foster Possibilities Necessity is the mother of invention. This has never held truer than in today’s climate. The ever-changing demands for safety and versatility around in-person meetings has been a challenge for meeting planners as we respond daily to new requirements and considerations. At Catalyst Ranch [...]
