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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 [...]
Throw Back to Move Forward: The Link Between Nostalgia and Creativity in Business In their study The mnemonic muse: Nostalgia fosters creativity through openness to experience published in 2015, Wijand A. P. van Tilburg, Constantine Sedikides, and Tim Wildschut hypothesized that nostalgia fosters creativity. Long story short, they were right! They could have saved [...]
Environment Matters: No More Boring Focus Groups If you’re reading this, then odds are you’ve been on one side of the two-way mirror or both. The focus group is one of the longstanding ways to gather feedback on your products and services. That real life interaction with your buyers helps you determine what’s really important, confusing, [...]
10 Reasons Why Meetings Are More Effective At Catalyst Ranch Time and again, clients tell us that their meeting at Catalyst Ranch was wildly productive and extremely satisfying. (Just look at our Yelp reviews!) But what alchemy is behind these consistent results? What are the ingredients that make the magic? What do we do that makes [...]
The Transformational Leadership Retreat: Adding Purpose to Your Catalyst Ranch Meeting Businesses are emerging from the past year and needing guidance in how to change their work culture for today; that’s where a Transformational Leadership Retreat comes in. In the past we’ve hosted our friend, executive coach Jackie Sloane, for these retreats as a [...]
Time for Team Re-Building: When and where to activate face-to-face team building As the number of vaccinated people continues to increase each day and the pace of re-opening accelerates exponentially, businesses large and small are grappling with many logistical challenges. But one of the most urgent is the need to re-build their teams and strengthen team [...]
In addition to his duties as Catalyst Ranch's Managing Director, Lyndon Stewart also serves as our technology coordinator. He's had his finger on the pulse of meeting technology since his first days at CR, and in the past year, he's learned—along with many of our Meetings Industry peers—the ins and outs of incorporating virtual components to [...]
Warning, this leisure read may have you thinking about play. I hope it makes you want to really take some time to do that. Like they say, there is no time like the present. Whether you’re on your own, live in a nucleus or extended family, the action of play or being playful, have benefits for [...]
Small meetings are getting a lot more attention lately and for good reason. They are the way to meet these days. Currently social distancing guidelines call for gatherings of 10 people or less. Catalyst Ranch has been a venue for such meetings since it opened in 2002. We serve companies large and small in our [...]
With the ongoing coronavirus it’s become apparent that in today’s business world of video meetings and teleconferences, the value of face-to-face encounters can often get overlooked. Collaboration and conferencing tools have made the way we communicate sprightly and convenient and are essential for conducting day-to-day business. But when it’s very important business, nothing is as [...]
