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K-01 Facilitated team building Year-round

The Alignment Day

A facilitated full day for a leadership team that has stopped agreeing with itself. Named practitioner, structured pre-work, and a written outputs pack in the client's hands within five working days.

A team mid-programme on The Alignment Day — Dubai or Abu Dhabi, 4★ hotel meeting suite, off the client's own premises by design.
Illustrative
Duration
9 hrs
Ideal start time
08:30 — the hard thinking happens before lunch, and this day is built around that
Departure window
08:00–09:00
Group size
12 min — 40 max
Emirate / venue
Dubai or Abu Dhabi — 4★ hotel meeting suite, off the client's own premises by design
Season
Year-round
Booking lead time
21 days — the pre-work interviews need three of them

Why this is not the retail version

There is no retail version of this, and that is exactly the problem the market has. The alternatives are a training firm at AED 25,000–40,000 for a day, which arrives with a fixed curriculum and leaves with a feedback form, or the client's own HR lead facilitating a room they are a political participant in — which is not facilitation, it is chairing.

The three things being bought here are independence, pre-work and a written output. The facilitator has spoken to six people confidentially before the day starts, so session one opens with what the room already knows and will not say. And the pack that lands five days later has named owners and named dates on it, which is the only artefact that survives contact with the following Monday.

We do not sell a training curriculum and we should never be compared to one. This is a decision day for a team that already knows its problem.

The day, minute by minute

Timeline

  1. −14 days Pre-work begins. Facilitator interviews the sponsor and 4–6 participants, one to one, confidential
  2. −3 days Design locked. Sponsor sees the agenda and the framing, not the interview content
  3. 08:30 Transfer from client office. Arrival, coffee
  4. 09:00 Opening — the sponsor frames why the day exists. Ten minutes, and it is not delegated
  5. 09:20 Session one: what we actually disagree about. Themes from the interviews, anonymised, put on the wall
  6. 10:45 Break
  7. 11:00 Session two: the trade-offs. Structured decision work on the two or three real forks
  8. 13:00 Lunch
  9. 14:00 Session three: commitments. Named owner, named date, named first step for each
  10. 15:45 Break
  11. 16:00 Session four: how we work. Operating agreements — meeting cadence, escalation, decision rights
  12. 17:00 Close. Photograph of the commitment wall before anything is taken down
  13. 17:30 Transfer back
  14. +5 days Outputs pack delivered — commitments, owners, dates, operating agreements, wall photography

Included

  • Return transfer from client office
  • Confidential pre-work — sponsor briefing plus 4–6 one-to-one participant interviews
  • Bespoke programme design against what the interviews surface
  • Senior facilitator for the full day — a named independent practitioner, introduced to the sponsor before contracting
  • Hotel day delegate package — meeting suite, AV, two breaks, lunch
  • Full materials, wall stock and capture
  • Branded welcome setup
  • Photographer, half day
  • Written outputs pack within 5 working days — commitments with owners and dates, operating agreements, wall photography
  • Event coordinator on site

Not included

Stated up front so there is nothing to argue about at invoice time.

  • Psychometric or profiling instruments (see add-ons)
  • Follow-up sessions or coaching (see add-ons)
  • Overnight accommodation
  • 5% VAT

Weather & backup plan

Trigger
None — fully indoor, no outdoor content.
Fallback
Facilitator illness is the real risk, and it is covered by a contracted named backup who is briefed on the pre-work from day one, not called on the morning. Venue failure moves to a contracted alternate hotel inside the same district.
You are told by
Immediate, by phone to the sponsor, with the backup facilitator introduced before the day proceeds. The sponsor decides whether to run or reschedule — we do not.

Customisation options

Psychometric or profiling instrument with group debrief AED 180/person
90-day follow-up session, half day AED 6,500/event
Individual coaching, per participant, 3 sessions AED 4,200
Second facilitator for groups above 24 AED 3,800
Extend to an overnight at C-01 or C-02 Priced on the retreat package
Videographer + edited reel AED 1,200
Anonymous pre-day pulse survey with report AED 2,400

Questions about The Alignment Day

How much does The Alignment Day cost per person?
AED 890 per person for 12–19 people; AED 740 per person for 20–39 people; AED 650 per person for 40+ people. All figures exclude 5% VAT. Smaller groups are welcome and are billed at the band's minimum chargeable persons (17 for the 12–19 band, 23 for the 20–39 band).
How long does The Alignment Day take, and when does it start?
9 hrs. 08:30 — the hard thinking happens before lunch, and this day is built around that Departure window: 08:00–09:00. The published timeline is door-to-door and already includes the transfer.
What is not included in The Alignment Day?
Psychometric or profiling instruments (see add-ons); Follow-up sessions or coaching (see add-ons); Overnight accommodation; 5% VAT. These are stated before enquiry rather than raised at invoice time.
What happens to The Alignment Day if the weather turns?
None — fully indoor, no outdoor content. The documented fallback is: Facilitator illness is the real risk, and it is covered by a contracted named backup who is briefed on the pre-work from day one, not called on the morning. Venue failure moves to a contracted alternate hotel inside the same district.. Immediate, by phone to the sponsor, with the backup facilitator introduced before the day proceeds. The sponsor decides whether to run or reschedule — we do not.
How far in advance do we need to book The Alignment Day?
21 days — the pre-work interviews need three of them. Ramadan and December dates book out first.

Who you are actually booking with

Written terms
Inclusions and exclusions on every package
Settled before signature, not at invoice
Contingency
Named fallback on every outdoor programme
Weather trigger and notification deadline on record

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