Offsites, whether for your leadership team or global organisation, are very much back on the agenda. We work every week with different clients preparing for, curating, and facilitating energetic and strategic team building moments to unite and propel teams forward.
Here are our 5 top tips for effectively pulling off your offsite in a world that is more complex than ever and yet demands even more value from the time you invest in spending together:
💡 TIP 1 – Make fun a top priority but don’t feel you specifically need to create extra sessions for it, integrate laughter and human connection into every part of the programme, even if you are covering what might be considered purely business content. We created a World Cafe format to give people space to process what they heard from leadership and how they felt about it – all feedback was invited back to leadership and it was powerful on many levels!
💡 TIP 2 – Design the offsite with the future in mind. Come with a very clear PURPOSE to what you want people to think, feel and do AT THE END of the offsite. Make it an experience to travel through a well curated PROGRAMME and not an AGENDA. Make it obvious how the offsite is a valuable moment in the continuum of your development and achievements as a team for the long term. We always make sure our clients have a roadmap to execute within two weeks of leaving an offsite and we hold them accountable.
💡 TIP 3 – Be careful of the proportion of broadcast to interactive elements. People are excited to engage, to contribute to the agenda for your future, so let them! We recommend minimum 80% interactive and maximum 20% broadcast content. There are excellent ways to facilitate interactivity and energy around crucial teamwork content today. We have no shortage of experiential ideas for this to inject energy, develop relationships spark and new ideas!
💡 TIP 4 – Make space for every single person to comfortably find their way into your offsite programme. Some people are new, have never met, are cautious and excited in equal measure. Curate sessions so that people know what is expected from them, and even better, encourages them to get their voice in the room – at all levels of seniority! We are an advocate of Pass the Baton (yes a real baton), to get everyone sharing.
💡 TIP 5 – Use the time to ‘get away’. Ideally, meet away from your day-to-day location and use greenspace wherever possible. An offsite is a crucial and rare opportunity in the year to WORK ON THE TEAM versus doing WORK ON THE BUSINESS. Even if you can’t book a function space, use your office space creatively to make it feel like a different environment. We persuaded one client to use their canteen, which was a novelty, and worked brilliantly for what ended up being 150+ person hybrid offsite.
Never hesitate to contact us for ideas or energy in abundance!
#leadership #teambuilding #becourageousOffsites, whether for your leadership team or global organisation, are very much back on the agenda. We work every week with different clients preparing for, curating, and facilitating energetic and strategic team building moments to unite and propel teams forward.
Here are our 5 top tips for effectively pulling off your offsite in a world that is more complex than ever and yet demands even more value from the time you invest in spending together:
💡 TIP 1 – Make fun a top priority but don’t feel you specifically need to create extra sessions for it, integrate laughter and human connection into every part of the programme, even if you are covering what might be considered purely business content. We created a World Cafe format to give people space to process what they heard from leadership and how they felt about it – all feedback was invited back to leadership and it was powerful on many levels!
💡 TIP 2 – Design the offsite with the future in mind. Come with a very clear PURPOSE to what you want people to think, feel and do AT THE END of the offsite. Make it an experience to travel through a well curated PROGRAMME and not an AGENDA. Make it obvious how the offsite is a valuable moment in the continuum of your development and achievements as a team for the long term. We always make sure our clients have a roadmap to execute within two weeks of leaving an offsite and we hold them accountable.
💡 TIP 3 – Be careful of the proportion of broadcast to interactive elements. People are excited to engage, to contribute to the agenda for your future, so let them! We recommend minimum 80% interactive and maximum 20% broadcast content. There are excellent ways to facilitate interactivity and energy around crucial teamwork content today. We have no shortage of experiential ideas for this to inject energy, develop relationships spark and new ideas!
💡 TIP 4 – Make space for every single person to comfortably find their way into your offsite programme. Some people are new, have never met, are cautious and excited in equal measure. Curate sessions so that people know what is expected from them, and even better, encourages them to get their voice in the room – at all levels of seniority! We are an advocate of Pass the Baton (yes a real baton), to get everyone sharing.
💡 TIP 5 – Use the time to ‘get away’. Ideally, meet away from your day-to-day location and use greenspace wherever possible. An offsite is a crucial and rare opportunity in the year to WORK ON THE TEAM versus doing WORK ON THE BUSINESS. Even if you can’t book a function space, use your office space creatively to make it feel like a different environment. We persuaded one client to use their canteen, which was a novelty, and worked brilliantly for what ended up being 150+ person hybrid offsite.
Never hesitate to contact us for ideas or energy in abundance!
#leadership #teambuilding #becourageousOffsites, whether for your leadership team or global organisation, are very much back on the agenda. We work every week with different clients preparing for, curating, and facilitating energetic and strategic team building moments to unite and propel teams forward.
Here are our 5 top tips for effectively pulling off your offsite in a world that is more complex than ever and yet demands even more value from the time you invest in spending together:
💡 TIP 1 – Make fun a top priority but don’t feel you specifically need to create extra sessions for it, integrate laughter and human connection into every part of the programme, even if you are covering what might be considered purely business content. We created a World Cafe format to give people space to process what they heard from leadership and how they felt about it – all feedback was invited back to leadership and it was powerful on many levels!
💡 TIP 2 – Design the offsite with the future in mind. Come with a very clear PURPOSE to what you want people to think, feel and do AT THE END of the offsite. Make it an experience to travel through a well curated PROGRAMME and not an AGENDA. Make it obvious how the offsite is a valuable moment in the continuum of your development and achievements as a team for the long term. We always make sure our clients have a roadmap to execute within two weeks of leaving an offsite and we hold them accountable.
💡 TIP 3 – Be careful of the proportion of broadcast to interactive elements. People are excited to engage, to contribute to the agenda for your future, so let them! We recommend minimum 80% interactive and maximum 20% broadcast content. There are excellent ways to facilitate interactivity and energy around crucial teamwork content today. We have no shortage of experiential ideas for this to inject energy, develop relationships spark and new ideas!
💡 TIP 4 – Make space for every single person to comfortably find their way into your offsite programme. Some people are new, have never met, are cautious and excited in equal measure. Curate sessions so that people know what is expected from them, and even better, encourages them to get their voice in the room – at all levels of seniority! We are an advocate of Pass the Baton (yes a real baton), to get everyone sharing.
💡 TIP 5 – Use the time to ‘get away’. Ideally, meet away from your day-to-day location and use greenspace wherever possible. An offsite is a crucial and rare opportunity in the year to WORK ON THE TEAM versus doing WORK ON THE BUSINESS. Even if you can’t book a function space, use your office space creatively to make it feel like a different environment. We persuaded one client to use their canteen, which was a novelty, and worked brilliantly for what ended up being 150+ person hybrid offsite.
Never hesitate to contact us for ideas or energy in abundance!
#leadership #teambuilding #becourageous
