Now is the time to run a team offsite!
Great news everyone! Team offsites are not what they used to be, and that’s a good thing! That’s right no longer will your precious employees' time be wasted with abstract activities, or forcing them to hold hands and sing kumbaya around the campfire! Instead, team offsites are now all about adding real value to your business by forging robust bonds between team members and identifying the strategies that will propel your particular business to success. Read on to find out more!
What even is an offsite, anyway?
An offsite is an event where team members visit a location outside of their usual premises, meet together, and complete specific activities. The purpose of an offsite is to add value to a business by strengthening the team and ensuring they work together as a whole in an effective way.
Team building
One of the most important benefits of an offsite is building a strong team that can work together competently. Indeed, there has never been a more important time to ensure that your team members can relate and work with each other. After all, the Pandemic over the last 2 years has presented many challenges, not least the massive shift to working remotely.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with a zoom meeting, now and then. Yet to truly get the best out of your team they need to be allowed to meet in person and form authentic connections. It is these relationships that will stand them in good stead when they return to the office or continue to work from home.
The good news is that offsites provide the best opportunities for forging strong and lasting connections between your team members and encouraging effective teamwork. After all, it's much easier to be authentic when engaged in a fun and challenging task outside of the office than it is on work premises, or over Zoom.
Offsites can even provide opportunities for vulnerability that is almost impossibly hard to create in a traditional working environment. Opportunities that can lead to trust and become the foundations of better support and understanding as well as empathy between team members.
Setting strategy goals
The benefits of offsites aren’t just limited to building a more robust team, however. They are also critical when it comes to getting everyone on the same page and pulling in the same direction.
What we are talking about here is that offsites are perfectly placed to facilitate the setting (or resetting) of crucial strategy goals for your business. The reason is that they provide you with a neutral space and a limited time in which to bring your leaders together and get those vital decisions made.
By setting this time and space aside for the decision-making process, you can make it much more efficient and focused. Something that in turn will allow you and your team to head back to the office with actionable plans you can put in motion, the moment you step through the door.
To get the most from your offsite session you need a facilitator that understands how to forge a strong team and drive strategic goals. That is why you should choose our experts here at Vollardian for all your team's offsite needs.
