Change the scenery. Not the focus.
High-speed fibre and a real meeting room in the morning. The garden and the pool in the afternoon. A private bedroom for each at night. The kind of offsite your team still talks about on Tuesday, and credits to you.
The best ideas need room to breathe
Something shifts on the second day. The meeting that would have taken an hour takes twenty minutes. The idea someone held back on Slack for weeks comes out over coffee. The best offsites don't add anything to a team. They remove what was in the way.
- Fibre that holds up, even on twenty video calls at once
- Projector, pull-down screen
- Whiteboard, paperboard, post-its
- A proper meeting room, not a reshuffled salon
- Private bedroom with ensuite for each
- Pool, hot tub
- Pétanque, billiards, babyfoot
- Chef dinner, on-site or delivered
Each home has its own mix. You'll find the exact list on its page.
Usually I run the offsite. This time I actually got to be in it.
I organize two offsites a year. My job is usually to be the first one up and the last one asleep. Here the house was warm, the meeting room was already set, Harmony had handled transport from the station. For once, I got to enjoy the offsite like everyone else. My director asked where we were going next year before we'd even left the house.