Are your management offsites optimised for impact?
Holding regular (eg quarterly) leadership offsites is one of the most important investments you can make in building a high performance leadership team. But it’s also a very expensive use of company time. So make it count.?
Accelerate team performance. Offsites provide an incredible opportunity to enhance how the team operates. Leverage an assessment like the Team Assessment by the Table Group to understand your leadership team’s strengths and opportunities for growth - and carve out intentional time to talk about this as a team.?
Revisit your vision and mission. Always spend a little time to see whether the company is still staying true to its vision and purpose, and if there’s a misalignment, it could require a change in strategy (or indicate a change in mission).?
From operational to strategic. Offsites are ideal for deliberately stepping away from daily operational demands and focusing instead on the strategic. What 2-3 challenges are holding the business back? What 2-3 strategic decisions need to be made as a team so the business can move forward in alignment? What 2-3 opportunities exist that you aren’t leaning into today, that you should be? If, 12 months from now, you were to look back on this year as an incredible success, what would you have done? What can you do now to move in that direction??
Design sessions with the goal in mind. Each session should have an objective, and design deliberately for it.?
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Balance topics across risks and opportunities. Focusing overly on either risks or opportunities can expose blindspots in strategic decision-making. Make sure you balance the agenda across mitigating the top risks and maximising the best opportunities that could have outsized impact on your business.?
Make intentional time for teambuilding. Spending time together as people - building human connection - is critical to building trust, the cornerstone of high performing teams. No matter how busy the agenda seems, don’t shortcut time here.?
Love this list and I would add, hire a facilitator to support you in designing an agenda that will help you actually achieve your objectives. Then have that person facilitate the event so you stay on course and every member of the team can contribute equally!
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1 年Thanks for sharing. It's great insight on how to improve how we use the time. For those who haven't read Gino Wickman's book Traction, EOS Worldwide suggests 5 days a year, once a quarter and two for the annual. It's expensive to pull your full leadership time out of running the business for that long. And it's the best investment I've seen companies make. EOS companies are using that time to set clear goals for the year, and then each quarter. They're discussing what worked, and what didn't, how much they got accomplished, and where they missed the mark, what's holding them back, and how to overcome it. Yes it's expensive, and if you only spend time running the business you're never going to grow.