YOU WANT TO BRING YOUR PEOPLE TOGETHER TO WORK MAGIC
Here’s how you can run
your team offsite
You know that mastering the challenges of the future requires you to grow together as a team, build trust and effectively lean into each other.
Team offsites typically work one of two ways
Work Offsites
…prioritise content sessions powered
by power point. These can be
productive but tend to fail to
touch people’s hearts.
VS
Fun Offsites
... are all about building relationships... but then everyone goes home back to same old same old patterns and nothing meaningful truly changes.
We believe that work and fun go together.
The best offsites combine togetherness and work deep dives.
Culture-building experiences and strategy sessions.
Transforming the sources of conflict and celebrating together.
OUR TEAM OFFSITE PHILOSOPHY
1. Let’s create an experience that inspires
We craft a day that's akin to a 4-course gourmet meal. The integrated work-joy approach helps people think better, remember better and gain energy from the whole day. The flow will flow.
2. Let’s design a custom flow
Every single intervention is designed to meet your specific goals. We don’t believe in cookie cutter team building exercises. That’s why we invest significant time upfront to get to know you (and the elephants in your room) and then design a flow that gives your team what it needs to get to the next level.
3. Let’s create real value
You are getting more than just cheerleaders or team moderators. With our international team of select senior facilitators we blend cutting-edge facilitation techniques with strategic expertise and distinguished coaching skills. Let’s make sure that this is a profound experience with a lasting impact.
TRUE FOR STARTUPS, MID-SIZED ORGANISATIONS AND FORTUNE 500s
Great offsites have the power to elevate your system to the next level.
Your gain working magic with us
TAILORED DESIGN
You tell us your goals and we’ll equip you with the best interactive design for you to have both a memorable experience and a productive output.
LEAN BACK AND LEAN IN
We hold the space for you to keep your attention on the team and fully participate. We will easily catch any curve balls and transform conflict that may come up.
SAVE YOUR TEAM TIME
You focus on your priorities. We’ll iron out the entire day flow, materials needed and make sure it feelssimplylikemagic.
What does working magic look like in practice?
CASE STUDY FROM AN INTERNATIONAL FASHION BRAND
The leadership team wanted to work on their team cohesion and do something to improve their customer journey.
Their original thinking was: A morning session to look at the numbers and discuss how to do it better. In the afternoon a boat trip for teambuilding.
This is what the day ended up looking like instead:
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The CEO put on a show and presented the redesign of the customer journey as a mission to their team.
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Employing reversed psychology, the team came up with all the ways in which things might go horribly wrong along the current customer journey. Overdoing it with exaggerated examples made it easier to face the tough reality that they were losing customers in real life and talk about problem areas and bottlenecks openly and without blame.
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The team went on a walk in nature in groups of three with “visualisation stops” where they got to sit down at beautiful point with a view and listen to audio journeys that invited them to see/feel and think along the lines of the box of a new customer journey.
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During a portion of an extensive and delicious lunch break, the participants were invited to begin all their sentences with “what if”.
From“what if we bow to our customers when they come to the cash register?” to “what if you pass me the salt?”, this lead to lots of belly laughter, a fun atmostphere and the sharing one “one-upping” of some great ideas.
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The team picked their top 3 directions and designed new customer journeys powered by bags of lego.
The mutual presentations of their prototypes were both entertaining and insightful and we closed with a strategic decision session in which a few changes were deemed “safe enough to try”.
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During a private dinner everyone shared touching stories from their family history...
There were goosebumps all over.
How we co-design your offsite
1) Intro Session
We hop on a call and ask you a lot of questions: about who you are, who you aren’t, who you want to be, what your offsite is about and what the elephants in the room might be.
2) Co-creation
Based on what you’ve given us (and perhaps some interviews with your team), we’ll come up with a rough design. Think wild west, no saddle. We’ll present it to you and then shoot at the design together to see which parts still stand afterwards.
3) The Details
In our last design phase we’ll iron out final kinks and make sure all the details are right, from your intro words to making sure Peter has what he needs for his breakout session.
We’ve got you covered. Now pack your bags and we’ll see you there.
Let’s have a virtual coffee and explore what kind of team day makes sense for your team.
We’re big fans of honest, informal chats. No fancy ties, salesyness or attachment to outcome.
FAQs
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We work with high-growth startups to big established companies from AI to automotive. You are the experts in your field. We are the experts in leadership, collaboration, communication and a few other areas like sustainability, gender-positive leadership and how the brain works…
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We are explicitly not proponets of a given school of thought, but rather draw on the newest research from a myriad of different specialities: organisational psychology, neuroscience, experience design, social movements, mindfulness, philosophy to name a few.
Our underlying belief system: We want a world that works for all. To move minds you need to move hearts. If it’s fun, it’s good.
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Our approach is experiential, meaning you’re much more likely to have your hands in play dough than just leaning back and listening.
We’ve got a big bag of tricks to draw upon and gauge just how “out there” it makes sense to be together. Where useful, we are happy to employ external methods, such as Barrett Analytics or the Neurocolor personality assessment.
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Ideally an offsite takes place out of your usual context, simply because context affects how we behave. We’d rather work with you in a converted barn, go hiking or be in a beautiful place in nature.
Different context, different ideas. It’s great if the place matches the quality you are wanting to invite in.
But we can make magic happen anywhere.
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While we love having a couple of months to co-create, design and prepare our work, we’ve been known to whip up a 5-course leadership offsite in a matter of days, so last-minute requests are welcome.
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In person? 500. Online 2.000.
Although those are big kahunas. We are absolutely smitten to work with intimate teams: three is a team.
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Send us a note and let’s find a time to have a virtual coffee soon. Kudos if you actually bring a coffee.
