If you’re thinking about taking your team offsite, you’ll want to join the Wily Manager guys this week, as they talk about how to do this effectively. Lay off the silly games, and have a clear purpose for your meeting.
Monday’s Tip: Meetings are Expensive – calculate your return. If you can’t calculate the value a meeting will add, you shouldn’t have the meeting. Question the value you’re getting out of your offsite meeting.
Tuesday’s Tip: Have a Clear Purpose. What performance, action, or behavior do you want to be different as a result of your Offsite meeting? If you are unsure, you need to nail this down before having the meeting.
Wednesday’s Tip: Be Cautious With Silly Games. Silly games often have little value, and have no impact on team cohesion or performance. Be extremely cautious – a poorly executed exercise may do far more harm than good.
Thursday’s Tip: Remember People Have Lives Outside of Work. A golf weekend away with the people from work may looking like fun on the surface, but people have other commitments as well that need to be considered.
Friday’s Tip: Manage Perceptions Carefully. If you chose to recognize your team by taking them away to a nice resort, consider the optics of this to other employees, clients and your employee’s families.