calls to make, and information to announce. Planners may face an immense amount of pressure from their management team or corporate office to plan a monumental retreat on a miniscule budget.
Planning the perfect retreat is very dependent on having a good understanding of your team. There is no one-size-fits-all or gold standard for team retreats. Instead, it’s about making sure that you know your team well enough to build the right retreat for them. ...
“Our retreat was at a lake house in the middle of nowhere, and it was perfect — a great escape for our team that is normally stationed in NYC,” he says. “It made for some natural activities, like hiking, swimming, boating and building fires, to do outside of the two to three ...
“A great way to solicit people’s input for retreat planning is to ask them what they don’t want in a retreat,” says Marz. “Ask them what would be a disaster. This helps surface some people’s concerns, usually in a playful way, that will tell you a lot about where...
It’s all fine and great to say you’re at a writers’ retreat to write. In fact, I’m sure each and every one of you thought that was obvious. I’m equally sure that, without someone stepping into a leadership role, that’s never going to happen. You’ll spend the mornings chatt...
Planning a retreat for Christian men can be a difficult task if you do not have the right resources in hand, however, there are several things that can be done to plan a successful men's retreat. It is important to know the men and their needs before choosing a theme or trying to set...
Plan your own These are just a few ways that we make sure we are getting the maximum return on our team retreats. If you want the full story, our Retreat Planning Guide is publicly available inside theServerless Company Handbook. Feel free to peruse. ...
Planning Your Mastermind Retreat Schedule We were looking forward to spending time together just as friends, but we determined our main goal was to dig in a get work done. To facilitate this, we determined a theme (Beating the Summer Traffic Slump), and also set a schedule for our days. ...
If you have a project that's too big to fit into a two-hour meeting slot, a retreat might be just the tool you need to hash it out. Here's how to make sure you get the most out of your time offsite.
My gut feeling was that it would be great to take three months to do a retreat like this. That didn’t seem possible given the obligations of my life. But when I thought about it, 10 days seemed like a stretch and yet realistic. ...