CHAPTER 17
Virtual Off-Sites That Work
by Bob Frisch, Cary Greene, and Dan Prager
Are off-sites off for the foreseeable future? During the pandemic, social distancing recommendations and travel restrictions made it difficult, if not impossible, for many organizations to convene teams of any size within their offices, much less at sessions outside them. Not surprisingly, the initial reaction for most was to postpone or cancel those events, over concern that working together by phone or videoconference wouldn’t be as useful or productive as the in-person meeting would have been.
But some of the meaty, controversial types of topics often reserved for the rarefied atmosphere of off-sites still need to happen. Companies need to learn how to do them ...
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