9. How to Plan a Team Offsite That Actually Works
“Boar on the floor! Oink for your sausages, piggies.”
—Logan Roy, Season 2, episode 3
Do your team offsites include hunting, castles, taxidermy, and feasts that look like they were ripped from a Renaissance painting? What about hazing? Porcine role-playing? Dehumanizing interrogation techniques?
No matter what kind of team-building you partake in, offsites can be a mess. But they don’t have to be. Executive coach Ben Dattner encourages us to think about offsites as a “play within a play,” where leaders and the team rehearse new norms to take back to the workplace. By following a few “dos” and “don’ts” (do set ground rules and build in reflection time; don’t focus on individual development ...
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