7 ways to spice up your corporate team retreat
Are you wondering how to plan for your next team retreat and make it memorable and productive? Do you have team members returning back to the office environment and want to help smooth out that transition?
Today’s TIP OF THE WEEK comes from Dana Brownless, a Senior Contributor with Forbes, and author of the book The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up: Project Management Techniques from
Colleagues rejoicing their work, shouting at business meeting.
the Trenches provides practical techniques that anyone can use to realize success working with diverse leader personalities.
In her article 7 ways to spice up your corporate team retreat, Brownlee provides some inspiring ideas to help leaders reconnect with their teams. Her top 7 inspiring ideas include topics on:
1. Randomly Mix Seating Multiple Teams.
2. Incorporate Activities That Require Movement
3. Actively Balance Task and Relationship Focus
4. Mix Presenters
5. Play Music
6. Include A Competitive Activity
7. Incorporate Participant Input
It’s an enlightening and fun read with some points I am sure some event planners haven’t attempted yet. But should! She is right on spot with breaking out discussions and balancing the team/relationship building and business components portion of the training.
The article is packed with creative and fun ideas to add to an event’s fun factor.
“I’ve even wrapped up a can of Spam as a gag prize, and the group loved it”, notes Brownlee. Plus, “consider asking everyone to share their communication pet peeve/preferred mode and first paid job along with their name and role”
I’ve even wrapped up a can of Spam as a gag prize, and the group loved it
She gracefully touches on the topic of diversity and guides event planners to strive to allow multi-presenters to help with group involvement. Group inclusiveness is something that you might not find if you only allow one person to control the flow. She encourages everyone to get involved on a higher level of buy-in. “It is refreshing when you get multiple people involved” and “a great way to enlist others into the planning process”, states Brownlee.
It is refreshing when you get multiple people involved” and “a great way to enlist others into the planning process
An excellent read for those creative leaders and facilitators thirsty for a few good ideas to add to their planning events. I highly recommend it.
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