Provide direction: Clear goals and ensure that everyone shares the same picture.
Develop ideas: Creative ideas emerge in a relaxed atmosphere, bringing a breath of fresh air to strategies.
Making decisions: Making well-founded decisions without distraction to ensure long-term success.
Addressing conflicts: Identify and constructively resolve existing tensions in an open and externally facilitated environment to promote constructive collaboration.
Adjust communication: Use space for exchange, create understanding, and ensure that all relevant information is passed on.
Prepare
- Define goals: We define the objectives for the offsite together with the responsible people in charge on your side in order to set the focus and define success indicators for the offsite.
- Conduct 1:1 interviews: We conduct individual, structured 1:1 mini-interviews with all participants in advance. This helps us to sharpen the perspective on topics, goals and the status quo.
- Develop the agenda: We create an agenda with topics and activities that work towards the defined goals.
- Choose methods: We select methods and tools for the offsite facilitation and adapt them to promote discussion and collaboration.
- Logistical planning: We organize the necessary logistical aspects such as venue, technology and materials to ensure a smooth process.
- Prepare participants: We ensure that participants receive all the necessary advance information for the offsite.
Run the offsite
- Moderate / Facilitate: We guide through the agenda, facilitate discussions and provide methodical support to ensure productive collaboration.
- Involve participants: We use interactive techniques to encourage participation and exchange between participants.
- Time management: We ensure that we make efficient use of the time available.
- Conflict management: We help resolve disagreements or challenges to maintain a constructive atmosphere.
Follow-up
- Results analysis: We evaluate the results of the discussion and identify measures and next steps for the follow-up.
- Documentation: We create a report that records the results and the agreed measures.
- Planning measures: We support you in developing action plans to implement the agreed measures or strategies.
- Follow-up strategy: We provide support in developing follow-up measures to monitor progress in implementation.
- Measure success: We ask the participants to evaluate the offsite using the predefined success criteria and obtain suggestions for improvements.
- Individual consultation: On request, we offer individual consultation with responsible initiators/managers to share observations and assessments from the offsite.
