Planning a team offsite can be a multi-month project which includes budgeting, choosing a destination and venue, planning activities and an interactive agenda, and communication.

Ensuring your team offsite is impactful, fun, and fresh begins with a well-formatted agenda, with the right balance of collaboration and downtime. Your agenda is meant to enhance your team experience so that all those involved find value in taking the time away from their day-to-day.

Connecting with colleagues in person leaves room for spontaneity as well as dedicated conversations you can plan ahead of time. When teams can cross-collaborate with other teams and get to know them on a personal level, it strengthens the overall culture, not just on the team level.

Planning an international retreat for a large gathering can be intimidating. And for good reason. International retreats take us to unknown places, with different cultures, foods, and ways of doing things. Plus, they tend to be more logistically complicated. But international retreats also give way to some of the most exciting and remarkable trips you can give to your employees.

Planning an international retreat for a large gathering can be intimidating. And for good reason. International retreats take us to unknown places, with different cultures, foods, and ways of doing things. Plus, they tend to be more logistically complicated. But international retreats also give way to some of the most exciting and remarkable trips you can give to your employees.

This week we are doing a deep dive into what it means to plan an international retreat. While it can seem intimidating to take guests overseas, we have seen it be the most rewarding and inexpensive way to say, “Let’s get together and collaborate!”