Thrive At Work Team

Sometimes clients ask us if there’s a “best” time of year to schedule their team retreat...

😎 We co-design and facilitate retreats any time of year, but the best time of year for you might depend. Here are some things to think about:

📆 When are people most available to take time away from work? When do people have enough bandwidth to feel comfortable stepping away from the day-to-day? (Stay clear of spring breaks and vacations)

🌴 Think about your retreat goals, sometimes that can help with timing. For instance, if your goal is team building and you want to be outside, then we need to either look at the location or make sure it’s warm weather season where you are.

👍 Generally speaking, our clients book retreats at the beginning of the year in January to get that “fresh start” vibe, the beginning of summer before vacations get into full swing, or fall after kids go back to school and we have that “hunker down” kind of momentum. Get in touch to talk about the timing for your next retreat! We are booking late summer into the fall!

What makes for a great team retreat?

🚩 The best retreats start with clear outcomes and thoughtfully craft retreat activities and facilitation around those outcomes.

🙌 Great retreats create opportunities for meaningful connection.

🏖 They create opportunities to find alignment, feel rejuvenated and energized, and provide opportunities to learn and have important conversations.

☝ They are clear about decision-making and what happens next.

Want to think through your next retreat? Message me! Designing and facilitating great retreats is the kind of work we love. 🤩

We're talking all things retreats this week. So what kind of retreats do teams have?

The retreats we co-design and facilitate for our clients tend to fall into five types. Sometimes clients mix and match and sometimes we create something completely new, but overall teams gather away from work to:

🗺 Plan. Sometimes teams want to develop a 1-2 year team or organization plan, sometimes they want a plan focused on something specific like culture or growth or a new program or product. Whatever planning a team needs to do, a planning retreat helps teams go from the big picture to what happens this month so they can get started right away.

💫 Purpose. Purpose retreats can focus on organizational or team purpose, guided by our “strategic compass” methodology. If a team or group of individuals is ready to connect with their sense of individual purpose, we thoughtfully guide people into a deep understanding of their core gifts.

🙌 Teambuild. This is the type of retreat you need when the team needs to bond, connect in meaningful ways and share experiences together that build trust and belonging.

🧡 Heal. Some teams endure incredibly difficult experiences and need to make sense of what happened in order to move forward. Healing retreats are designed to help people make sense together, identify lessons learned and chart a path forward.

🌊 Deep dive. When your team needs to explore an opportunity or problem in depth, we’ll go from identifying the “pieces and parts” to identifying key questions and putting together action steps forward.

✏ Learn. Sometimes a retreat is just about learning how to think about or do something new. If the learning has to do with people and work, we’ve got you. We put together engaging learning sessions, tap into your team’s expertise, and partner with outside experts as needed.

Of course, if your team needs something beyond what we’re talking about here, we design custom retreats too. There’s work that cannot be done every day, and there’s work that can only be done together, that’s the power of retreats.

Learn more here: https://www.thriveatworkteam.com/retreats

Retreats — Thrive at Work Need help designing your team retreat? For many teams, hybrid work can mean a daily gauntlet of back-to-back virtual meetings, email, chats, and fitting in “actual work” in off hours. It’s never been more important to step back from day-to-day work and carve out quality time together. We desig...

Let's talk about work retreats! Check out Evan Ishida's new blog post on the do's and don'ts of great retreats. With hybrid and remote teams, it's especially important to get a couple of team retreats scheduled every year, so you can build the kind of connections that fuel collaboration and get work done when you're back at your desks.

https://www.thriveatworkteam.com/blog/the-dos-and-donts-of-team-retreats

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