Bringing a team together – whether that be for meetings, offsites, retreats, kickoffs, happy hours, or other forms of gathering – is an important part of cultivating team culture, generating alignment, and building connection. Many will report that their teams don’t meet often enough, or meet too much. At the heart of both critiques is a question – when we do meet, how do we ensure it’s a valuable and worthwhile investment of time and resources?
Many are currently considering plans for team gatherings at the end of this year or the start of 2025, and we wanted to offer our insight and expertise around how to ensure that when you gather, you do it well.
Are you clear on why you need to come together? What outcomes would make that use of time and resources worth it? To design your gathering well, all decisions about virtual or in-person, agenda, team building activities, and more should be intentional, clearly serving what you’re out to do together and why it matters.
In this episode, Mickey, Emma Rose, and their colleague Patrick Kennedy share what they’ve learned from advising clients on this very challenge, and how you can design your upcoming gatherings to serve the needs of your team and your business.
Resources:
Blog: That Email Could Have Been a Meeting
Blog: Do This One Thing to Run Your Meetings More Effectively
Sept. 25, 2024
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