Bolidea – Giving Rise to Stellar Companies

by Magda Rocki

Last week’s post dealt with pre-planning the basic elements that assure your startup’s offsite is successful: who should be there? Talking about what, when, and why?  This week’s focus is on executing the planning and ensuring everything runs smoothly the day of the offsite and onwards.

STEP TWO- Day of the offsite: Executing the planning and guiding your team towards resolution

Ask your team to turn off their cellphones: no distractions allowed! It can even be a good idea to disconnect the internet access during topic sessions, so that participants remain focused on the task at hand. The goal is after all to have everyone participate.

Remind the participants of the agenda items and add missing items ( if needed): to decrease the incidents of tangents and off-topic discussions,  make sure to stick to the proposed agenda items. Think of the agenda items as promises you don’t wish to break.

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