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Business
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Life Off-Sites
& Company Retreats

Cheap
off-site tips:
Keep
it close: restaurants, hotels, museums and even local colleges rent out space for meetings.
Keep
it affordable: Hire local, or recruit talented team members
to lead activities.
Keep
it simple: Even a long lunch away from the office can get team members thinking in new ways.
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Oh,
geez. Not that rope thing again.
Climbing
trees? Role playing games?
Oh ...and all those those endless PowerPoint presentations from
upper management.
We've
all been there, but company retreats and off-site meetings don't have to prove
that members of your work group are truly "team players." In fact, off-sites
can be great opportunities for networking with the department down the hall, or
for learning more about a particular field or industry. Take
a tip from experts in the field about how to arrange a more relaxed and enjoyable
company retreat with timely advice on activities that make an off-site meeting
worth all the planning ...
Take
a Hike - The cheap and affordable mini-offsite, with an
idea for holding your next meeting anywhere but in the office.
Teampedia
Tools for Teams - Tired of the same old team building
games and exercises at every off site or retreat? This user-edited
resource has tons of resources for you to use to add some variety
to the fun.
Fast
Company | Can This Off-Site Be Saved?
- A great read from the digital home of the print magazine, with
valuable reports from the front lines plus additional advice listing
The Four Deadly Sins of Off-Sites.
Off-Site
Meetings - Don't Ya Just Love 'Em? - A good laugh, featuring
less-than-great moments at off-sites including awkward icebreakers,
PowerPoint presentation bugs, and those, um, open dialogs ...
The
Seven Deadly Sins of Business Retreats and How to Avoid Them - Biting
off more than you can chew, no clear direction, boredom, and four more...
Beware
the Dreaded Off-Site Technology Meeting - More laughs
over horror stories you'll probably recognize, with a single priceless
suggestion: get staff input before the off-site meeting.
10
Tips for Successful Management Retreats - Good, common
sense advice, such as including industry overviews, inviting vendors
and clients as guest speakers, and balancing work and play at
the off-site.
also
see related feature -> How
to host a fun office retreat also
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