4 Critical Elements Of A Successful Company Retreat

A great company retreat has the power to transform your organization’s product and/or processes. Get it right, and you’ll embolden and unify your team. Get it wrong, and you’ll end up spending money for employees to have a day off, or worse, your team will come away less motivated than before.

At my company, we’ve done quarterly retreats since 2011 and have identified four critical elements to a successful retreat: learning, sharing, bonding and unifying.

Company retreats are a powerful tool for your bottom line. Follow these steps to ensure you don’t mess it up.

When people learn together, they develop a unique relationship. Learning during a company retreat can take on many forms. At our retreats, employees learn about:

When people don’t feel they have a voice, they often check out or grow resentful. A good company retreat must incorporate time where everyone is given appropriate chances to voice concerns and ideas for the future. At our retreats employees share:

Bonding time is invaluable because it fosters deeper relationships between team members. During our retreats, employees bond over:

A unified team is unstoppable. Unifying a group means setting aside personal agendas to see larger goals accomplished. At our retreats we unify toward:

Utilizing these key concepts in planning your retreat will ensure that your team feels empowered, energized, and ready to tackle any challenge. Our retreats are a core element of our culture, and we have found that the time spent away from the office often yields a 10x return in productivity and eventual profitability. As my company expects to grow 50% this year without stressing or missing a beat, I can confidently say that a core part of our success formula lies in unifying our team around core strategic priorities developed during these retreats.

— Brandon

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