4 leadership rules for the ultimate staff away day

When it comes to team building, there’s a right way and a wrong way of doing things. Throwing yourself and your team into an out of office activity can be an ideal way to facilitate change and encourage thought leadership.

We spoke to Gordon Rudow, Director of Organisation Engagement and Jeremy Morgan, Partner at Lippincott, a creative consultancy, who explained how to execute the “art of the beautiful off-site”.

“There are numerous barriers that prevent us from realising the beauty and possibility of these events,” the pair explained, “from strategic vacuums to one-way PowerPoint presentations that would sap the energy of any group. Planning for and designing these events are rarely a priority.

“But in this ever-quickening world where change is the only normal, the company off-site can have, if we could just think about it a little differently, a truly unique power.”