FACILITATION & OFFSITES

Particpant feedback "Loved the lateral thinking" "How well the activities maintained engagement" "The games and activities were so much fun" " Loved the game and the learning from posters not powerpoint" "Great team collaboration, high energy and the day flowed well" "Loved that everyone was involved and included" "Liked how we kept moving and used different spaces in the room" "Enjoyed the reflection moments to digest what we had experienced and turn it into practical take aways" "Loved the visualisation, colour, music and energy"

Overview

Leadership team and team offsites can lift team connection and engagement, whilst helping groups achieve outcomes when they come together every few months. Using highly engaging posters full of colour, Sam's offsites bring energy, authenticity and inclusion to an offsite. No powerpoints, more fun, more learning through doing rather than learning through being talked at. Activities and games are at the core of the workshop design and delivery. Our custom workshops will be co-designed with you to ensure participants are engaged, listened to and that the outcomes are achieved.
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What types of workshops and offsites?

  • Most offsites are usually in person (but can be done virtually) at the client's site, and can range from a half day to two days. Recent successful workshops completed include :
  • Half day Team dynamics workshop for 12 leaders using Team Management Systems profiles
  • One day leadership offsite for 60 leaders for annual planning using visualisation and other agile techniques
  • One day leadership offsite for 110 leaders for creative learning through the creation of videos, podcast and games
  • One day leadership offsite for 35 leaders for capability uplift of agile ways of thinking and being
  • Two day quarterly planning workshop for a team of 25

Ideas for your next offiste

Here is a selection of some modules that can be incorporated into our offsites and workshops
Agile Games:
Iterative agile games, fun and engaging ways to learn the power of feedback loops and working in short iterations
  • Ball Game
  • Spaghetti Bridge Showdown
  • Agile transformation snakes and ladders
  • Scrum anti-patterns
  • The Game of Agile Leadership
Team Problem Solving:
Activities to help teams create solutions to problems and challenges they are facing
  • Solution focused workshop to understand problems, create goals, brainstorm options and agree the next actions to move forward
  • Employee engagement survey action planning workshops
  • Agile maturity assessment action planning workshops
  • Retrospectives, timeline retros
Discovery
Activities to understand customer value, needs and focus areas
  • Lean canvas workshops
  • Value stream mapping
  • Value proposition canvas
  • Persona creation
  • Empathy mapping
Facilitation Skills
Tools and techniques, tips and tricks, for in person, hybrid and virtual environments
  • 2 hour workshops, one day workshops, two day courses
  • Topics include group decision making, how you show up as a presenter, conversational mapping, listening, affinity mapping, preparing for a workshop, kicking it off, managing the flow and challenging participants
Planning:
Activities to help teams plan together at scale, to understand priorities, estimate relative effort, trade offs, dependencies, risks and challenges.
  • Roadmap planning across teams or business areas
  • OKR creation bottom up or top down
  • Pre-mortem and futurespectives
Agile Leadership:
Learning modules for Agile leadership to support leaders in how they can best show up to support agile teams to high performance
  • Intent based leadership
  • Leader as coach
  • Emotional agility
  • Taking Personal Responsibility
  • Your Values and Beliefs as leaders
  • Culture assessments and workshops
  • Psychological safety assessments and workshops
  • Agile maturity assessments and workshops
Team kick offs:
Activities to build the relationships within a team and start to develop trust and support from the start
  • Team dynamics self assessments with Team Management Systems
  • Team kick off workshops, define the team's purpose, values, ways of working, communication styles, roles, priorities and more
Creative thinking
Creative workshops to help people think differently and learn in different ways
  • Iterative design workshop where people create podcasts, short videos or board games to help learn or teach a topic to each other and beyond
  • Fun ways to embed learning in a very non traditional way
  • Community volunteering to connect with a charity and understand the challenges and how we can support and help

What else do you need to know?

Some other things to consider

  • Plan ahead to ensure sufficient time for an iterative design and to align calendars. 2-3 months ahead is ideal.
  • SMEs required from the client during the design to help with context and ensuring the day meets the objectives.
  • Large room size required - typically a room that has a capacity 50% larger than number of attendees, with lots of wall space!
  • Think about the outcomes you want to achieve, the feelings and emotions you want people to have at the end of the workshop.
  • Additional services like 'live' sketchnoting also available
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