Thrive At Work Team

What happens when you make time for team retreats?

When you make time for a team retreat once or twice a year you make time to:

-Build connections, bonds, and belonging that fuels trust, collaboration, and velocity of work 🙌

-Improve communication and collaboration 🤩

-Brainstorm new ideas and solutions to problems that get pushed off in everyday work 💡

-Learn new skills 📚

-Reflect and learn from progress and set new goals 🗺

-Celebrate successes, achievements, and survivals 🎉

-Refresh and recharge 🏖

When your team feels connected to each other and their work, they are more engaged, creative, collaborative, and productive.

Workplace retreats can provide a much-needed opportunity to build the social fabric of the team, explore opportunities, learn, and solve problems that are hard to solve when you’re not all together.

The time invested in a well-designed retreat pays off exponentially in how people work together afterward and the depth of connection they feel to their work and the team.

As one of our clients recently reported back to us:
“The time you spent with us was eye-opening. We’re all seeing our work through new perspectives, we made connections we’ve never made before, and we understand each other differently, so we’re working differently. We refer back to our retreat weekly”.

Want to plan a retreat for your team? Let's talk! Message me and let's design an awesome retreat.

While technology has some pretty impressive powers, it has displaced some of the community spaces that generations of humans were accustomed to like:

*going to the grocery store (Instacart)
*going to the bank (Venmo)
*going to the bowling alley (still fun, but Nintendo)
*post office (print-at-home stamps)
*shopping for anything (Amazon)

We’ve been noticing for years that one of the last places where organic community exists is at work. It’s the one place where you show up and have to interact with, be in a relationship with people you didn’t choose, who may be very different from you, and you have to figure out how to get some things done together.

Our real interest is in bringing community architecture to work supported by community-focused mindsets and practices.

We’re excited to find out if by adopting a community framework, workplaces not only do amazing, productive work but could it tap into the way we’re wired so people feel: fulfilled, connected, supported, valued, engaged, competent and resilient?

What do you think? Let us know in the comments.