As I said in an earlier blog, I love offsite meetings. I lead my clients through them at least twice a year because of the magic that takes place. Sure, most of us have horror stories about the offsite-from-hell that went on for days and left us all wondering why we were there in the first place. But with the right environment, a well executed offsite leads to epiphanies and understandings that one-off conversations cannot.
A great example of this is a recent offsite meeting I navigated where the boss dropped a bombshell of bad news on the group. Revenue and profitability bad news. It immediately sent the entire group into a semi state of shock. Like the proverbial ripping off of the bandage, the brutal facts of their situation smacked them in the head and forced an immediate attitude adjustment.
What happened next was 45 minutes of the most intense and valuable conversation this group will experience all year. It dropped all defenses. The entire group released their pent up fears, challenges and frustrations. After all, on the heels of the news they received, how bad could it get?
It turned a group with a ‘what the company needs to do for me’ mindset into one of ‘what can I now do for the company to be successful’ and did so in a split second! It forced many in the room to grow up in a business sense and brought beautifully into perspective their individual responsibilities to the whole.
In the end, they discovered that if each of them increased their revenues by just FIVE PERCENT, the entire issue would be corrected… FIVE PERCENT!!!!
Talk about getting a group to ride together and in the same direction…
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