Creating alignment, momentum and action
The success of an offsite isn’t measured by what happens in the room.
It’s what happens in the following weeks and months that matters.
Whether you’re aligning around strategy, navigating change, strengthening culture or building a stronger leadership team, our offsite experiences help leaders create a shared understanding of what matters most and what happens next.
Every offsite is tailored to your objectives and built using a combination of our leadership communication, storytelling and alignment modules.
Who it’s for
- Executive teams
- Leadership teams
- Functional leadership teams
- Teams going through change
- Newly formed teams
We have a range of tried and tested sessions you can rely on. Flexible, memorable and impactful.
The Season Finale
Imagine it’s 12 months from now and everything has gone to plan. What would you want the finale of this year-long season in your business story to include?
This facilitated strategic exercise, using the techniques that drive the most commercially successful TV dramas, helps leadership teams visualise success, identify the decisions that make it possible and align around the actions required to achieve it.
Best for:
- Annual planning
- Strategic planning
- Leadership offsites
- Vision-setting sessions
Leadership Story Foundations
Create a shared understanding of strategy, priorities and direction.
Many leadership teams leave an offsite with slightly different interpretations of what was agreed. This session helps leaders align around a common narrative that can be consistently communicated across the organisation.
Best for:
- Strategy offsites
- Leadership transitions
- New leadership teams
Leading Through Change
Enabling leaders to communicate uncertainty with greater confidence and clarity.
Participants learn how storytelling helps create understanding, reduce resistance and build momentum during periods of change.
Best for:
- Transformation programmes
- Change teams
- Leadership teams leading change
Building a Change Narrative
Develop the rich, flexible story behind a strategic initiative, transformation programme or culture shift.
Best for:
- Organisational change
- Transformation programmes
- Culture initiatives
Using Story to Influence and Get Buy-in
Structuring ideas in ways people understand, support and act on.
Best for:
- Leadership teams
- Future leaders
- Influencing stakeholders
- Strategic communication
Delivering Your Message with Impact
Upgrading clarity, confidence and presence of leaders at all levels
Best for:
- Executive teams
- Leadership teams
- Senior managers
Crafting a Clear Elevator Pitch
Developing a consistent and compelling method for anyone to communicate their role, team or function.
Best for:
- Leadership teams
- Business development teams
- Future leaders
Report writing that drives action
Interactive training event designed for auditors, risk managers, inspectors and assurance professionals.
Participants learn how to communicate findings clearly, confidently and persuasively to stakeholders, getting past the language barriers that so often get in the way of action.
Best for:
- Audit
- Risk
- Compliance
- Assurance functions
Storytelling for specialists
Technical expertise alone doesn’t create action.
This interactive and involving session teaches specialists how to communicate findings and recommendations in ways that build relationships, impress stakeholders and enhance credibility.
Best for:
- Audit
- Risk
- Compliance
- Technical functions
Leadership Offsites FAQs
What makes a good leadership offsite?
A good leadership offsite creates clarity and alignment around the decisions that matter most. It should result in a shared understanding of priorities, stronger team cohesion and clear actions that continue long after the event ends.
How can I guarantee a successful offsite?
Most successful leadership offsites include a combination of strategy, communication, alignment, team discussion and action planning. Too much telling is where problems begin.
What leadership offsite modules and sessions do you offer?
We’ll deliver 90-minute sessions, half-day workshops, full-day experiences and multi-day programmes. Your objectives, team size and available time will determine which option is best.
Our most in-demand sessions include leadership communication, strategic alignment, storytelling for leaders, influencing stakeholders, communicating change, vision setting, embedding culture and team alignment.
Can you customise an offsite for our organisation?
Yes. Every offsite session is tailored to your objectives, challenges and leadership team. We build agendas using a combination of our communication, storytelling and alignment modules.
How do you help leadership teams align around strategy?
The missing piece in strategy implementation is the connective tissue between the ideas at the top and the individuals across the business. Our narrative-based approach closes the gaps that cause strategy to fail.
Do you offer offsite facilitation?
Yes. We facilitate leadership discussions, workshops, planning sessions and strategy conversations as part of our offsite experiences. You’ll know best about the local logistics: give us a room and a screen and we’ll do the rest.
What's the difference between a leadership offsite and leadership training?
Leadership training develops individual capability. A leadership offsite focuses on team alignment, shared understanding and collective action. If you have the need, the ambition and the time we can help you do both.
How many people can attend a leadership offsite?
Our sessions work equally well for small executive teams and larger leadership groups.
Can leadership offsites support organisational change?
Absolutely. Many organisations engage us when they’re launching a transformation, communicating a new strategy or helping leaders navigate change. The offsite is only ever a stepping stone, though. It must be part of an ongoing process, otherwise all the energy created evaporates when it comes into contact with reality. Our approach is designed to avoid this familiar outcome.
