Our client was the head of a capital markets group in the City. He understandably wanted an
enjoyable offsite but also an intellectual one where participants actually learned a lot.
The offsite involved over 100 members of the firm, senior and
junior, from all over the world, all of whom had to be engaged in activities
simultaneously.
Working closely with the training department, we put together a tailor made day
consisting of devising two exercises, our "games". The two games were completely
different and practised different skills en masse for the participants. The
games were fun but demanding and, an important element for all of our courses,
the participants had to spend very little time reading.
We enjoyed the day tremendously and the feedback we got indicated it was a huge
success, to many veteran offsite attendees’ surprise and delight. While one game
unearthed previously hidden qualities of negotiating and manoeuvring in amongst
our participants, the other seemed to bring out some very competitive traits and
creative thinking.
We were pleased to learn that the partners were still discussing tactics and
analysing how they should have acted in their teams some weeks later.
Thank you so much for your work in making our offsite such a success - everyone
commented on how well the sessions had gone and on how, while they enjoyed the
games, they also felt they had learned a great
deal.
Head of banking group, London