At Doist, everyone has the opportunity to meet with teammates in real life twice a year: once for a company-wide retreat of our ~100 employees and once for a mini-retreat with their immediate team. As I was designing our retreat strategy, I wanted to answer this question definitively: how do you create an agenda that maximizes the return on our in-person time together?
In this talk we’ll cover the importance of team retreats, policies, budgeting, location-picking, communication, the 20/30/50 rule, and how to measure success.
If we’re going to ask people to travel across the world for a week and leave their personal lives behind, we want it to be convenient, enjoyable, and fulfilling for them – hopefully these structures are helping on that front.
