Design Thinking On The Beach

HOW WE SOLVED A REAL WORLD CHALLENGE AT A COMPANY OFFSITE

Veronika Janeckova
5 min readMay 15, 2018

Company offsite. The idea of a week spent working from a beach house sounds more than appealing. But before you swap your boardroom for an ocean view in a hope that your team will produce magic over pitchers of sangria, you might want to consider the following. Company offsite is a very real investment opportunity. It’s capable of generating more value and impact than the whole year of working around the clock, when done right. The trick is to turn the distraction-free, focused time of your team into the best innovating, creating and learning exercise of your life — while having fun. All you need is to equip yourself with the right set of tools and a few how to’s. There is a getaway. And then, there is a getaway with a purpose.

We’d like to share a case study about supercharging a business opportunity for our client — combining powerful techniques, facilitation and inspiring environment — and tell you how you can do it too, in only 5 steps.

Defining the challenge

Only a few months ago, we run our pilot retreat program inviting a handful of businesses to join for free. On top of building BizTreat’s proof of concept we had the privilege of hosting a variety of global companies. Having been thrilled about running the pilot in our home location Siargao island, we decided to tackle one of the local business challenges — a fundraiser for Filipino surfers to help them compete in…

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Veronika Janeckova
Veronika Janeckova

Written by Veronika Janeckova

Founder of BizTreat & Burnout Heroes.

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