There are Management Team agenda items that simply require the MT to be more than fully devoted to the discussion of its content and implications, ensuring all attention, energy and creativity is applied. For that reason, going ‘off-site’ is often a preferable alternative to the company’s own meeting rooms. TtU believes that choosing the right venue, creating the correct agenda, and building in time dedicated to ‘play’ are the finishing touches many off-sites lack. We’d be delighted to help get the most out of your off-sites.

In today’s age of ever-present multimedia, people are hardly ever truly away from their day-to-day concerns. As a result, minds are very rarely focussed on issues for long, or indeed for long enough. It is for that reason that when going off-site, one should really consider not just being ‘out-of-sight’ but also being ‘out of reach’. That doesn’t mean a total lack of information on what is going on outside (there are simple ways to manage that), but there should certainly be some significant quality discussion time.

And what better place to have such quality time than a nice and inspiring environment. So forget those faceless motorway junction hotels, inner-city, inner-building concrete cells, etc., and get together somewhere really special. And ‘somewhere really special’ is by no means also always ‘somewhere really expensive’!