Producing a Successful Offsite Part 4/6: Warm Their Engines BEFORE They Arrive
Vayomar team | 4 minutes Welcome to part 4 of Vayomar’s 6-part series on designing a winning company event. In previous posts, we reviewed the importance of clearly defining your offsite’s ROI, having a defining theme and leveraging the power of total immersion. Today, we will review the value of conducting pre-offsite activities that allow you to hit the ground […]
Producing a Successful Offsite Part 3/6: It’s Called an OFFsite For a Reason
Vayomar team | 5 minutes In the previous two posts of this series, we reviewed the importance of clearly defining your offsite’s ROI and of having a defining theme. The next step is using that theme to fully squeeze the value out of your offsite’s venue. At Vayomar, we like to call this step total immersion. This component is […]
THE NEURONS THAT SHAPED CIVILIZATION
Having taught the importance of empathy as a psychological dynamic for so many years, I was blown away to discover that we are in fact “wired” for it. Powerful.
Producing a Successful Offsite Part 2/6: Does Your Next Offsite Have a Theme? It Should!
Vayomar team | 6 minutes Last time, we introduced the six guiding principles to creating winning, productivity-inducing offsites for your organization. In case you missed the post, click here to read it now. Today, we’re delving straight into the second of these principles – the theme. Now that the first component, the budget, has been […]
Producing a Successful Offsite Part 1/6: It’s All About the ROI
Vayomar team | 6 minutes Executive retreats, also known as “offsites,” whisk a group of employees or senior managers away from their office environment, most commonly for 1-3 days, to enable them to experience “deep” and intensive processes that help them return to work rested and charged to drive business goals forward. These processes take […]
HOW TO START A MOVEMENT | DEREK SIVERS
Most of us see leadership as being the first. What I found so interesting about this talk is the introduction of another form of leadership – the importance of enabling and empowering leadership. After watching this video, see if you can find opportunities in your working environment for that second person.
FEYNMAN: KNOWING VERSUS UNDERSTANDING
A beautiful explanation by the brilliant Nobel Prize laureate Richard Feynman about the importance of the teacher addressing their audience’s ability to understand. Indeed, when we face an audience, we must remember that we are not doing so because we are experts in the field we plan on discussing with them but rather because […]
8 LESSONS ON BUILDING A COMPANY PEOPLE ENJOY WORKING FOR
Patty McCord served as chief talent officer of Netflix for 14 years and helped create the Netflix Culture Deck. Since it was first posted on the web, the Culture Deck has been viewed more than 15 million times, and Sheryl Sandberg has said that it “may be the most important document ever to come out […]
SUGATA MITRA: BUILD A SCHOOL IN THE CLOUD
Aside from my deep passion for education (I see myself as a teacher above all else), I strongly recommend having your team (especially your management team) watch this talk because it introduces a new way of thinking. It presents a question that challenges multi-generational paradigms. This is not just brave – it’s crucial. The world […]
JOHN CLEESE ON CREATIVITY
So much of what makes us “tick” is counter intuitive, directly opposed to our natural instinct. A wonderfully eloquent and well delivered talk about why we MUST allow for humor and play to be core components of our decision making and problem solving processes, or better yet – part of our very organizational culture.
