Orientation Offsite

Your leadership team is carrying a lot: competing priorities, complex decisions, and a deep desire to lead well in a changing world. This two-day offsite is designed to give you a shared map of your organizational landscape—your current state, your options for moving forward, and a concrete path to start walking together.

We’ll combine hands-on simulations, guided reflection, and clear frameworks to help you cut through complexity and find clarity—fast.

Goal: Build a shared understanding of the key leverage points for change—across individuals, teams, and the whole organization.

You’ll experience and compare three powerful paradigms of organizational development: Agility, Lean, and New Work.

Each part combines immersive simulation, reflective debrief, clear conceptual framing, and contextual discussion.

We’ll visualize key principles and practices on the wall as we go—building a shared toolkit to draw from on Day 2.

Topics:

🔁 What is Agility and Scrum? (2h)

• Simulation: Ball Point Game
• Key concepts: Inspect & adapt, customer focus, iterative delivery, cross-functional teams
• Use when: Developing new products
• Planning approach: Flexible scope in fixed time
• Leverage point: Team level

⚙️ What is Lean and Kanban? (2h)

• Simulation: Lean Dot Game
• Key concepts: Theory of Constraints, visualizing work, limiting WIP, evolutionary change
• Use when: Optimizing existing processes
• Planning approach: Flow-based planning
• Leverage point: Team + organizational level

🧠 What is New Work? (2h)

• Simulation: Movers & Shapers
• Key concepts: Intrinsic motivation, self-organization, human-centeredness, psychological safety
• Use when: Boosting engagement, adaptability, and purpose
• Planning approach: Aligned autonomous goals
• Leverage point: Organizational + individual level

We’ll combine hands-on simulations, guided reflection, and clear frameworks to help you cut through complexity and find clarity—fast.

Goal: Align on where you are, where you want to go, and how to start moving.

You'll reflect individually and work collaboratively to map your current reality, define your desired future, and chart the steps to bridge the gap. Every insight from Day 1 becomes a lens to make sense of your own organization.

Topics:

🔍 Current State – Where are we today? (2h)

• Reflect individually, discuss in small groups
• Map your reality against the principles and practices from Day 1
• Identify pain points and hidden potential

🎯 Target State – Where should we be? (2h)

• Define what success looks like—for your culture, processes, and people
• Extend your map with your goals
• Align on shared aspirations and meaningful outcomes

🚀 Path – How do we get there? (3h)

• Break into small groups to design actionable next steps
• Present, discuss, and refine with feedback
• Walk away with clear commitments, owners, and timelines

This offsite is especially helpful when your leadership team is facing a key inflection point:

• Scaling a startup: You’re growing fast, and what worked before is starting to crack. You want to stay nimble without losing alignment or culture.
• Post-merger or re-org: You’ve just combined teams or functions and need a shared language, operating model, and sense of direction.
• New leadership team: You’ve brought in new people—or moved from founder-led to distributed leadership—and need to build common ground fast.
• Stalled transformation efforts: You’ve tried to change things, but nothing’s sticking. You want to reset with clarity and commitment.
• Preparing for a strategic shift: You’re entering a new market, launching a new product, or adapting to new constraints—and you want to lead the change, not chase it.

• Shared mental models for transformation
• A visual map of your current and target state
• A prioritized list of concrete next steps with clear ownership
• Renewed alignment, clarity, and motivation as a leadership team

Format: In-person offsite

Participants: Leadership team

Duration: 2 days

Cost: 5000€