Making Off-Site Leadership Retreats Effective

When times get tough, many organizations get budget-conscious by reducing the number of staff and executive-related meetings they hold off-site. This year, says Bob Frisch, managing partner of The Strategic Offsites Group, Boston, more organizations are looking at their entire calendar of meetings for the year and rethinking aspects like the sequence of events, who comes to each meeting, and the agenda items, rather than just cutting certain meetings out of the budget. “People are