Example Quest: An Offsite for a new CEO and their Leadership Team
Strengthening Leadership Cohesion: A Leaders’ Quest Offsite
Leaders’ Quest recently ran an offsite event for a global manufacturing company, bringing together its executive team and new CEO for the first time. Over three days in the company’s home city, we helped 17 leaders strengthen cohesion, connectivity, and trust. The work focused on aligning the team around the new CEO’s strategy, exploring untapped commercial opportunities, and mapping a fresh path to industry leadership in sustainability.
Highlights
- Generative Conversations
We led sessions to enhance empathy, practice deep listening, and transform conflict into productive momentum. A major goal was to improve team communication, with exercises centered on confronting biases and assumptions. Participants examined live cases from their own experience, and practiced shifting these challenges into courageous conversations.
- Quests
Immersive experiences with changemakers, tailored to the client’s ambitions, enabling the group to gain insights and inspiration.
Highlights included:
- Purposeful Vision: Visiting a mission-driven organization disrupting the food packaging industry with fully compostable solutions, we explored how zeal and motivation can bring a vision to life. We discussed how to similarly inspire the company’s sustainability goals.
- Leading Through Times of Conflict: At a Presidential Library, we talked about how political leaders evolved organizations, tackled global conflict, and advanced democracy, while staying true to founding values. We brought this back to the role of the company’s own founding values.
- Resilience and Courage: At a nonprofit supporting those who have been sexually exploited, leaders met with the CEO and residents to discuss resilience, courage, and trust during adversity.
- Radical Collaboration: Meeting with a local organization’s leadership team, we learned about the power of steadfast commitment and collaboration across diverse communities to improve equity and health outcomes.
- Active Workshops
- Photography: An exercise in sharing personal stories and getting to know colleagues better. Participants captured team members’ essence through a new lens.
- Energy assessment: The group learned to be more aware of their personal energy, manage wellbeing, achieve peak performance, and support their teams in doing the same.
- New York Ballet: A discussion with a professional ballet dancer highlighted the parallels between peak performance in dance and in leadership, exploring the importance of physical and mental endurance, strength, and flexibility.
Outcomes
- Building alignment around the new CEO’s strategic vision.
- Fostering trust within the executive leadership team.
- Helping leaders discover their edge, sharpen skills, and embed new behaviors.
- Creating a high-performing team in tune with organizational values and ambitions.
Discover More About Quests
At Leaders’ Quest, we believe in the power of experiential learning to build skills, shift perspectives, and create the conditions for change. For over 20 years, we’ve delivered Quests around the world to some of the world’s most successful and purposeful companies.
Talk to us about how a Quest could help your leadership team.
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