Team Away Days

Team Away Days are an effective tool that can be utilised for a number of different business purposes. Whether your objective is team building, training, or strategy development, our qualified Territory based facilitators can plan a day away from the office that will help you reach your business goals and team based objectives.

Avant Team Away Days are suitable for businesses of any size that are seeking to improve team communication, motivate employees and increase morale. We cater for teams of any size and will help you to find the perfect location for the day, whether that’s in the Territory, interstate or overseas.

Your Objectives and Outcomes

Traditionally Team Away Days have focused on building teams through enhancing trust and improving relationships, although these are important results our Team Away Days can accomplish a lot more. Through careful planning and collaboration with our facilitators any number of business outcomes can be achieved, including:

• strategic planning
• preparation of company vision, mission and values
• preparation of business / marketing plans
• improving communication and enhancing leaderships skills
• project and bid team coaching
• increasing productivity
• sensitive issue management
• understanding and managing team dynamics.

External Facilitation and Off-site Location

Experience shows that using a skilled external facilitator in an off-site location provides for more effective outcomes than managing team days internally. An external facilitator is able to bring structure to the process, challenge internal assumptions, help steer group discussion towards the required topic / outcomes, break down organisational barriers and paradigms, encourage participation, promote thinking outside the square and help to generate ownership of shared values, beliefs and purpose.

The removal of work related distractions through running the Team Away Day at an offsite location allows for greater concentration and focus on the task at hand. We will find the perfect location for your Team Away Day and work with you to achieve the required outcomes.

Follow Up Support

Working in collaboration with you, we are able to provide tailored support and follow up reports that will help to reinforce the message and outcomes of your Team Away Day.

This information may include:

• key recommendations report and calendar that comprises an implementation plan for your team’s action and follow up list
• detailed event evaluation and participant feedback data. This information is transferred into an easily read format providing a snapshot of the outcomes achieved and perceived effectiveness from the participants’ perspective
• access to the facilitator for related questions / queries.

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Testimonial

Jessica L Baker – KPMG – Manager - January 2011

When it comes to planning and managing (pre and post event) corporate team away and team building days, Avant sets a very high standard.

The KPMG Darwin Team Away Day had a strategic focus. The brief was simple - help the team to further develop our corporate vision. The event planning and delivery was excellent, Alison created an inclusive program that allowed our large team (40+) to build, share and communicate a business vision. The program was very smart and people focused, and it made our staff think about how they fit into the business, what their responsibilities are and how they can help with the big picture plan. A major benefit of the day was that through a process of two way communication, team building and individual goal setting, the whole partnership is now held accountable for delivering on the agreed outcomes and action plans of the day. The feedback from the team was excellent, with the day mostly being described as FUN!

At the end of the day, our team walked away feeling like part of a bigger picture, part of a family, it was a real bonding experience that signalled a major shift in group dynamics and how we operate as a team. It is a day that we all have fond memories of and one that is going to take some beating. We are already starting to think about the next one...Thanks Avant!!