8.0: Closing Discussion

Project: Team Offsite. You are planning a 2-day offsite with your direct reports (as well as internal and external partners if appropriate) to be held in the next six months. You have a good team, but some people work more as individuals than members of a team. Some could also do a better job of helping others than they do currently.

Outline the agenda for your team offsite. Estimate the budget required and request approval to conduct the offsite meeting. Your goals in the offsite meeting are to:

1. Increase collaboration between your team members
2. Share best practices and/or increase the team’s knowledge in some subject-matter area(s)
3. Get some “real work” done such as brainstorm how to improve something or conduct team information exchanges

Offsite agenda:

Estimated costs:

Project: Collaboration. Identify either a person with whom you want to improve collaboration or specific collaboration best practices you want to work on.

Answer this question by completing the Partnerships Post Course Project Worksheet located in the Materials tab at the top of this page. Upon completing the worksheet, save the results to a file on your desktop for uploading.