How to Fix Team Productivity With Strategic Events

People think that remote, hybrid, or even distributed teams cost less and work more. 

But there’s a hidden cost: productivity starts slipping through the cracks. 

It doesn’t have to be that way.

In this edition of The Gathering Ground, we’ll cover how you can dream up an event that does more than get people together — it propels your big-picture strategy.

Our Itinerary

🔧 Fixing Your Productivity Drain 

🚀 Workgrounds Product Update

🤿 Diving Into the Web

🧠 Your Deepest Process Desire

Making Events Productive

So how do you prime an event to be productive? CPOHQ Chief People Officer Meagan Soszynski created the MATCH framework — it’s her way to make sure that at your gatherings, stuff gets done.

M - Measure Your Team's Current Productivity

Before planning any gathering, track how your team performs day-to-day and see where productivity gaps exist. 

A - Align Gatherings with Strategic Business Impact

Not every team needs to meet the same amount — prioritize based on their overall impact on the business. 

T - Time Events to Business Milestones

Strategic gatherings should happen when your business needs them most, not when the timing’s convenient. 

C - Craft Purposeful Gathering Experiences

You can structure focused work sessions with laptop-free deep thinking time, but make sure to build in breaks for people to handle urgent work. 

H - Hold Teams Accountable for Outcomes

Teams have to present their collaborative work and plans to stakeholders — that will put pressure on them to generate real solutions during the event, and follow through afterward.

In-person collaboration is so valuable; you can’t waste it. Some simple face-to-face, planned-out conversations can make your business thrive.

To get a full look at Meagan’s strategy, read her playbook: https://www.workgrounds.com/blog/the-match-framework

What’s new in Workgrounds Product

You can now indicate in an instant alternative dates in your hotel RFP’s increasing chances of availability and improved rate for your group.

👉️ Check out more details on our new alternative dates feature and other updates

Points of Link-terest

A quick tour across the internet.

• Check out Booking’s recent Global AI Sentiment Report & Survey to see where people are landing on the preference spectrum of autonomous → assistant → not at all in their travel planning process.

• Time Out has some ideas for NYC-based team-building events.

Onward!

Well, we’re taking off.

Keep your seatbelts buckled, and we’ll see you soon. 

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