Episode 275: How Team Work & Play Drive Innovation (Lessons From Our Offsite)
When Phil Knight created a little shoe start-up called “Blue Ribbon,” now known as Nike, we forget that Nike was not the behemoth success we know today. Nike then was a scrappy, hungry, fiercely competitive underdog who clawed its way through a heavily competitive landscape to dominate in a way that was creative, energetic, and, even … playful.
In this spirit, at commonsku, we recently hosted a company retreat, but “retreat” is not the right word; it was a combination of competition, collaborative brainstorming, a values-building, peer-to-peer gathering experience …. We learned a lot. About how to bring your team together in a way that fosters ingenuity, about how to spark the most progressive ideas to help our customers, and it included our own hackathon, values exercises, and even play.
And as we often like to do with something we learn, we want to share our experience with you. Perhaps you are planning an off-site or brainstorming session with your team, if so, we hope this episode is helpful to you!