The retreat is ideal for managers, team leaders, executives, and anyone in a leadership role looking to improve their leadership skills and drive innovation within their teams.

A detailed schedule will be put together according to your needs and communicated in advance.

Activities will include workshop exercises, leadership exercises, group discussions, and team-building events according to your needs. Each activity is designed to foster collaboration, innovation, and leadership development.

Yes, the schedule includes some free time for relaxation, networking, and personal reflection.

The retreat, a place of tranquility and rejuvenation, will be held at a location that is meticulously chosen based on your specific needs and requirements.

 

We pride ourselves on our close partnerships with a select group of providers who offer exceptional venues. These venues are renowned for their conducive environments which seamlessly blend both learning and relaxation to create an experience that will invigorate your mind and calm your senses. Whether you require a serene lakeside lodge or a peaceful mountain retreat, just convey to us your preferences, your needs, and your desires.

 

Our dedicated team will then tirelessly work behind the scenes to ensure that we not only meet but exceed your expectations. We believe in the power of personalized experiences and we are committed to making your retreat a memorable one. Just express your needs and leave the rest to us, and we will make it happen.

The overall expense incurred for the retreat is contingent upon your specific requirements.

 

If you choose for the basic plan, it may only encompass the workshop.

 

However, a more comprehensive package could potentially provide a host of additional amenities. This might cover not just the workshop but also accommodation in comfortable and well-furnished rooms, diverse meals catering to different dietary preferences, necessary materials for the workshop to ensure a seamless learning experience, and a variety of engaging activities designed to facilitate relaxation and team-building.

We offer top-notch services for product strategy, design, innovation, workshop design and facilitation, as well as practical innovation training for businesses. We can help you build products or services based on real customer needs, enabling innovation-led growth. Our aim is to enable teams to achieve their best work without relying on luck or genius. We also offer consulting services to assist you in creating an MVP or implementing a new agile workflow. Furthermore, we will be your go-to consultant for any questions you have about completed workshops or training.

After our analysis conversation, we will create a detailed project plan that includes all the necessary steps. You will receive regular updates, and we will continuously coordinate to ensure that the result meets your expectations.

Open and transparent communication is essential to us. We use email, phone, Slack, Notion, and possibly video conferencing tools to regularly exchange information and keep you informed about the project’s progress.

We can make adjustments at any time, as long as they are within the scope of the original project. However, the extent to which we can make changes depends on the project. For significant modifications, we will discuss the impact on the schedule and costs.

Once the project is complete, we are available to answer any questions and provide support. Depending on the agreement, we may also offer creative direction, process support, workshop facilitation, or optimization services.

Our top priority is your satisfaction. If you are not happy with the results, we will work together to find a solution that best implements your ideas. However, we have never had an unsatisfied customer before.

Design Sprints and other Design Thinking related workshops are a wonderful, structured, human-centered approach used for practical and creative problem-solving. They can, however, go completely wrong if you don’t have the right experts around, who can guide you through challenging decisions and bring in their perspective. In order to assist you, we draw on decades of real-world experience in the fields of design, entrepreneurship, and strategy in both startups and large corporations. Because we’ve been there too, we can identify with your situation. We know and understand what you’re up against, and we’ll do everything we can to help you succeed, guaranteeing you real added value and the highest quality in every aspect.

Unorganized brainstorms tend to favor extroverts over introverts and to place importance on quantity over quality. In summary, they are an unsuitable choice for coming up with necessary solutions.

 

Below are the main reasons you should opt for the Design Sprint approach instead:

 

✅ In sprints, group and individual tasks can coexist peacefully and effectively. Structured, timed exercises promote a variety of perspectives and developed ideas (with distractions reduced to the barest minimum).

 

✅ You get a tangible and reproducible problem-solving process that you can use whenever you want to advance your business ideas.

 

✅ Obtaining authentic feedback from your target users allows you to advocate design based on data and not bias or intuition.

 

✅ Before investing a lot of time and money, you can secure buy-in from stakeholders right from the start.

 

✅ As a result, you will get a solution that has been prototyped and tested.

1. Working Together Alone (removing personal biases and levelling the playing field)

➡️ The group works in the same room, while each person has time and space to form their own individual ideas and thoughts.

 

☝️ Why? To equalize different personalities and levels of hierarchy.

 

2. Tangible (ideas) over Discussion

➡️ Instead of discussing and trying to convince others of our point of view, we let the ideas speak for themselves by writing, sketching or showing examples.

 

☝️ Why? To avoid different interpretations & misunderstandings.

 

3. Getting Started over Being Right

➡️ Rather than waiting until we all agree that everything is “perfect”, we make decisions, move forward, and test our hunches quickly.

 

☝️ Why? To break the cycle of decision paralysis & make some progress!

 

4. Don’t rely on creativity

➡️ Instead of expecting each person to “feel” creative at the right moment, we use the process to inspire, inform and prepare for idea generation.

 

☝️ Why? Because creativity is unpredictable.

Every company faces complicated times, big problems, or risky situations. Teams need to take important decisions and make alignment fast. As facilitation specialists, we are here to support you in an unbiased and structured manner. Using an external facilitator or consultant allows you to avoid potentially explosive situations and smoothly manage difficult personalities and emotions within a group. Please read our comprehensive article on why an external facilitator should run your next Design Sprint to learn more.

The core of all our workshops uses exercises from tried and tested Design Sprint method while adapting it to the specifics of each challenge. Besides the Design Sprint, we also do offer workshops for brainstorming, ideation, and problem-solving or even for marketing challenges. We recommend using our workshop methods anytime your team needs to make decisions, solve problems or discuss challenges fast + find quick direction. It will prevent your team from losing focus and replace your open, unstructured discussion with a simple process.

 

Here are some examples of workshops we frequently conduct for companies of all sizes.

 

🧩 For 1-3 day workshop formats, we offer:

 

↳ Scoping Workshop: A workshop to scope business challenges, define strategies for desired results, and align with stakeholders.

 

↳ Innovation Sprint: It quickly identifies the problem space, helping focus on the main challenge for your next innovation project.

 

↳ Growth Hacking Workshop: This workshop will guide your team in creating actionable growth hacking experiments in a structured manner.

 

↳ Marketing Campaign Sprint: For tasks such as crafting marketing strategies, promotional campaigns, and content ideas.

 

↳ OKR Sprint: This simple and effective OKR workshop will help your team gain clarity on which goals to focus on and how they will be measured.

 

↳ Challenge 360 Sprint: This helps a team align on exactly what to work on or solve, and what to ignore for now.

 

↳ Strategy Signal Sprint: This helps a team define an end goal and a straightforward strategy for solving a selected challenge.

 

↳ Plan-O-Rama: This helps a team execute their strategy.

 

↳ Decision Sprint: This is a general-purpose problem-solving and decision-making workshop that provides tangible, actionable results.

 

↳ Leadership & Executive Team Retreat: Enhance strategies, teamwork, and leadership skills in a focused workshop retreat that condenses planning into a few action-oriented days.

 

🧩 For 3-5 day workshop formats, we offer:

 

↳ Strategy Sprint: For leadership teams to design a successful strategy that positions their company advantageously.

 

↳ Product Strategy Sprint: Develop a coherent approach to product development, articulated in a Product Strategy with actionable steps.

 

↳ AI Design Sprint – Process Automation: Quickly identify easy-to-automate processes with AI and develop valuable team solutions.

 

↳ AI Design Sprint – Products & Services: Confidently infuse AI technology into business products or services for innovative and valuable solutions.

 

↳ Design Sprint: Before investing time and money, validate ideas and solve complex business issues as a team through prototyping and user testing.

 

and more.

Yes! Many top designers and consultancies around the world have adapted the time-boxed sprint model to special cases. Every situation that demands change can benefit from a tailor-made approach. All organizations, as well as us, have to deal with different situations. There are many different target groups, change requirements, possibilities, and so on. That is why we offer tailor-made workshops to respond to such individual situations and, of course, to keep our clients happy. So if you have a specific issue, we can tailor a workshop or training for your specific needs.