What's up everyone, I'm Alex Lieberman, you know, this is Jesse Pooji, and this is the crazy ones.

What's up everyone, it's Jesse Pooji, your resident crazy one. I am doing a special bonus

episode while Alex is out of a question that we keep getting from the audience, which is,

how do you run a great offsite? So let me jump into that in just a second before I do that,

why do you run an offsite? If you're a CEO or a manager running a business, what's the point

of an offsite and what's what are you trying to accomplish with it? For me, I think of three really

critical things when I think about why you run an offsite. Number one is setting direction.

Number two is alignment, and number three is connection. So let's take each of those briefly.

Number one, setting direction. You as a leader want to be clear about where you're going,

and you've decided and want to share that out. It's critical to get the team to understand that,

which brings us to alignment. Alignment doesn't just mean they all come in and agree. It means they

actually tell you why they disagree what you're missing, and you bring that all together into one single

plan. And then third and most important, last but not least, is connection. And this is where you

get to know each other as people, you get to laugh together, you share some intimate moments,

and that's a critical part of running an offsite and having a successful team dynamic.

So how do you run it? Let's go through Jesse's method for doing it. So there's a few sessions

I think are critical from a strategic perspective to run for a well run offsite.

It all starts with reflection, getting everyone together and asking, what did we do great last year?

What do we not do so great last year? What's critical to get right this year? And what do we want

for this year? Hand full of questions like that. Sometimes I call it accounting and response.

Did we do what we say we would do? Did it work? If it did, great. Let's do more of it. If it didn't,

let's do less of it. That's the first session of reflection. The second section is what I call

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