Dionne Jonker
If your team weekend feels like a mandatory number, you'd better skip it. No one gets wild anymore from a bungalow park with gourmet smells, a laughter yoga workshop or an endless meeting at the bar. Want to stir something up in your team? Then you have to go all-in. Out of the box. Maybe even a little over the top. Because it is precisely there, in that uncomfortable and unexpected, that connection is created. And no, you won't achieve that with a standard playbook from 2016.
Ready to shake things up?
A team weekend is not a checkmark on your to-do list. It's an opportunity to really connect people. And no, a standard escape room or pub quiz won't cut it. Doing something crazy, unexpected or completely 'crazy' together creates magic. Those moments that you are still laughing about at the coffee machine weeks later. That no one else understands, except you. And therein lies the power: that feeling of having experienced something special together.
A team weekend that touches people requires guts. For creativity and for a setting that shakes everything loose. Think: a pop-up camp in the middle of nature. A joint challenge in an old factory building. A "business ritual" on the beach to bury plans and plant new ideas. Sound crazy? Maybe. But guess what: therein lies the power. Stepping out of routine creates space for real connection. No plays, just people, together, in the moment.
A team weekend may be abrasive, surprising, confusing even. You may think as an organizer: oeh, dare we do this seriously? Indeed, if you think so, then you are right.
How about:
Your people are more critical than you think. They have already seen all kinds of things. They scroll their way through socials and see one trendy place after another passing by. So now when you arrive with an afternoon of raft building and a buffet at the nearest Van der Valk-restaurant, then you lose them. Because the bar is high. The good news? That you don't have to meet that bar alone.
That's where we step in.
We are GSE The Agency. And we don't organize team weekends. We create memories. Disruptive moments. Experiences that people keep talking about, on Monday, but also still at Christmas drinks. Together with you. Because you know your people, we know the possibilities. And they are endless. From Bali to Bilbao, from mountain hut to bunker. We mix your ideas with our creative madness, add some insights and build a weekend that is just right.
A organize team weekend is a chance to take a break from targets and to do's, and tune in to what matters. People, interrelationships and the why behind the work. It's okay to be a little crazy. In fact, it has to be a little crazy. Because you forget about boring weekends. A team weekend that is not only well organized, but also surprising, meaningful and unforgettable. Because that is where real connection is made.
Dionne Jonker
Project Manager
Stadionweg 11
AFAS Stadium (AZ)
1812 AZ Alkmaar
