Are your team gatherings creating meaningful change or just filling calendar space?
Are your team gatherings creating meaningful change or just filling calendar space?
Are your team gatherings creating meaningful change or just filling calendar space?
Whether you're planning a team offsite, leadership retreat, or workshop – you've likely experienced the gap between what these events promise and what they actually deliver.
Whether you're planning a team offsite, leadership retreat, or workshop – you've likely experienced the gap between what these events promise and what they actually deliver.
Whether you're planning a team offsite, leadership retreat, or workshop – you've likely experienced the gap between what these events promise and what they actually deliver.
Even well-run sessions often fail to create the sustained momentum most organisations and leadership teams are seeking.
Even well-run sessions often fail to create the sustained momentum most organisations and leadership teams are seeking.
Even well-run sessions often fail to create the sustained momentum most organisations and leadership teams are seeking.
Signs that your team events and retreats need a thoughtful redesign:
Signs that your team events and retreats need a thoughtful redesign:
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Conversations stay surface-level while the real challenges go unaddressed
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Conversations stay surface-level while the real challenges go unaddressed
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Conversations stay surface-level while the real challenges go unaddressed
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The same issues reappear despite multiple attempts at resolution
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The same issues reappear despite multiple attempts at resolution
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The same issues reappear despite multiple attempts at resolution
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Initial enthusiasm drains away once everyone returns to their daily work
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Initial enthusiasm drains away once everyone returns to their daily work
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Initial enthusiasm drains away once everyone returns to their daily work
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Powerful insights emerge but rarely transform into meaningful action
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Powerful insights emerge but rarely transform into meaningful action
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Powerful insights emerge but rarely transform into meaningful action
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Team members approach these events with resignation rather than anticipation
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Team members approach these events with resignation rather than anticipation
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Team members approach these events with resignation rather than anticipation
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Beneath the polite exchanges, genuine tensions remain frozen in place
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Beneath the polite exchanges, genuine tensions remain frozen in place
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Beneath the polite exchanges, genuine tensions remain frozen in place
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Some voices consistently dominate while others never get heard
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Some voices consistently dominate while others never get heard
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Decisions get made without the commitment needed to execute them
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Decisions get made without the commitment needed to execute them
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Decisions get made without the commitment needed to execute them
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The investment of time and resources yields disappointingly modest returns
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The investment of time and resources yields disappointingly modest returns
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The investment of time and resources yields disappointingly modest returns
The problem isn't the events themselves.
The problem isn't the events themselves.
It's that most lack the strategic design and skilled facilitation needed to turn good intentions into lasting change.
At Happy Daruma, I've developed an approach that transforms these dynamics into opportunities for genuine connection and forward momentum.
Together, we design experiences that energise your team, create safety for honest conversation, and turn your offsites and retreats into catalysts for meaningful transformation – both during the event and long after.
Let's explore the possibilities:
Let's explore the possibilities:
Leadership Team Experiences
Strategic Alignment
Executive Coaching
Team Development
New Leaders
Google's Search Inside Yourself Programme
Leadership Team Experiences
Strategic Alignment
Executive Coaching
Team Development
New Leaders
Google's Search Inside Yourself Programme
Leadership Team Experiences
Strategic Alignment
Executive Coaching
Team Development
New Leaders
Google's Search Inside Yourself Programme
Full Team Engagement
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Team Retreats & Offsites
Effective Communication & Conflict Resolution
Team Effectiveness
Full Team Engagement
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Team Retreats & Offsites
Effective Communication & Conflict Resolution
Team Effectiveness
Full Team Engagement
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Team Retreats & Offsites
Effective Communication & Conflict Resolution
Team Effectiveness
Keynotes & Learning Experiences
Resilience & Self-Leadership
Mindfulness at Work
Focus & Prioritisation
Interactive Learning Journeys
Keynotes & Learning Experiences
Resilience & Self-Leadership
Mindfulness at Work
Focus & Prioritisation
Interactive Learning Journeys
Keynotes & Learning Experiences
Resilience & Self-Leadership
Mindfulness at Work
Focus & Prioritisation
Interactive Learning Journeys
Our Journey Together
Our Journey Together
Every team's path is unique, but here's a glimpse into how we might collaborate on transformative experiences. This roadmap provides an overview of a typical facilitation engagement:
Every team's path is unique, but here's a glimpse into how we might collaborate on transformative experiences. This roadmap provides an overview of a typical facilitation engagement:
Discovery and Analysis
In-depth conversations with key stakeholders, team assessment, and goal clarification
The Experience
Expertly facilitated sessions that balance structure with spontaneity, deep work with energy management, and challenge with support
Follow-up Support
Check-in touchpoints, progress tracking, potential micro-interventions, and reinforcement of key insights long after the facilitated experience
Discovery and Analysis
In-depth problem analysis, data review & audit, goal setting, and stakeholder interviews
Discovery and Analysis
In-depth conversations with key stakeholders, team assessment, and goal clarification
Discovery and Analysis
In-depth conversations with key stakeholders, team assessment, and goal clarification
Implementation Kickoff
Achieving first milestones, data review & potential goal refinement, and full strategy rollout
Pre-work & Preparation
Participant surveys, strategic pre-reading or exercises, and custom experience design
Pre-work & Preparation
Participant surveys, strategic pre-reading or exercises, and custom experience design
Deep Dive and Long-term Focus
Addressing remaining foundational issues and emphasizing sustainable implementation
The Experience
Expertly facilitated sessions that balance structure with spontaneity, deep work with energy management, and challenge with support
The Experience
Expertly facilitated sessions that balance structure with spontaneity, deep work with energy management, and challenge with support
Future-proofing
Conducting a "post-mortem", and establishing a future roadmap for maintaining new practices independently
Immediate Integration
Capturing insights, defining clear next steps, assigning accountability, and establishing follow-through mechanisms
Immediate Integration
Capturing insights, defining clear next steps, assigning accountability, and establishing follow-through mechanisms
Strategy Development
Roadmap creation, goal alignment, and initial interventions (workshops, coaching, work sessions, first sprint)
Follow-up Support
Check-in touchpoints, progress tracking, potential micro-interventions, and reinforcement of key insights long after the facilitated experience
Follow-up Support
Check-in touchpoints, progress tracking, potential micro-interventions, and reinforcement of key insights long after the facilitated experience
Progress Review and Adjustment
Feedback collection, potential strategy adjustment, and closer collaboration
Impact Assessment
Measuring tangible and intangible outcomes, gathering participant feedback, and documenting the journey
Impact Assessment
Measuring tangible and intangible outcomes, gathering participant feedback, and documenting the journey
Pre-work & Preparation
Participant surveys, strategic pre-reading or exercises, and custom experience design
Immediate Integration
Capturing insights, defining clear next steps, assigning accountability, and establishing follow-through mechanisms
Impact Assessment
Measuring tangible and intangible outcomes, gathering participant feedback, and documenting the journey
The Happy Daruma Effect
The Happy Daruma Effect
Teams that communicate with clarity and compassion, make decisions with confidence, navigate change with resilience, and collaborate with genuine enjoyment
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Let's create an experience that matters.
Let's create an experience that matters.
Whether you have a specific offsite in mind or are just beginning to think about bringing your team together – I'd love to hear what you're hoping to achieve.
Your journey to more meaningful work begins with a conversation.👇🏻
Whether you have a specific offsite in mind or are just beginning to think about bringing your team together – I'd love to hear what you're hoping to achieve.
Your journey to more meaningful work begins with a conversation.👇🏻