Think outside the box – How meeting with your team outside your office sparks creativity

Many times, employees and employers alike suffer from the lack of innovative ideas and are in need of some inspiration to get their minds going. This can be taken care of with the help of arrangements to meet outside of work where a new environment can help to bring in more creativity to everybody’s work. The following list of reasons will help you understand why meeting outside your office space can help to spark creativity and work better.

1. Increases Team Spirit

Be it an outing or an off-site meeting, either of these opportunities can be very helpful to your employees. Each member of the team can get inspired differently from the change in environment which will enable them to provide more distinct ideas. This is ensured when working outside the office is planned with the objective to boost creativity and possibly work on a particular issue that is yet to be resolved. 

Being outside the everyday environment helps you to get a variety of different perspectives on the topic that you discuss with the team. A creative approach to the problem will ensure that you find a solution that is thoroughly apt for it. This will in turn build on team engagement by involving each member in the task at hand. Furthermore, the collaboration spirit also flourishes with such engagement and makes the team work more efficiently and effectively back in the office as well.

2. Provides a New Environment

A change in surroundings helps your employees to be more productive in achieving tasks while delivering results of higher quality. A new environment gives your employees space to think differently. They can be inspired by all big and small aspects of the new surroundings – be it in the colors, the look or the mere travel that gets them there. This makes your employees look at the same idea at a different time and setting which is more useful to complete tasks efficiently. 

Unfamiliar settings with a breath of fresh air might be the very factor that unlocks the potentials of each and every one in your team. To try out the idea, book a meeting room outside your own company and engage your employees there. Or why not take everybody out of their daily routine by going to a co-working space at a different venue? The environment will provide you with all the amenities that are necessary for any office worker. This will also ensure that the space available is comfortable. Switch up the schedule by including fun activities that will stimulate everyone’s brains further. This stimulation activates multiple parts of the brain and increases blood flow which will internally enable them to perform better.

3. Gives a Break

For employees that are in need of a break from workloads, deadlines and other assignments, an outing is the perfect intervention. This can be in the form of a work dinner where everyone can unwind and enjoy or as a membership training session (MT). The latter involves making time for a small trip that can be as long as a day where games and activities are conducted in order for the team to better bond.

Team members familiarize themselves with each other’s strengths and work wise in achieving tasks together. A small time out of this session can be reserved for advising on strategies that will increase everyone’s creativity and ability to produce innovative ideas. This will give all employees a good break and invigorate them to be more productive in the future. 

This outside the box strategy may sound unorthodox at first, but in the end will enable your team members to work in a more creative, feasible and efficient manner. Adopt these interventions to get your team to give their best while refreshing their minds and rejuvenating themselves for many weeks to come.