How to Make the Most of an Offsite

Published on 7 Jul 2015 . 3 min read

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A lot of companies and MNCs plan short trips for their entire staff at least once a year. Big banks like BNP Paribas to law firms like ALMT legal are known to host regular off-site trips or outings. The main goal of office offsite trips is to promote an element of team bonding.

When you enter the corporate world, you have to prepare for an office offsite too. Here are a ways you can prepare –

Enjoy the outdoors

Offsite is your break from everyday madness, it can be rejuvenating to be on trip with people you spend your entire day with. Enjoy the nature, involve yourself in everything and relax. A lot of you are probably getting a chance to go out after long, make the most of it.

Know your peers

Rupa Iyer, working in the Telecommunication Industry says – when I went on my first office offsite trip, I hardly spoke to anyone. But I later realized that this trip would have been the best way to connect with others because at the workplace, how often can you actually talk to everyone casually?

An offsite trip is the best place to network with other people in your company. Don’t just be restricted to the team you work with at the office. Branch out, introduce yourself and get to know the others.

Pitch in

The company is most likely going to arrange different kinds of activities, games and presentations too, to make most of this trip. The offsite trip is the last place people should start forming opinions about you. Try to participate in all the activities or training sessions, depending on what the office is organising during the trip. By keeping an open mind, you’ll learn a lot more and benefit too.

Showcase your Talent

If you have a good voice and can sing well, or if you have a knack for telling jokes then share these talents over mealtimes during the trip. Allow other people to see another side of you, a side that they won’t see at work.

Ria who just completed a year at her first job, liked singing but was always scared of singing in front of others. When I was forced to sing at the office offsite trip, it was actually a good thing. Everyone looked at me with more respect!

Have Fun!

Have fun! Talk, laugh, share tales of joy and learn from the experience. This is one of the best places to get to know the company you work for and everyone across the hierarchy!