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A start-up retreat will give you the chance to block out an extended amount of time to build the foundations of your new business or regroup and take it to the next level.
Consider the following cases: Sarah has had an idea in her head for a long time. She has talked about it for ages and it has always seemed like some what of a pipe dream. However, this year she wants to make this dream a reality. Sarah has even convinced like-minded Magnus and Jenny to join her business venture and they are all excited about the prospects of the future. However, Sarah and her team all work full time and while they are unfulfilled in their day-to-day, these jobs pay the bills and they are all finding it difficult to organise blocks of time to bring this idea to fruition. Dillan, Cara and John have started their new tech company and it has evolved faster and better than they could have imagined. In the first year they have grown exponentially, bringing in new clients and even hiring more staff. When they started out on this venture, they expected to grow eventually but were not prepared for what has come their way and now need to catpure what is working and keep the growth going. Can you relate? Are you looking to start a business and can't find the time to build it? Or are you in the middle of it and needing to regroup and prepare for the next part of the journey? Many great ideas simply remain pipleine dreams, and never make it to the start-up phase. And the truth is, many of those that do start-up actually end up failing because of internal flaws, which Jamie Pride writes about in their book, Unicorn tears: Why startups fail and how to avoid it. It is critical that business dreamers and business owners take the time to ensure that their business is prepared to succeed. With appropriate planning you can ensure that your business avoids becoming another statistic of start-up failures. A retreat is the perfect opportunity to come together no matter where you are on your business journey. The programme can include a range of activities from identifying your business goals, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of your team, creating plans for market analysis, to financial forecasting and preparing a business strategy or marketing plan. When you book a Start-up In Scotland Retreat, our team will discuss your goals and work with you to create a custom programme that will help focus your team to be able to achieve that next business milestone. Pride, J., 2018. Unicorn tears: Why startups fail and how to avoid it. John Wiley & Sons.
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Do you want to increase your publication output? Researchers have identified 5 central measurable links to how going on a writing retreat can boost publication productivity. Protected time and space Community of Practice Develop academic writing competence Intrapersonal Benefits Organisational Investment  Rachel Kornhaber, Merylin Cross, Vasiliki Betihavas & Heather Bridgman (2016) The benefits and challenges of academic writing retreats: an integrative review, Higher Education Research & Development, 35:6, 1210-1227, DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2016.1144572
The information from this post comes directly from Kornhaber, Cross, Betihavas and Bridgman (2016) who shared the benefits of academic writing retreats by conducting an integrative review of academic literature. The full article can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07294360.2016.1144572
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