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Ideas for better company events

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Why summer is actually a good time to run a team event

Summer is when calendars thin out and energy drops. It's also one of the best windows in the year to run a high-impact team event — if you design it right.

Eraldo Federico Acchiappati
Eraldo · 1 July 2026
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How to choose an innovation workshop provider (and what to ask them)

Every provider will tell you they run great workshops. Here are the questions that separate the ones who do from the ones who don't.

Giovanni Binello
Giovanni · 18 June 2026
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How to run a workshop when the room has both junior staff and senior leaders

When a room contains both junior analysts and senior directors, the power dynamic shapes everything. Here's how to design a session where everyone actually contributes.

Eraldo Federico Acchiappati
Eraldo · 10 June 2026
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How to run a customer co-creation workshop

Most companies build products without their customers in the room. Co-creation workshops change that — and the insights they surface are ones no survey would catch.

Giovanni Binello
Giovanni · 3 June 2026
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How to choose the right venue for your corporate workshop

The venue is not the workshop. But the wrong one can undo it. Here's how to choose a space that supports the work — not just the photos.

Giovanni Binello
Giovanni · 12 May 2026
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What to do with hackathon ideas after the event

The hackathon is over. The energy was real. Now comes the harder part: turning the best ideas into something your company will actually act on.

Eraldo Federico Acchiappati
Eraldo · 5 May 2026
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How to get leadership buy-in for an innovation initiative

Innovation initiatives stall at the leadership level more often than at the idea level. Here's how to make the case in language that gets a yes.

Giovanni Binello
Giovanni · 28 April 2026
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The facilitation mistakes that drain workshop energy

Most workshops fail in the first hour. Usually it's not the content — it's the facilitation choices nobody thought to question.

Eraldo Federico Acchiappati
Eraldo · 21 April 2026
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How to brief your facilitator before a workshop

A good facilitator can only work with the information you give them. Most companies hand over a one-line brief and expect a great session. Here's what actually needs to be in it.

Giovanni Binello
Giovanni · 17 April 2026
Team sustaining innovation culture through ongoing collaboration
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What companies that sustain innovation actually do differently

Running a hackathon is easy. Getting anything useful out of it three months later is the hard part.

Eraldo Federico Acchiappati
Eraldo · 14 April 2026
Distributed team participating in a remote innovation workshop
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Running an innovation workshop with a distributed team

Remote workshops don't fail because of the technology. They fail because the format wasn't designed for distance.

Giovanni Binello
Giovanni · 11 April 2026
Teams choosing between different workshop formats
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Hackathon, sprint, or off-site: which format does your team actually need?

The three are often treated as interchangeable. They're not. Each solves a different problem, and choosing the wrong one wastes everyone's time.

Eraldo Federico Acchiappati
Eraldo · 8 April 2026
Team working through an AI strategy workshop
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How to run an AI strategy workshop that isn't a waste of time

Every company wants an AI strategy. Most approach it with a town hall and a consultant deck. Neither produces decisions.

Giovanni Binello
Giovanni · 5 April 2026
Teams working together at an annual company event
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How to plan an annual company event people actually look forward to

The annual company event has a reputation problem. Here's how to move from passive presentations to something people genuinely remember.

Giovanni Binello
Giovanni · 30 March 2026
Leadership team during a strategy retreat
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What makes a leadership retreat worth the time and budget

Leadership retreats are expensive in every sense. To justify them, they need to produce something that couldn't happen any other way. Most don't.

Eraldo Federico Acchiappati
Eraldo · 30 March 2026
Team running an innovation sprint session
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What is an innovation sprint (and when should your team run one)?

A sprint applies time pressure to a business challenge. Done right, it moves faster than months of committee deliberation.

Giovanni Binello
Giovanni · 30 March 2026
Two teams collaborating during a post-merger workshop
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Running an innovation workshop during post-merger integration

Mergers create pressure. An innovation workshop won't solve one — but it can accelerate the part that matters most: getting people to build something together.

Eraldo Federico Acchiappati
Eraldo · 29 March 2026
Team working through a design thinking workshop
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Design thinking for teams: a practical guide

Design thinking often ends up as a mood board session. Here's how to run it as the structured problem-solving method it was meant to be.

Giovanni Binello
Giovanni · 28 March 2026
Team reviewing outcomes from an innovation event
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How to measure the ROI of a company off-site

Companies spend real money on off-sites and workshops. Leadership asks for ROI. Here's a more honest framework than satisfaction surveys.

Eraldo Federico Acchiappati
Eraldo · 27 March 2026
Team working together at a corporate hackathon
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How to run a corporate hackathon that actually delivers

Most corporate hackathons end with a pitch deck and a round of applause. Here's how to make yours end with something your team will actually use.

Giovanni Binello
Giovanni · 25 March 2026
Innovation workshop and corporate event in Luxembourg
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7 corporate event ideas that work in Luxembourg

Luxembourg is a small country with an outsized number of options for meaningful company events. Here's what works — and when.

Eraldo Federico Acchiappati
Eraldo · 24 March 2026
Team at a corporate off-site event
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Why your team off-site isn't working (and what to do instead)

You've run the off-site. You've done the dinner. Everyone said it was great. So why does nothing change when you get back to the office?

Eraldo Federico Acchiappati
Eraldo · 22 March 2026
Facilitator leading an innovation workshop
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What makes a great innovation workshop facilitator

You can have the right room, the right people, the right challenge — and still walk away with nothing useful. More often than not, the variable is facilitation.

Giovanni Binello
Giovanni · 20 March 2026

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