6 min readHow to structure a two-day innovation retreatTwo days is enough time to think, build, and decide. Most two-day retreats waste the second day recovering from the first one. Here's how to avoid it.Giovanni · 8 July 2026
5 min readWhy summer is actually a good time to run a team eventSummer 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 · 1 July 2026
5 min readHow 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 · 18 June 2026
5 min readHow to run a workshop when the room has both junior staff and senior leadersWhen 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 · 10 June 2026
5 min readHow to run a customer co-creation workshopMost 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 · 3 June 2026
5 min readHow to choose the right venue for your corporate workshopThe 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 · 12 May 2026
5 min readWhat to do with hackathon ideas after the eventThe 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 · 5 May 2026
5 min readHow to get leadership buy-in for an innovation initiativeInnovation 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 · 28 April 2026
5 min readThe facilitation mistakes that drain workshop energyMost workshops fail in the first hour. Usually it's not the content — it's the facilitation choices nobody thought to question.Eraldo · 21 April 2026
5 min readHow to brief your facilitator before a workshopA 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 · 17 April 2026
5 min readWhat companies that sustain innovation actually do differentlyRunning a hackathon is easy. Getting anything useful out of it three months later is the hard part.Eraldo · 14 April 2026
5 min readRunning an innovation workshop with a distributed teamRemote workshops don't fail because of the technology. They fail because the format wasn't designed for distance.Giovanni · 11 April 2026
5 min readHackathon, 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 · 8 April 2026
6 min readHow to run an AI strategy workshop that isn't a waste of timeEvery company wants an AI strategy. Most approach it with a town hall and a consultant deck. Neither produces decisions.Giovanni · 5 April 2026
5 min readHow to plan an annual company event people actually look forward toThe annual company event has a reputation problem. Here's how to move from passive presentations to something people genuinely remember.Giovanni · 30 March 2026
5 min readWhat makes a leadership retreat worth the time and budgetLeadership 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 · 30 March 2026
5 min readWhat 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 · 30 March 2026
5 min readRunning an innovation workshop during post-merger integrationMergers 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 · 29 March 2026
6 min readDesign thinking for teams: a practical guideDesign 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 · 28 March 2026
5 min readHow to measure the ROI of a company off-siteCompanies spend real money on off-sites and workshops. Leadership asks for ROI. Here's a more honest framework than satisfaction surveys.Eraldo · 27 March 2026
6 min readHow to run a corporate hackathon that actually deliversMost 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 · 25 March 2026
5 min read7 corporate event ideas that work in LuxembourgLuxembourg is a small country with an outsized number of options for meaningful company events. Here's what works — and when.Eraldo · 24 March 2026
5 min readWhy 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 · 22 March 2026
5 min readWhat makes a great innovation workshop facilitatorYou 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 · 20 March 2026