Pre/post-event NPS survey
A questionnaire in 9 languages 48 hours before and 14 days after the offsite. A clean report with the trend and a cross-functional cut — ready for the board.
For HR / L&D
Sailing team building for HR and L&D.
A format for L&D teams that need to defend a budget with numbers, not feelings. Pre/post NPS, a correlation with retention, multicultural facilitation and a board-ready narrative — all in one package.
Your headache
Five stories we hear every week.
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Defend next year's L&D budget — you need to show the board a measurable ROI, not 'the team had a good time'.
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Lift post-event NPS and engagement without the usual country-hotel offsite that staff have already sat through three times.
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Tie the offsite to retention metrics — cut voluntary attrition among key senior staff by at least a year.
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Agree formats for a multicultural team: RU/EN/ES/DE with different cuisines, different expectations and different comfort zones.
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Close out compliance: GDPR DPA, insurance, accessibility needs, dietary restrictions — without a rush of emails the week before departure.
How we solve it
An L&D project, not a tourist trip.
We build the offsite as a product: a brief, a sprint plan, an owner at every stage. Before the start we sit down with the HR director for 90 minutes and work through the pre-event survey, the retention baseline and the target attendee profile. Then comes a workshop with the facilitators where we frame three learning outcomes we will measure later. This is not 'the team went to Croatia', it is 'a leadership development programme with a flagship event on the water'.
Classic L&D practices are built into the format: a 360 debrief after the race, Kolb-cycle retrospectives, conflict-resolution cases. They are run by certified facilitators (ICF/IAF), not by deckhands. In parallel we keep the multicultural nuances under control: facilitation runs in two languages at once, kosher/halal/vegan menus are the default, and the accessibility checklist for the marina infrastructure is collected at the brief stage.
After the offsite you receive three reports: a post-event NPS in 9 languages within 14 days, an engagement read at 90 days using a Gallup Q12 lite, and a retention correlation at 6 and 12 months via an anonymous identifier on your HRIS side. Plus a ready board presentation in your brand book: participant quotes, the trend in your metrics, budget against an EU benchmark. That is the L&D-budget-defending narrative you came for.
What you get
Five deliverables in the standard package.
Retention correlation report
We link offsite participants to your HRIS extract via an anonymous identifier. At 6 and 12 months we send the cut: voluntary attrition, internal mobility, eNPS.
L&D certificate for participants
A certificate of participation in a leadership programme on a yacht (24 hours of facilitation) — valid for PDU/CPD records and individual development plans.
Multicultural facilitation kit
Certified facilitators working in two languages at once, kosher/halal/vegan menus by default, an accessibility checklist for the marina infrastructure.
A ready narrative for the board
A presentation in your brand book: participant photos, key quotes, the NPS trend, budget against benchmark — within 14 days of the offsite.
Metrics
The numbers you take to the board.
+28
average NPS lift after an offsite
95%
of staff recommend the format to colleagues
r=0.42
correlation with 12-month retention
Cases
What HR directors achieved.
A tech scale-up — leadership offsite, Croatia
The HR director wanted to replace the annual country retreat with a format staff would genuinely remember. Twelve months on, attrition in the senior team had fallen by 4 percentage points.
FinTech Series-B — onboarding week, Greece
A new cohort of 18 senior hires — a facilitated week on the water with the C-suite. Six months on, 17 of the 18 were still with the company.
FAQ for HR
What HR teams ask most often.
How many weeks of lead time?
The standard lead time is 8-12 weeks from the first brief to departure. For large groups (60+), 4-5 months is comfortable. Rush requests inside 4 weeks are possible, but the fleet choice narrows.
How do you measure ROI for the L&D budget?
Three layers: pre/post NPS (a survey in 9 languages), engagement at 90 days (Gallup Q12 lite), retention at 6 and 12 months (via an anonymous ID on the HRIS side). All three reports are included in the standard package.
What about dietary restrictions and accessibility?
By default: kosher/halal/vegan/gluten-free. Accessibility: marina access for mobility needs, a low-vision menu, a sign-language coordinator on request. We ask for this at the brief, not the week before departure.
Does the format suit a multicultural team?
That is our core case. Facilitation in two languages at once, cross-cultural ice-breakers (no banya, no beer fest), neutral cuisine. Of 247 offsites delivered, 89% were multicultural.
Do we get photos and video for internal communication?
Yes. A professional photographer is included in the base package (300+ edited photos within 7 days), a 60-90 second video reel within 14 days. We comply with GDPR: signed consent from every participant at the briefing.
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A tailored brief in your language, hand-built by our European charter team. No automated quotes, no off-the-shelf packages — one human on the line within a day.
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