1. Address and resolve problems in how the team works together, and how it works with its major stakeholders.
2. Focus on project review & approval process as well as behaviours and attitudes (principally issues around trust, cooperation and communication).
3. Agree specific action plans as well as roles & responsibilities on a team and individual level.

An off-site meeting for 2 days and 2 nights in an exclusive estate approximately 1 hour north of Madrid. (The “La Arena” estate is INFOVA’s High Performance Executive Development centre, equipped with indoor and outdoor facilities for meetings, training and experiential exercises, as well as food & accommodation).

Mixture of outdoor experiential activities, indoor group workshops and team presentations and discussions. Activities included a gourmet dinner prepared by one Spain's youngest chefs, Julius Bienert.

• Group Director of Engineering of the UK Aeronautical multinational and CEO of the Spanish Aeronautical Engineering Company.
• 5 Directors from both companies, representing the major stakeholders of the joint team.
• Guest Speaker: Explorer & Mountaineer – José Carlos Tamayo. A talk and presentation of Sir Earnest Shackleton’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in which his ship “the Endeavour” was trapped and eventually crushed by polar ice. José-Carlos, who retraced his steps and re-lived this epic journey of survival, relates how Shackleton was able to convert a disaster into what is probably one of the world greatest examples of leadership, courage and trust in the most adverse of conditions.
• Guest chef: Julius Bienert is one of Spain's youngest and most well known chefs. At the age of 24 Julius has already published a best-selling recipe book and has a TV show. His cooking is imaginative, surprising and presented with passion. Dinner was a resounding success.

The joint team focussed initially on analysing what went wrong in the previous project and how the current process was limiting their performance. The focus then changed to developing and agreeing a new joint process, and a plan for jointly managing their key stakeholders.

The meeting was most productive and memorable: the joint team left with the basic ingredients for a new joint process and specific action plans. Within a few weeks the efficiency of the process and communication between the two teams had improved substantially.