# Winter blue sky thinking: Phiture’s offsite

- Link: https://phiture.com/blog/winter-blue-sky-thinking-phitures-offsite/
- Published: 2020-03-19T11:52:49+01:00
- Author: Emma Pressley

![phiture offsite gran canaria](https://phiture.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/phiture-
off-site-gran-canaria-1024x776.jpg)

Every year the team at Phiture likes to decamp to a different location to take stock
of the achievements of the previous year and spend more time together outside of
our Berlin office. Previous destinations have included various cities in Europe,
but this January, in a bid to beat the winter blues, we packed our laptops and snorkels
and headed off to the beautiful island of Gran Canaria for a serious vitamin D injection
and some poolside brainstorms.  

After an early start on Monday morning we headed straight out to sea to blow away
the cobwebs, enjoy a cold beer and reconnect after the end-of-year holidays. Having
shared a traditional Canarian lunch onboard some of us dared to take a dip in the
turquoise waters before heading back to our hotel next to the Maspalomas sand dunes.

![phiture off site gran canaria banana boat](https://phiture.com/wp-content/uploads/
2020/03/phiture-off-site-gran-canaria-banana-boat-1024x768.jpg)

On the second day, we were joined by long-time friend and collaborator of the company,
Thomas Petit, who gave a hilariously frank and thought-provoking talk about the 
current state of mobile growth and a look into the future.

A new location certainly has the ability to inspire new ideas so we took advantage
of the balmier climes to break off into groups and indulge in some blue-sky thinking.
The aim was for each group to flesh out a growth opportunity outside of their current
day-to-day work that they were passionate about. This should be pitched to the other
groups and then conceptualized over the next 6 months. Animated conversations continued
over team dinner that evening. 

![phiture off site gran canaria dunes](https://phiture.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/
03/phiture-off-site-gran-canaria-dunes-1024x1024.jpg)

We kicked off the last day of workshops with a retrospective of our accomplishments
in 2019 and a look ahead to the goals for Phiture in 2020. Each team dedicated time
to defining their own OKRs for the upcoming quarter, integrating the most popular
blue-sky projects into their goals for the next few months.

We spent the final evening making the most of the stunning location by walking across
the dunes to the beach, hitting the hotel sauna and sampling some of the local nightlife(
and dubiously named cocktails). 

We all left the island feeling fully recharged by not only the sunshine and cervezas
but also the exchanging of creative ideas and all round excellent company.