# The Alignment Day

> A facilitated full day for a leadership team that has stopped agreeing with itself. Named practitioner, structured pre-work, and a written outputs pack in the client's hands within five working days.

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- **Duration:** 9 hrs
- **Ideal start time:** 08:30 — the hard thinking happens before lunch, and this day is built around that
- **Departure window:** 08:00–09:00
- **Group size:** 12 min — 40 max
- **Emirate / venue:** Dubai or Abu Dhabi — 4★ hotel meeting suite, off the client's own premises by design
- **Season:** Year-round
- **Booking lead time:** 21 days — the pre-work interviews need three of them

## Price per person, excluding 5% VAT

| Group size | Per person | Billed for at least |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| 12–19 people | AED 890 | 17 people |
| 20–39 people | AED 740 | 23 people |
| 40+ people | AED 650 | — |

A group smaller than a band's "billed for at least" figure is still served, and is invoiced for that many people.
Where a larger band costs less in total, it is quoted instead: groups of 36–39 are billed as 40 people at the rate for 40+ people.

Payment: 50% advance on signature. 100% cleared 3 working days before the event. Numbers lock 7 days prior.

## Why this is not the retail version

There is no retail version of this, and that is exactly the problem the market has. The alternatives are a **training firm at AED 25,000–40,000 for a day**, which arrives with a fixed curriculum and leaves with a feedback form, or the client's own HR lead facilitating a room they are a political participant in — which is not facilitation, it is chairing.

The three things being bought here are **independence, pre-work and a written output.** The facilitator has spoken to six people confidentially before the day starts, so session one opens with what the room already knows and will not say. And the pack that lands five days later has named owners and named dates on it, which is the only artefact that survives contact with the following Monday.

**We do not sell a training curriculum and we should never be compared to one.** This is a decision day for a team that already knows its problem.

## Timeline

- **−14 days** — Pre-work begins. Facilitator interviews the sponsor and 4–6 participants, one to one, confidential
- **−3 days** — Design locked. Sponsor sees the agenda and the framing, not the interview content
- **08:30** — Transfer from client office. Arrival, coffee
- **09:00** — Opening — the sponsor frames why the day exists. Ten minutes, and it is not delegated
- **09:20** — Session one: what we actually disagree about. Themes from the interviews, anonymised, put on the wall
- **10:45** — Break
- **11:00** — Session two: the trade-offs. Structured decision work on the two or three real forks
- **13:00** — Lunch
- **14:00** — Session three: commitments. Named owner, named date, named first step for each
- **15:45** — Break
- **16:00** — Session four: how we work. Operating agreements — meeting cadence, escalation, decision rights
- **17:00** — Close. Photograph of the commitment wall before anything is taken down
- **17:30** — Transfer back
- **+5 days** — Outputs pack delivered — commitments, owners, dates, operating agreements, wall photography

## Included

- Return transfer from client office
- Confidential pre-work — sponsor briefing plus 4–6 one-to-one participant interviews
- Bespoke programme design against what the interviews surface
- Senior facilitator for the full day — a named independent practitioner, introduced to the sponsor before contracting
- Hotel day delegate package — meeting suite, AV, two breaks, lunch
- Full materials, wall stock and capture
- Branded welcome setup
- Photographer, half day
- Written outputs pack within 5 working days — commitments with owners and dates, operating agreements, wall photography
- Event coordinator on site

## Not included

- Psychometric or profiling instruments (see add-ons)
- Follow-up sessions or coaching (see add-ons)
- Overnight accommodation
- 5% VAT

## Weather and backup plan

- **Trigger:** None — fully indoor, no outdoor content.
- **Fallback:** Facilitator illness is the real risk, and it is covered by a contracted named backup who is briefed on the pre-work from day one, not called on the morning. Venue failure moves to a contracted alternate hotel inside the same district.
- **You are told by:** Immediate, by phone to the sponsor, with the backup facilitator introduced before the day proceeds. The sponsor decides whether to run or reschedule — we do not.

## Customisation options

- Psychometric or profiling instrument with group debrief: AED 180/person
- 90-day follow-up session, half day: AED 6,500/event
- Individual coaching, per participant, 3 sessions: AED 4,200
- Second facilitator for groups above 24: AED 3,800
- Extend to an overnight at C-01 or C-02: Priced on the retreat package
- Videographer + edited reel: AED 1,200
- Anonymous pre-day pulse survey with report: AED 2,400

## Questions about The Alignment Day

### How much does The Alignment Day cost per person?

AED 890 per person for 12–19 people; AED 740 per person for 20–39 people; AED 650 per person for 40+ people. All figures exclude 5% VAT. A group below a band's minimum chargeable size is billed at that minimum: 17 people in the 12–19 band, 23 people in the 20–39 band. Where a larger band costs less in total, it is quoted instead: groups of 36–39 are billed as 40 people at the rate for 40+ people.

### How long does The Alignment Day take, and when does it start?

9 hrs. Ideal start: 08:30 — the hard thinking happens before lunch, and this day is built around that. Departure window: 08:00–09:00.

### What is not included in The Alignment Day?

Psychometric or profiling instruments (see add-ons); Follow-up sessions or coaching (see add-ons); Overnight accommodation; 5% VAT. These are stated before enquiry rather than raised at invoice time.

### What happens to The Alignment Day if the weather turns?

Trigger: None — fully indoor, no outdoor content. Fallback: Facilitator illness is the real risk, and it is covered by a contracted named backup who is briefed on the pre-work from day one, not called on the morning. Venue failure moves to a contracted alternate hotel inside the same district. You are told: Immediate, by phone to the sponsor, with the backup facilitator introduced before the day proceeds. The sponsor decides whether to run or reschedule — we do not.

### How far in advance do we need to book The Alignment Day?

The booking lead time is 21 days — the pre-work interviews need three of them. Ramadan and December dates book out first.

## Read before you book

- [The best corporate event venue in Dubai, by purpose](https://offsyte.ae/blog/best-corporate-event-venue-dubai/): No venue in Dubai is the best one, only the right one for the job. Eight jobs a company event has to do, the venue each needs, and what it costs per person.
- [Renting an event venue in Dubai: what it really costs](https://offsyte.ae/blog/corporate-event-venue-hire-dubai/): The four ways Dubai venues charge for space, what a hire fee never includes, and how to turn any venue quote into a total you can compare at your headcount.
- [Start, stop, continue: examples for leadership teams](https://offsyte.ae/blog/start-stop-continue-leadership-offsite/): How to run a start, stop, continue exercise at a leadership offsite so it produces decisions rather than a wall of sticky notes — with worked examples.
- [An eight-week checklist for a UAE company event](https://offsyte.ae/blog/corporate-event-planning-checklist-uae/): Week by week from brief to follow-up, with the UAE gates that cannot be compressed — permits, engraving, group size lock and the deadlines that sit 14 days out.

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