The best business conversations rarely happen in a boardroom. Away from screens and agendas, the golf course can be the ideal setting to talk strategy, scope out your next growth phase, or simply talk through operational pain points
Some of the best business decisions never happen in a boardroom. They happen somewhere quieter: over coffee, on a dog walk, halfway through a scaling-up plan you're chewing over with someone who isn't in your team. There's something about stepping away from the desk that makes people talk more honestly, and listen more carefully.
For our MD Gary, that place is a golf course.
Time away from the desk gives you space nobody else gets
A meeting is twenty minutes if you're lucky, usually interrupted by someone's phone. A few hours away from it, walking and talking with no agenda, tends to get further. You find out what's actually keeping someone up at night, not the polished version they'd give in an email.
No screens, no pressure, no pitch
Nobody wants to be sold to mid conversation, and that's exactly why it works. Away from the laptop and the ticket queue, conversations about the business tend to happen naturally rather than on a schedule: what's changed, what's coming up, where the gaps are. It's the same thing we try to bring to the day job. AnyIT was built on connection, not contracts, and on genuinely getting to know the local businesses we support rather than just fixing what breaks. A round of golf is just that, played out on grass instead of over a support ticket.
It's not just theory. Some of our best client relationships started this way, over a round rather than a proposal. And more than one useful bit of work has come out of an offhand comment on the back nine rather than a support ticket.
Fancy a round?
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AnyIT is a managed IT service provider based in Needham Market, Suffolk, trading since 2005. Call 01449 798088, email info@anyit.com or use our contact page.
Managed IT support is £85 per seat per month with a £400 monthly minimum. We support 200+ Suffolk businesses since 2005, deliver 99.9% uptime and commit to a 30-minute first response for major incidents with 24/7 monitoring.