If you’re working across time-zones and have a team offshore and another onshore, working asynchronously can be an immense advantage. You can sequence your inception sessions in a way that the team in each time-zone facilitates on alternate days. That way, each team has the time to synthesise the outputs from their workshops without worrying about running the next set of sessions. It can be the perfect baton pass. 

If you’re all offshore, and you have a strong facilitator on the client side, you can orchestrate the baton pass by even asking clients to anchor some sessions. We’re all one team, remember? For consultants who’re used to doing it all by themselves, this may seem like an unrealistic utopia. Then again, if you simplify the workshops by organising inputs asynchronously, you can de-skill facilitation in a big way.