Planning an outstanding corporate retreat on the beautiful beaches of Cancun is a pleasure. So is getting your staff to agree to attend. One sure way to make your retreat an eagerly anticipated event for your whole staff is to build up enthusiasm for it all year long – but especially in the weeks leading up to the retreat. Here are three easy ways your HR department can do that.
1. Make Retreat Attendance A Team Reward
Healthy competition is a good way to encourage coworkers and team members to put their best foot forward. In fact, if your company consists of more than one team, having those teams compete for the prize of attending the annual retreat fosters healthy competition and team spirit before they ever leave the office.
2. Make Retreat Attendance An Annual Expectation
Teams who have something rewarding to look forward to work better together. When teams know the corporate retreat is an annual event, it creates an eagerness and anticipation that increases productivity, fosters year-long team spirit, and boosts office morale.
3. Let Retreat Attendance Bring Distant Teams Together
In today’s tech-savvy, digital office environment, it’s not uncommon for companies to have teams who are widespread – often, not even in the same state or country. When you bring distant team members together, you redefine ‘team’ and create a new kind of camaraderie by putting faces to names and making it easier for teams to work closely together, even when they’re far apart.
Corporate board members, executives, and marketers know the marketing appeal of urgency and rarity. HR departments can use these same tactics and strategies to draw team members to their corporate retreats. When you use the time between the announcement of the retreat and the day of departure to build anticipation, you create a sense of eagerness and team spirit that carries over into the team building activities of the big event.
When you assemble your team together in one place, take advantage of that opportunity to create team visibility that goes back to the office with you. Our team of videographers and photographers help further enhance your team building retreat with stunningly candid photos and videos. Smartphone cameras can’t mimic the human touch we bring to the photos of your corporate retreat. Our visual storytelling turns your Cancun experience into tangible emotional connections, cements friendships, and motivates and inspires your entire team.
