You have a great company and fantastic staff, but it is a tough climate out there at the moment and many employees are looking for new challenges to keep them interested and motivated. So, what should you be doing to retain your top talent and get everyone working as a cohesive team? How can you make sure everyone stays motivated, interested and productive?
If one of your ideas is team building or corporate retreats, Hands Up Incentives has a fun and unique solution for you!
Types of Team building
Traditional team building involves some fun and abstract classroom exercises and/or some games to engage and inspire those involved. Perhaps there is even a scary ‘walking along a high wire’ trust element. These things can be fantastic to get everyone fired up, thinking and forging deeper connections with colleagues, but how long does that impact last?
Hands Up Incentives has a more unique and far more memorable solution. We will get your team involved in a community volunteering project that creates positive social and environmental change.
We offer real activities that make a real difference to peoples lives and provide your employees with real satisfaction. Once they leave the destination they can look back on their time with a sense of fulfilment.
Of course, if you also want to add a spot of tandem skydiving and a paper dragon folding competition, we can also arrange for that.
How does it work?
Well there are many different ways of creating a fresh new team building trip for your company and it will all depend on what you, your company and the team want to achieve.
- Perhaps you have a great sales team that has earned a break, but you also want them to learn and grow.
- Perhaps you have a few marketing people that are uninspired and would benefit from an inspiring new perspective.
- Perhaps the management team has skirted the economic turmoil, but is now lackluster and fatigued.
For each of these cases and many others we will create a unique solution
- You could just send the sales team on a nice little cruise with some fun activities and some relaxation. They would enjoy it, but would it leave an indelible mark on them? Will they have stories to tell, that they are proud of? Will they have a new found respect for their colleagues? Perhaps, but most likely not.
- What if they gave up a couple of days of that trip to go into a deprived local community in say India or Cambodia? Here they work alongside local builders and community members to complete a school or a new dormitory for an orphanage. The work isn’t arduous, but the memories and satisfaction it brings will last forever.
- The marketing team could sit around a white board reinventing the same ideas and strategies, but instead why not send them on the road to visit a fledgling volunteer project that has the potential to make a huge impact, but lacks the marketing expertise to get their messages out into the world.
- For example, assisting a women’s cooperative in Peru to refine their products, brand proposition, marketing and export strategy, in order to help raise their incomes and use their natural talents to escape poverty. Not only will your employees come back with new ideas and motivation, but they will want to continue to offer the women regular on going support.
- The exhausted execs could just go play a spot of golf and relax in a spa in Portugal, but that would probably not look so good on an expenses sheet and is unlikely to recharge their mental batteries. However, what if they ended up in Delhi working on a fascinating educational project that encourages the community to put time and effort back into growing education facilities, so that the children can make their way out of the poverty trap.
- The potential for knowledge exchange is enormous. Great business knowledge meets innovative low budget economy – the two combined have the power to create real social change.
- Then at the end of the day they could still squeeze in that round of golf and that spa treatment without fear of repercussions from the shareholders.
So, if you have a team that could do with some bonding, encouragement, reenergizing or just some inspiration, please contact us. We will provide you with a customized solution that will serve to inspire your team for the future.
