Highton Consultants
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Why You Should Plan A Team Building Retreat.

1. Employees are the foundation of any successful business. It’s therefore essential that your team is working effectively together. A team building retreat has a diverse range of benefits, all of which can be powerful methods of enhancing your businesses’ success and bringing your work teams together.

 

2. You can improve your team’s weaknesses and build on their strengths – no matter how strong your team is, there are always certain elements you can improve. With a team building retreat, you can specifically target areas for improvement, with a clear purpose, educational goals and specifically choosing certain team building activities that will develop these goals.

3. Be proactive – you might be able to see potential upcoming challenges within the team, in terms of relationships or communication. A team building retreat gives you the opportunity to shut the laptops and phones down and be completely proactive about the issues you’d like to work out.

4. Bring your remote team together – even if you have a team that’s working remotely, team building retreats can still be very effective. In fact, it’s the perfect opportunity to bring your long distance team together and help them bond as a team. When most of your team haven’t met each other before, they can feel a little disconnected – an annual or quarterly event helps to address this issue.

5. Motivation and job satisfaction – employees say that creating trust between staff and senior management influences job satisfaction? A retreat is the perfect opportunity to develop that bond between colleagues, whilst allowing time out of the office for your teams to become familiar with each other.

6. Investing in your team – most employees don’t actually believe their organisations are working together as effectively as they could be. That’s generally because most businesses aren’t investing in the right type of training and resources that will develop their teams. Organising retreats allows your business to really focus on valuable team building exercises.

 

7. Knock out boredom: Boredom saps motivation and reduces productivity. In order to maintain motivation at the office, keep things lively and new. 

 

We believe it's not about the money for most employees although it does help, job satisfaction is the key to a successful team and a growing business.

 

Highton’s clients come from many different sectors, businesses large and small and from all over the world. They have one thing in common: they tend to want to achieve something extraordinary. So do we.

 

What we do, we do everything.