Travel “On Barter” An Excellent Way To Build Your Company’s Cohesiveness
May 25th, 2007 · by Bob Meyer · No Comments
Companies of every size are searching for the maximum yield on their expenditures. Such companies are aiming for a tighter alignment within their organization by re-evaluating priorities, readjusting qualifications and integrating more education.
And, there’s a new understanding of how they can use incentive travel to its full potential—as an investment, not just a reward.
Incentives With A Purpose
As companies downsize and work to be more productive, people are working under more stress as they try to cram more work into their days.
According to experts, one way for the company to make itself recession-proof is to get more creative by taking people out of their work environment. In other words, now is the time to use travel incentives more than ever.
It’s a way to keep your people motivated in a pressured time, so they don’t “stress-out” or leave your company.
An incentive travel program, “incentives with a purpose” can do just that—bring your company’s best together into one unique environment where you then recognize their obvious efforts and celebrate their excellence, in addition to integrating education and stressing your company priorities.
Such a program will see the mornings spent in brainstorming and training sessions that are fun, challenging and creative. This will not be a typical incentive vacation, and that’s made clear from the start.
But companies adopting such a program maintain that the new philosophy pays off. They claim that the best gift you can give people is to let them use their minds. And at the same time they’ll be building company cohesiveness.
Check with your exchange to see what forms of travel they can provide your company.
If you are looking for a barter company to work with, see bottom of right-hand column, Top Resources” and click on barter companies.
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