By Tara Knudson Carl, Director of Operations
When is the last time you brought your team away from the workplace to rejuvenate, team-build, or focus on long-term planning?
It can be difficult to tear yourself and your team away from day-to-day priorities and work that needs to be done. However, planning retreats are very important, both for your organization and for your employees!
Remaining in the same work environment day after day can lead to complacency and decreased quality of work.
In the office, it’s easy to lose focus of long-term goals and vision when there are a million things that need to be done.
Pulling your team out of their normal working environment can reinvigorate their imagination and spark creativity, and can help an organization to focus on specific goals, projects, and strategic planning.
A change of scenery can assist team members to look at problems from a fresh perspective, facilitating new ideas and allowing strategies to emerge.
An organizational retreat offers time to break down barriers among employees and teams through discussion and socializing.
Adding some relaxing activities like hiking or gathering around a firepit to the schedule can help your team destress from work while further developing relationships, enabling them to return to work with a refreshed frame of mind.
According to Keith Mackenzie with Inside HR, “Employees will return to offices on a similar wavelength of energy, tired but energized, and potentially more engaged in upcoming projects because of that strengthened bond with each other.”
Whether you need a break from the mundane activity at the office or decide to launch a major project or new strategic plan, business retreats are excellent initiators of productivity and community.
Next time your organization needs to recharge, consider a business retreat and host it at our Carol Joy Holling Center or Sullivan Hills Camp!
From small and intimate to large and roomy, from high comfort to the rustic outdoors, we’ve got a space to suit your needs.
We will help you accomplish your goals by providing the best hospitality around.
We hope to see you soon!
