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10 Ways a Team Building Retreat Will Help Your Company

Let’s say there’s this young tech startup, we’ll call it Company X. From afar, they appear to be doing great.

They’ve grown quickly since their founding in 2010 and have expanded from five to seventy employees. The company has made a few necessary, but successful, pivots and their sales continue to grow. Unfortunately for Company X this isn’t the full picture. 

 

The main part of any company is its people. Zoom in a little closer, past the numbers, and you’ll see that Company X is struggling with poor employee engagement, an underperforming team, and lack of cohesion throughout the organization.

Aaron, their CEO, is at odds about what to do. He knows the already financially successful company could do so much more with an engaged team. 

 

On one hand he recognizes that his employees need a break. They’re overworked and not getting the support they need. On the other hand, he doesn’t want to distract his workforce from the progress they’ve made and the objectives they need to meet.

So, Aaron does some research. After many late-night Google searches he comes to realize that the symptoms his startup team is suffering from point to one of the greatest plagues of tech startups today, poor team culture.

Unsure about how to solve this problem, Aaron does a bit more digging. One of the solutions he finds is hosting an offsite team retreat.

At first glance the idea of a team retreat seems counter intuitive. If you pull your employees away from work are you actually going to solve any problems? Would employees be able to cope with the lost hours and juggle their workload while taking part in something new?

The answer is YES.

 

Why should I do a corporate retreat with my team? One word: results.

Team retreats, whether bi-annual, annual, or seasonal, create positive changes throughout the entire organization. They help develop an environment of employee and team engagement, enhance company culture, encourage team collaboration, and increase employee motivation and performance.  

And when you see stats like “. . . highly engaged teams show 21% greater profitability per year. . .” and “disengaged employees cost U.S. companies up to $550 billion a year. . .” it’s easy to see how team building retreats are the perfect solution to incoherent, stressed, and overworked workforce (Forbes). 

For further proof about the power of an offsite corporate retreat, continue to read about the 10 points of value that team retreats bring to startups and why your startup needs one ASAP. 👇

 

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