Incentive Trips | Top Reasons to Host
Incentive Trips | Top Reasons to Host
BoomPop Team · 6/5/2024
With companies traveling in droves for experiential retreats, we at BoomPop understand the value of bringing colleagues together in person in unique environments as an investment into business growth.
We see this over and over again, clients coming back to us saying how much closer they feel to their colleagues, how much headway they made on their yearly planning, all the noise they were able to clear up with miscommunications and how they are already thinking of where they want to gallivant off to next!
Which has us thinking, how can we take the retreat experience one step further when it comes to incentivizing?
Not a retreat for a department, not a retreat for the executives and not a retreat for the entire company. A retreat for your top performers, your top earners, to look forward to. A way to further ignite the flame of motivation at the cultural level of your company!
Let’s discuss the implications of offering such a trip!
Motivation and Learning
Have you ever seen colleagues really rise to a challenge when presented with a clear and tangible goal? A goal that may have seemed out of reach until the directive came through? All of a sudden they want to show, not just to the company and their colleagues, but to themselves, that they can do this. They can push themselves and be proud of themselves by finding new and innovative ways to crush it at their job. They WILL be going on this trip!
And because of this new sense of motivation, you’ll find your colleagues reaching deep within themselves to be creative, to be savvy, to find solutions to their progress woes that they never found before. Because this tangible time bound goal with a beautiful reward to immerse in, will open up a part of them that is yearning to learn more and try more in a short period of time.
Your colleagues will not only be excited, but getting stronger within their roles and simultaneously creating a top performing team for your organization.
2. Experiential Buy-In
Imagine this, you have two options. You offer a cash bonus for the top performers within a given category, or you offer a yearly retreat of similar monetary value to your top performers. In both scenarios you will most likely see an increase of excitement from your colleagues.
Both are motivating, however, which one takes your dollar the furthest?
With the destination retreat, you are creating an experience that brings your colleagues closer together under the feeling of being a team.
The lead up to the retreat and enthusiasm will create a buzzing of energy as colleagues discuss the adventures they will get to go on together. Because you will plan something spectacular for them!
While the cash bonus is exciting on a personal level, maybe your colleagues could really use the money, it becomes a personal win with personal rewards. Where the retreat is a personal win, a group win, and a cultural win.
While there are infinite reasons that retreats are amazing for morale, communication, and moving the needle forward in your business, we encourage you to think about retreats as an incentive. A way to get your team pumped up while inadvertently giving back.
Feeling like an incentive trip is just what your team needs? Check out our next article on: Incentive Trip Locations Around the World! Our hotel experts at BoomPop curated some of our most spectacular places that will really WOW your top performers. If these places aren’t motivating, I don’t know what would be!
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