It is not good to find a company that hired a coach to pick up employees for a seminar, conference or simple social event, but who are already disappointed with the results.
Here we look at some common causes and their solutions.
Low turnout / invitation response
This is often frustrated in many organizations.
Ignoring mechanical causes (for example, a bad message about not reporting diversity or insufficient notification) is often explained as follows:
- low morale in the company;
- lack of interest in the event;
- (your event was scheduled at a time that is facing other things).
Discontent with the quality of transport
In the 21st century, professional people expect corporate transport to be modern and comfortable.
If the trainer's “old badger” arrives outside, then your session is already in trouble due to creating the wrong impression.
Get ready to spend some money here to get a comfortable bus with limousines.
Impact of privacy
Today, most people expect and demand a professional / personal balance of life.
Therefore, anticipate dissatisfaction and dissatisfied participants if they need to get up at 4 am to make the scheduled departure time and / or they will not return home until the early morning hours.
A luxury coach can help alleviate some of this due to the comfort while traveling, but this alone will not be the solution.
Impact of professional life
On a similar topic described above, asking people to return very late to their homes, expecting they to return to the office at 8 am and start firing at all the cylinders, is likely to become a recipe for poor health.
Providing or organizing snacks
If people were asked to get up unusually early and were on a carriage for a while, then this is really a good psychology for giving (or stopping) some snacks.
Small caffeine and increased calories can ensure that people arrive at a destination that wants to start, rather than get tired, dry out and look for reasons to complain.
Railroading
Ideally, your corporate event should be so desirable by nature that your collections should fight for the opportunity to participate.
Use only the “attendance is a must” approach as an absolute last resort, as mentioned earlier.
If you see a lack of interest and voluntary participation, something is wrong, and rethinking is required. People usually react badly to being forced to attend company events.
Relative to the wider world
Remember that a corporate event will be viewed by many against a much clearer background of the wider business with which you share your collections.
Therefore, expect a very negative reception for (for example) exercises to create a company team, which are held at a costly external facility, if only a few days before the company announces a reduction in core support benefits for employees due to current economic conditions.
