Top Tips for Group Incentives

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Top Tips for Group Incentives

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Top Tips For Group Incentives

The creation of any reward strategy begins with understanding the goals, culture and demographics of your organisation.

Reward and recognition programmes and constantly being considered by organisations as when your employees feel valued and rewarded, everyone benefits.

Incentive travel has come to the forefront in recent years as it allows organisations not only to reward outstanding performance but also to enhance team collaboration and drive positive behaviour towards achieving company goals and objectives.

Top Tip For Group Incentives

The creation of any reward strategy begins with understanding the goals, culture and demographics of your organisation.

Reward and recognition programmes and constantly being considered by organisations as when your employees feel valued and rewarded, everyone benefits.

Incentive travel has come to the forefront in recent years as it allows organisations not only to reward outstanding performance but also to enhance team collaboration and drive positive behaviour towards achieving company goals and objectives.

Understand What Drives Them

Before planning an incentive trip, understand what motivates the individuals likely to earn a spot. Different people are driven by different factors, so focus on the group’s demographic to design a programme that maximizes impact on team performance.

Set clear parameters to ensure everyone has a fair chance to succeed. For example, in a Sales team, success isn’t just about the number of sales but also their execution and processing. Consider related factors, such as training or qualifications, and establish balanced targets to maintain consistent performance across all key areas.

The Personal Touch

From the moment the qualifiers arrive they should feel like royalty. All communications should be personalised and if you can get Senior Executives to send a personal message to individuals it will go a long way.

Selection and briefing of the hosts is also key, they should know as many of the attendees as possible. For some, hosts making the effort to spend time with them on a personal level throughout the trip will be the most valued part of
the reward.

Outstanding Experiences

Every incentive trip should include outstanding money can’t buy experiences. When planning these trips, think outside the box rather than just including off the shelf experiences. Challenge your agency to find you something that you didn’t know existed to be included in the programme.

Always aim to surprise and delight – When people have been to the destination before the key is to dig deep into the destination and find the most unique thing in that city and try and get yourself private VIP access.

Choice

Coming back to the first point of understanding what drives individuals, offering choice within the programme is key. One size doesn’t fit all, and your employees will appreciate you seeing them as individuals.

This can easily be achieved by offering a series of optional activities as part of the programme. When doing so, choices should include something for everyone, a cultural experience, one for the adrenalin junkies, a relaxation experience and everything in between.

Leisure Time

Coming back to the first point of understanding what drives individuals, offering choice within the programme is key. One size doesn’t fit all, and your employees will appreciate you seeing them as individuals.

This can easily be achieved by offering a series of optional activities as part of the programme. When doing so, choices should include something for everyone, a cultural experience, one for the adrenalin junkies, a relaxation experience and everything in between.

The Moment

Having a crescendo moment where the contribution of the individuals are publicly recognised is always something we would recommend including.

This will make the individual feel valued, respected by their peers and proud of what they have achieved. In our experience this goes a long way to motivating them to be on the programme the following year!

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