"We have noticed an improvement in morale, but more importantly business results as the staff are now focussed towards succeeding in an economic downturn." 

Can you justify running an event in these tough financial times? What is appropriate? What will the perception be? What will the ROI be? These are all valid questions. Of course we would say this is one of the most important times to generate loyalty, motivate teams and make an impact, we're an events specialist...

But on a serious level though, the feedback from our clients is that one to one marketing is more important than ever. Meeting clients face to face, nurturing relationships, spoiling them and keeping your business at the forefront of their mind is imperative moving forward. A quote from a recent event we ran... "This enabled us to spend quality time with the clients and build strong personal relationships. We have managed to expand activities with these clients, even through difficult economic times."

With redundancies in the news nearly daily, job insecurity on a day to day level is at its highest for many years. Some of the symptoms we are hearing about at the moment are: tired employees who are scared to leave on time for fear of it reflecting badly on them, people clearly focussing on there own targets primarily as oppose to the whole team or company's objectives, people attending work who are poorly as they daren't be off sick. I think we all agree that this atmosphere doesn't bring the best out in our biggest asset, our employees. Team building really can make a difference as one of our clients recently told us following an event we ran for them..click here to read more