Whats the cost to put together a strategic corporate meeting or retreat? Regardless of the specificshotel expenses, payroll, lost opportunities, lost management time planning the agenda, the cost of guest speakers, food, and suppliesyou expect the returns to far outweigh the $3000 or $150,000 bill.
Unfortunately, too many meetings never hit their mark. You start with specific goals and an agenda. You sit everyone down and start covering your list. However, somewhere the whole thing veers off course. Perhaps a guest speaker doesnt deliver the content you intended. Maybe a member of the group falls short with their sales presentation or operations report. Before you know it, youre at 72% of where you wanted to be, and you cant go up. Now youre stuck answering questions or offering solutions that werent part of your original agenda.
When the event is over, youre happynot elated. The whole thing wasnt a total loss. You rallied the troops, but didnt achieve objectives the way you had intended. Sales will rise, maybe by 20%, but they wont double the way you had hoped. You pay the bill and go home.
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