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What are some pitfalls to avoid when planning an executive retreat or an executive team building session?
To ensure that you get value from the time and money invested in each session:
- Don't schedule your session on a Friday. Like it or not, focus will become a challenge as the day wears on.
- Don't splurge on food and accomodation and scrimp on facilitaion fees. You need an experienced facilitator to execute a session successfully.
- Do allocate more time for your session if your group is highly analytical. They need time to debrief and apply the session to your specific business challenges or they will leave feeling frustrated and that the session was a waste of time.
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Our organization is facing business contraints. How can we offer an executive or team building session within that is within the scope of our budget but still effective?
Try a simulation. For example, if you don't have the budget to go to Jamaica this year, we can simulate some of the key elements of a Jamaican getaway in your boardroom through accelerated learning. Our founder and President is Jamaican born and she has travelled extensively and worked with executives throughout Asia. Drawing on this experience and through the use of props and themes, we can easily simulate locations such Singapore, the Dubai Desert, Malaysia, and Bangkok. We also have many strategies to reduce your meeting room, refreshment and accomodation costs. Even if you don't use our team building services, we can offer you cost effective event planning, on-line or telephone consulting to recommend the best approach for your situation.
Our team has seen it all and we are getting bored by standard fare. Is there anything really unique that you can recommend?
Absolutely, why not try polo team building (we even a luxury desert safari and camel polo in Dubai) or take your team (of up to 35) to a Jamaican plantation for our powerful Island Survival: Marooned in Jamaica's Cockpit Country simulation. We can also custom design something unique for your team to reflect your organization's culture and realities.
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How do we go about requesting a quote or booking Executive Oasis International for an executive retreat or an executive team building session?
If you are not ready to make a decision and booke our services, you can submit a preliminary inquiry by e-mail through the links that are scattered throughout our site. For serious inquiries, click on the Request Quote or Contact Us tabs (or links) at the top and bottom of every page. You will have the option of contacting us by e-mail, on-line or telephone.
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What information does Executive Oasis International need in order to provide an accurate and timely quote for an executive retreat or executive teambuilding session?
By providing the following information when you contact us, we will be able to provide a timely quote and assist your organization in determining the best programme and approach to address your business needs:
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- Proposed Dates of Session
- Desired Length of Session
- Purpose of Session (i.e. business-related, recreational or a combination)
- Size of Group
- Objectives of Session
- Approximate Budget Range
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- Demographics of Group (occupation, degree of physical fitness, analytical vs. creative types)
- Key Business Challenges your
team and organization are facing
- Recent organizational and team changes
and how your team has reacted to them
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We will send you a quote and programme outlines. Location counting and planning the details of a session involves at minimum several hours and can take up to many days. Accordingly, if you require any of the following services as part of your decision-making process, here are our retainers:
Location Scouting: $750 Retainer (Deducted from total fee if engaged for session). No locations will be released or site inspections scheduled until this retainer has been paid.
Retainer Towards Event Planning Fee: $500 (Deducted from final invoice if engaged for session for group of more than 20.)
Retainer for Location Scouting & Event Planning Deposit: $1000 (Deducted from final invoice if engaged for session for group of more than 20.)
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Our Executive Retreats: More than an Event
Our step by step approach will guide you through the process of building a cohesive team. First, we will meet with you to uncover your business needs and challenges. Together, we will pinpoint the measurable results that you want to achieve. To ensure that our approach is a perfect fit for your team, we'll find out about your corporate culture, group dynamics and the interaction and learning styles of each team member. (Participant Profile and Mini Learning Styles Inventories are included. We can go a step further and add an interaction styles inventory or 360 degree feedback to the process.) Then, we will customize one of our existing executive retreats or team building sessions (or design a brand new session) to address your business challenges. If all you require is a one day executive retreat, we will still ensure that it is unique, memorable and tightly connected to the needs of your business. To get "buy in" from all team members, we will conduct a team briefing (or provide you with a presentation to brief your team) about the relevance of the executive retreats or team building sessions to YOUR business realities.
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Executive Oasis International is a Toronto (Canada) based consulting firm with a strong network of alliance partners in the Middle East (Dubai, Oman, Egypt), Jamaica, & Asia (Singapore, Malaysia).
Bringing us to destinations outside Toronto will involve air travel but it’s worth it. Please obtain approval for our air travel expenses into your budget BEFORE requesting a quote.
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