Organising corporate retreats can be invaluable for enabling your employees to bond in a face-to-face setting. The benefits can be especially strong if these employees usually work in segmented teams based in disparate locations. However, the venue that you choose can prove crucial to your retreat’s success.
It is imperative that the venue you select ticks an array of particular boxes – and an unorthodox choice of venue can do so especially well. Here are several reasons why CHÂTEAU BOUFFÉMONT has strong merit.
Your workers can relieve stress resulting from day-to-day tasks
Sometimes, employees can become so preoccupied with their daily routines that they don’t give themselves sufficient time to step back and take in the bigger picture of their firm’s future.
However, allowing your workers to retreat to the Château can afford them the time to do exactly this. With the building set amid Montmorency Forest and spectacular manicured gardens, the members of your team can be spared irritating distractions while they put together their new game plan.
There’s the opportunity to explore somewhere new
Often, we travel for leisure purposes because it lets us explore exciting new places. A corporate retreat at a significant distance from a familiar setting can also psychologically benefit your workers, as Inc. reveals – but where can you find interesting but unchartered territory?
The answer: right here at Château Bouffémont. Your staff can spend time admiring the refined decor and beautiful fabrics of the stone-built residence, which includes five grand reception halls and nine suites.
Château Bouffémont is easy to reach
Despite what we have urged about choosing a venue that will enable a fresh and unexpected experience, settling for a venue in an overly obscure location can prove counterproductive. You have to consider, for example, how easily your employees will be able to make the journey.
Fortunately, you can enjoy the best of both worlds at the chateau – as, despite its secluded setting, it remains just 30 kilometres from central Paris and 20 minutes from Charles de Gaulle Airport.
You can escape the office in more ways than one
While it is standard practice to hold retreats in staid conference rooms, you are not obliged to follow this practice yourself. In fact, it could hinder your team’s attempts to think creatively, Inc. implies.
You wouldn’t reap maximum returns from a retreat if you took your workers away from an office, to merely somewhere else that feels like an office. Fortunately, the chateau, with its aristocratic charm and magnificent heritage features, can spare you a ‘work from work’ feeling.
There’s a pleasing scope for spontaneity
In a Fox News article, Janet Fallon of the Washington, D.C.-based public relations company PR Options advises that those organising a corporate retreat forgo a bland space in favour of a “visually busier, interesting space to get the creative juices flowing”. Your staff could be easily kept busy themselves at the chateau.
Opportunities here for playing golf and tennis and trying dancing or cooking help to explain why Château Bouffémont is perfect for a corporate retreat – and our own chateau, especially so. For more information on how Château Bouffémont can help organise your corporate retreat or to download a brochure, click here.
