Last week we held our first ever Intercounty Conference for all of our personnel, which was organised by myself and Jon Cooke. The conference was held in Grantham which was chosen as it is situated half way between all of the Intercounty branches. The team building event was run over a two day period and was aimed at bringing all of the group together.
Every branch member had to split up and mix with other people from other branches to achieve the goals and tasks that we had set. On the first day we set up a work shop based on a real life scenario, where each group had to create a business marketing campaign. The teams came up with some fantastic ideas.
We also had a graffiti board, where everyone had to draw their thought about the company, we then talked about them and expanded them into great business ideas.
We posted pictures of the key personnel on to a board with various history quotes such as "my great, great grandmother was the daughter of a King' and everyone had to put the quote next to the photo of the person they thought this was relevant to. This was incredibly funny.
We wanted to gain feedback from all of the members so we had a post box where people could post their thoughts and opinions anonymously if they wanted to.
On the last day we split the groups up into small teams and we asked them to design and create costumes, which were then modeled by some of the group members.
We also had various guest speakers on the day, such as a representative from the website Zoopla, one of UK's leading market resource for a property finder to search property for sale, find houses and flats to rent.
Everyone loved the day so much that we have decided to make this an annual event, it was a really good way of bringing the whole group together. The feedback and ideas we received were very interesting and positive and we are going to take these on board and incorporate them into our future business strategies.
It also reiterated to myself and Jon how fantastic and professional our staff are across the whole of our 28 Intercounty branches.
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