If you are considering planning a corporate leadership retreat, welcome to Sugar Hollow Retreat!

A corporate retreat can be incredibly difficult to plan due to the limitations and issues of timing and work flow that arise when bringing co-workers together for this type of an event. There are some easy guidelines to follow when planning the retreat that can help to make it a more interesting and fruitful experience. 

The first thing you need to consider is what you are hoping to accomplish during your corporate retreat. Knowing what you expect from the corporate retreat can help to make sure that it is beneficial and is not pointless and confusing. Some may find that they want to hold a corporate retreat to simply boost company morale. Other companies may feel that they are lacking in certain departments, and that a retreat may help whatever that is. Whether it is a leadership retreat, a sales retreat, or a management retreat, a corporate retreat can help to improve those areas and help your employees to improve themselves. 

The second thing you need to consider for your corporate retreat is the actual setting of the retreat itself. Sugar Hollow Retreat offers a wide array of amenities and opportunities for your corporate retreat. Located 22 Miles North West of Boone, in Tennessee, there are a number of leisure activities to partake in close by and at our facility like walking trails, guided horseback trail rides, water activities (rafting canoes, tubes, etc), museums and shops to check out during the downtimes between your retreat sessions. Knowing the distance and amenities of your retreat area is incredibly important, as you need to work your schedule with the retreat area itself.  One of the great things about using Sugar Hollow for your next retreat is its private, and relaxed atmosphere. When a motel is used for a retreat, participants share the facility with others not a part of their group and feel like they are staying in a motel. At SHR, participants share a private lodge and guesthouses on 300 acres nestled in a natural mountain setting and are in a home away from home This atmosphere is more conducive to group interacting and attaining the goals of the retreat.  

Knowing the food situation with your retreat is incredibly important. For those going through a retreat, meal times offer a time for socialization and relaxation; giving your company’s workers time to relax can help to make them more productive during the business portion of the retreat. At Sugar Hollow, food preparation can also be a great team building exercise. Have your team members square off and see who can cook the best flapjacks, or get everyone involved in a simple spaghetti dinner. Not only does this help with the food costs of your retreat, it can be a lot of fun and a great way for your staff to get to know each other better. Not all aspects of a retreat have to revolve around business and being incredibly productive; choosing to work with extra, fun activities can help to boost moral for a corporate retreat and bring your employees closer together as a team.

Many retreats focus on teamwork as something that they would like to improve through a retreat. By throwing in interesting activities (in and out of the retreat), you can allow your workers to do so. A corporate retreat can be hard to plan and even harder to execute. Sugar Hollow Retreat has the amenities and resources that you need to plan a beneficial and productive corporate retreat.